Reply To: Use ACF as multilanguage solution

• John Huebner

• July 3, 2015 at 8:51 am

WPML is supposed to be the best multilingual plugin available, but like you I’m not completely sold on it.

In order to have a site with multiple languages you’ll need to have some setting that is global to tell what language the site is supposed to be displaying. I would use this variable. I would also stick with standard language codes like “en”, “fr”, “es”, etc. I would then name all of my fields consistently using that as either a prefix of suffix to my field name.

You could then create a function something like the following. This is just a quick idea. In reality I’d more than likely make this a filter or something more complicate because this does not account for all the details, but it would work.

function get_multilingual_field($field_name) {
    global $language;
    $value get_field($field_name.'_'.$language);
    if (!$value) {
        // no value returned for language
        // get the default
        $value = get_field($field_name);
    }
    return $value;
}