Hi there,
I thought this must be possibly by just switching languages, but apparently it doesn’t:
I have a (non-translated, i.e. each language ‘fills’ the same options fields) options field group, and referencing those fields e.g. in a footer does work neatly – it pulls the right version of the option on every language. As soon as I try to get a specific language’s field it still always returns the current language’s field content.
For example:
I use do_action( 'wpml_switch_language', 'de' ); to switch language to ‘de’. Normally, after that switch I should be able to grab fields from that specific language, no? Or retrieve a custom field for that very page I am on, but it still only gets data from the active language.
Is there something wrong in my thinking? I have read all the other related posts, but to no avail. Since my options page is old (the project is), I didn’t strive to translate it, so I have identical option field names in all languages.
There is a topic here that may help you, it deals with the default language, but I think it can be used to set any language before getting a field https://support.advancedcustomfields.com/forums/topic/get-option-from-wpml-default-language/
Hey John, thanks for the link (and sorry for the delay in responding)! Is there a way via acf_get_setting to not only get the current or default language, but a language of choice?
What I actually need and am working on is a foreach loop through all WPML languages and the retrieval of a specific field from the options for each of the languages, to be exact.
Thank you in advance!
ciao physalis
i had the same issue just now, using do_action( 'wpml_switch_language', $language ); to change language in an ajax call. but acf options was always returning the ‘original’ language, that was loaded on the inital load.
i now also added this right after the do_action call:
add_filter('acf/settings/current_language', 'jnz_acf_set_language');
and here is the corresponding function:
function jnz_acf_set_language() {
return apply_filters( 'wpml_current_language', null );
}
this sets the acf language to the current language, but you could also simply return ‘en’ or whatever you prefer..
