Translating custom taxonomy labels with WPML

Hi,

This is David from the WPML compatibility team. We received a report in our support forum about translating custom taxonomy labels and we’d like to share the solution with you.

It requires 2 steps:

1) Add a file called wpml-config.xml to the root folder of your plugin:

<wpml-config>
  <admin-texts>
    <key name="woof_settings">
      <key name="custom_tax_label">
        <key name="*"/>
      </key>
    </key>
  </admin-texts>
</wpml-config>

This tells WPML which settings require translation.
You will find the strings ready for translation in WPML -> String Translation

2) Apply this patch (add 3 lines):

Index: classes/helper.php
===================================================================
--- classes/helper.php	(revision 1919570)
+++ classes/helper.php	(working copy)
@@ -235,6 +235,9 @@
         if (class_exists('SitePress')) {
             $lang = ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE;
             $woof_settings = get_option('woof_settings');
+            if (is_object($taxonomy_info)) {
+                $string = $woof_settings['custom_tax_label'][$taxonomy_info->name];
+            }
             if (isset($woof_settings['wpml_tax_labels']) AND ! empty($woof_settings['wpml_tax_labels'])) {
                 $translations = $woof_settings['wpml_tax_labels'];
                 //$translations = unserialize($translations);

With these 3 lines we will pick up the translation we added before.

Let me know if you would consider including this fix in your plugin to give our shared users a better experience.

Initially reported in https://wpml.org/de/forums/topic/problem-with-taxonomy-translation-2/

Thanks
David Garcia Watkins
david.g@onthegosystems.com

• This topic was modified 5 years, 8 months ago by David Garcia Watkins.