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Advanced Custom Fields on WPML translations not saving

On a page/post I can copy the Advanced Custom Fields with content to the translated page but when I edit the translated page it always gets overwritten by the Advanced Custom Fields content from the default language page.

Trying to achieve:

I need to copy content with Custom Fields from a default language post to a translated language post, and then edit each language's content independently.

On every other project it just works fine that way…

I've already tried:

  1. Solving some database errors - no success

  2. Changing the execution order for WPML and ACF - no success

  3. Deleting WPML completely and deactivating ACF and all other plugins. then install WPML first and activate ACF again - no success.

  4. Tried every possible combination of settings in both plugins available - no success

  5. After setting “translate” for “field groups” and “do nothing” for “fields” at WPML options. I can now create independent custom fields for the translation with independent field_names. Saving here works, but I can't copy content from the default page to translated page. So this is a partial success

Next Steps

  • Downgrade ACF to an earlier version.
  • Same as step three from above but instead of reinstalling WPML, i reinstall ACF and activate it first of all.

versions:

  • wpml: 3.1.7.2
  • acf: 5.0.9
  • wordpress: 4.0

I've also posted this issue in the acf support forum.

Solution

  • If anybody also has this issue, I was able to solve it after talking to a developer at ACF.

    Here is how: http://www.advancedcustomfields.com/resources/multilingual-custom-fields/