Internationalization in Lite Mode

• Thomas

• October 7, 2013 at 10:50 am

First of all I have to say that ACF is my favorite plugin and I want to thank Elliot for his great work.

Here’s my scenario and question: I have build a WP Theme that I will offer as a premium theme. This theme will be translation ready. In the theme there are some Custom Post Types and the metaboxes are created with ACF and ACF is used in Lite Mode.

The labels of the fields and the field instructions are entered in english. But if a user want to use the theme in another language he will see this in the post editor still in english in contrast to the other strings.

Is there any way to translate the label and the field instructions as well?

Thanks for any ideas
Thomas

• Elliot

• October 7, 2013 at 4:10 pm

Hi @Thomas

Yes, in your exported field data, you can wrap the field labels with the __(‘string’, ‘domain’) function

This will allow you to translate the string in your theme

I will be auto adding this function to the export data in the next version.

Thanks
E

• geoffberger

• July 13, 2014 at 3:00 pm

Along those same lines, I’m doing something similar where I have the exported field group in php – via the advanced-custom-fields-wpcli plugin, but how do you import the php file so the translations work as intended?

By the way, here’s the exported php field group:

<?php
$group = array (
  'id' => '53c211e33c2db',
  'title' => __('Example Field Group', 'mytheme'),
  'fields' =>
  array (
    0 =>
    array (
      'key' => 'field_53c211bcd1dbc',
      'label' => __('Example Field', 'mytheme'),
      'name' => 'example_field',
      '_name' => 'example_field',
      'type' => 'text',
      'order_no' => 0,
      'instructions' => '',
      'required' => 0,
      'id' => 'acf-field-example_field',
      'class' => 'text',
      'conditional_logic' =>
      array (
        'status' => 0,
        'rules' =>
        array (
          0 =>
          array (
            'field' => 'null',
            'operator' => '==',
          ),
        ),
        'allorany' => 'all',
      ),
      'default_value' => '',
      'placeholder' => '',
      'prepend' => '',
      'append' => '',
      'formatting' => 'html',
      'maxlength' => '',
      'field_group' => 72,
    ),
    1 =>
    array (
      'key' => 'field_53c211c3d1dbd',
      'label' => __('Example Text Area', 'mytheme'),
      'name' => 'example',
      '_name' => 'example',
      'type' => 'textarea',
      'order_no' => 1,
      'instructions' => '',
      'required' => 0,
      'id' => 'acf-field-example',
      'class' => 'textarea',
      'conditional_logic' =>
      array (
        'status' => 0,
        'rules' =>
        array (
          0 =>
          array (
            'field' => 'null',
            'operator' => '==',
          ),
        ),
        'allorany' => 'all',
      ),
      'default_value' => '',
      'placeholder' => '',
      'maxlength' => '',
      'rows' => '',
      'formatting' => 'br',
      'field_group' => 72,
    ),
  ),
  'location' =>
  array (
    0 =>
    array (
      0 =>
      array (
        'param' => 'post_type',
        'operator' => '==',
        'value' => 'post',
        'order_no' => 0,
        'group_no' => 0,
      ),
    ),
  ),
  'options' =>
  array (
    'position' => 'normal',
    'layout' => 'no_box',
    'hide_on_screen' =>
    array (
    ),
  ),
  'menu_order' => 0,
);