Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin v1.0.0 WPML Categories Support Bugs

Found a couple of bugs in version 1.0.0.

Under “Content Types +/-”
“All Archives – Page 1 Only”
“All Archives – Pages 2,3,4…”

The above two tick boxes do nothing (broken). I put the code for the two All Archives (catchall for all categories, tags, search…..) in the wrong place. Was easy to fix, will be in the v1.1.0 update.

When the WPML Language Plugin is active and Posts/Categories have been translated there’s an issue under “Categories +/-“.

In my v1.0.0 testing (localhost testing) I think I setup the language translations of my test Posts in a ‘manual’ way. I’ve since obtained a test site at https://display-widgets-seo-plus.compatibility.wpml.org/ under the WPML Go-Global Program.

Under the WPML Go-Global test site I converted a test Post using the Duplicate option (under the original Posts Edit screen) which duplicates the Post and the Categories the Post is in to the languages duplicated: note after doing this edit the new language Categories names otherwise the language duplicates have the same name as the original Category under “Categories +/-” (makes it looks like you have duplicate Categories).

After ticking Categories (under “Categories +/-“) the ticked Categories aren’t always saved (after clicking the “Save” widget button) and when the “Categories +/-” form is reopened, only Categories from one language is shown. Reloading the “Appearance” > “Widgets” page shows all the Categories again, but the ticked Categories aren’t always saved.

Have a temporary work around for when you want to select Categories from multiple languages (under “Categories +/-“) and they aren’t saving. If for example you have a German Category that when ticked isn’t saving, under “Appearance” > “Widgets” change languages to German (there’s a dropdown language flag selector in the Admin bar). When in the German language, select the German Categories you want to tick and save the widget. Repeat for other languages where a ticked Category won’t save.

The WPML Plugin modifies the default WordPress get_categories() function so it doesn’t get all Categories: when WPML is active get_categories() only gets the Categories from the specific language the user is under.

To create the list of ALL Categories under “Categories +/-” I temporarily disabled the WPML modification of the get_categories() function, I guess something has gone wrong here: works when first loading a widget, but upon saving it seems to revert back to the selected language the user is viewing.

Working on a fix.

Was pretty much ready to release v1.1.0 of the Display Widgets SEO Plus Plugin when I found the above issues, v1.1.0 adds BuddyPress and bbPress plugin support. Current plan is the next update (v1.1.0) will include the new BuddyPress and bbPress support and fix the WPML ticked Categories saving issue.

David