Polylang multilingual plugin incompatibility

Hi Esal,

We ran into exactly the same problem today. Fortunately there is a fix. The PageBuilder stores its information in custom fields, so the easy solution is to go to the polylang settings panel and turn off synchronization for custom fields.

If you have other custom fields attached to your posts you will need to do some more work, to manually sync those fields you added yourself. This requires hooking in on filters from polylang.

Alternatively you may be able to explicitly prevent the page_builder custom field(s) from being synchronized. We’re probably going to give that a try later today.

Regards,
Wouter van Dam

Thanks Wouter!
I disabled the sync for custom fields and it did the trick. I am truly grateful for your help as this has spared me from huge frustration =)

Thanks for helping out Wouter. I’ll make note of this in the Page Builder docs. I’m not nearly as familiar with multilingual plugins as I should be.

You’re welcome.

Here is the code we’re using now to specifically filter out the meta field for the page builder.

/**
	 * Filter the meta values that are synced between translated posts
	 *
	 * @since	18 Oct 2013
	 * @version	1.0
	 * @param	$metas 	an array of post metas
	 * @param	$sync 	false when copying metas to a new translation, true when synchronizing translations
	 * @return	Filtered array of post metas
	 */
	public function filter_copied_post_metas($metas, $sync)
	{
		if ($sync) {
			if(($key = array_search('panels_data', $metas)) !== false) {
			    unset($metas[$key]);
			}
		}

		return $metas;
	}
add_filter('pll_the_languages', 'filter_the_languages', 10, 2)

Thanks for this solution, I had the same problem.

Can It work with QTranslate then?

@solinx

I have the same problem.

Could you tell me where (in detail) I can paste this code?

You could put the code at the bottom of the functions.php file of your theme.

Be sure to remove “public” from “public function …”, unless you know what PHP Classes are and will place the code within a class.

@maplewang:
No, this is specifically for the polylang plugin.

Hi Folks,

I’m having a similar issue and surely I’m just overlooking something:
Running Vantage and Polylang works really good. I get both pages and posts translated as well as the respective menüs. Switching between languages works already.

However what does not work is translating widgets and, even more severe, the custom vantage homepage (i.e. the initial page being loaded). They stay the same even so I have changed between languages in the top panel of the wordpress admin interface. It seems impossible right now to save two language versions of the custom homepage and of typical widgets like “pages” which I use for navigation the page footer.

I also unchecked all custom field sync as explained above. The code snipplet provided seems to refer to posts only – this however is not my problem.

Any help is greatly appreaciated since I have to be live with the english site in a few days.

Thanks a lot in advance!

Best
Florian

@florian any succes with it? I’m experiencing exactly the same problem.

Any solution would be awesome!