Home page sections still English please help!

Hi!

Have a look at https://polylang.wordpress.com/documentation/documentation-for-developers/the-wpml-language-configuration-file/

thanks for this, I will need to study this code, to get that to work with my site.

I have had a friend look at the setup I have, he has gave me some feedback which I will post below.
Foreword: I have no background with PHP and WordPress, the following solutions are likely to be a complete hack but up to a certain point it worked…
The theme being used is the Inkthemes – Bizway theme with the Polylang plugin.
The primary task is to make 8 fields on the home page modifiable based on the language (so that the user can change the values in the WordPress Dashboard, under Settings > Languages > Strings translation). To make the fields available, I added the following method calls to the end of the themes functions.php file:
pll_register_string(‘Main Title’, ‘Main Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Secondary Title’, ‘Secondary Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature One Title’, ‘Feature One Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature One Description’, ‘Feature One Description’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature Two Title’, ‘Feature Two Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature Two Description’, ‘Feature Two Description’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature Three Title’, ‘Feature Three Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Feature Three Description’, ‘Feature Three Description’);

If you have any suggestions as to where these calls should be placed instead please let me know. After uploading the altered functions.php file, I checked the ‘Strings translation’ section and all of the fields are available.
After confirming the fields were available, I then modified the page template (front-page.php) so that the values in the ‘Strings translation’ section of the site will appear on the page based on the selected language, The code looks like this:

<h1><?php echo stripslashes (pll__(‘Feature One Title’)); ?></h1>

The above example works as expected, this is the case for 6 out of 8 of the registered strings. The two that fail to work are ‘Main Title’ and ‘Secondary Title’. The code for those looks like the following (exactly the same but only different parameters):

<h1><?php echo stripslashes (pll__(‘Secondary Title’)); ?></h1>

What happens in this case is that ‘Secondary Title’ gets displayed in the browser, ie the parameter passed in. I can change that to anything (eg Secondary Titleaaaa) and that’s what gets displayed. This leads me to believe that the pll__ method call is unable to find the two fields I indicated above, despite those fields appearing in the ‘Strings transformation’ page.
I have tried many variations on the names since I thought the names might have been too generic and there was a conflict somewhere; I’ve even tried random strings of characters for the name but to no avail. I’ve tried switching around the pll_register_string() calls and I’ve tried commenting them all out apart from the Main Title and Secondary Title ones, this is having no effect.

It’s just to update this to let you know I’ve resolved the issue, the front-page.php calls for both the main title and the secondary title

<h1><?php echo stripslashes(pll__('Main Title')); ?></h1>
    <?php if (pll__('Tagline') != '') { ?>
        <h2><?php echo stripslashes(pll__('Secondary Title')); ?></h2>
    <?php } else { ?>

these must match the following within the functions.php for them to be linked correctly and if you compare to the previous code I posted there is an extra bit on the end to define the group.

pll_register_string(‘Main Title’, ‘Main Title’, ‘Main Title’);
pll_register_string(‘Secondary Title’, ‘Secondary Title’, ‘Secondary Title’);