Fields being overwritten with Polylang Plugin

[Shelob9]

A user in this support forum thread reports the following issue using using Polylang with Pods:

"I have Polylang working with 3 different language without problems with post and pages translations.
I create a new pod (page) with the title, the text and 4 fields Wysiwyg and activate Polylang."

WordPress 3.7.1, Polylang 1.1.6 and Pods 2.3.18.

[unknownnf]

Fields can be overwritten with pods in Polylang if Custom Fields synchronization is enabled. This happens to both meta based and table based fields afaik. Also creating a new translation with existing values in the fields with that setting on would create a new page, with empty fields and empty all fields for all translations.

[sc0ttkclark]

@unknownnf what do we do here?

[unknownnf]

Well the problem is that polylang/wpml get the raw meta value and sync that, however our form gets the value of a new pods object which is empty.

The more I try to fix this the more I think this should be a separate plugin to handle multilingual stuff. Then we can just hook into value or input functions and get whatever we need depending on the settings.

Would be a lot more elegant than hacking the base plugin to support this.

[sc0ttkclark]

Sounds like a good idea

[unknownnf]

Yeah but this would require more re-factoring for fields to have a raw value function call or something along those lines. Currently we always pass the value to a field with function calls, which probably means a lot of hooks and whistles to get this going, this is probably going to cause a lot of problems further down the line.

[sc0ttkclark]

Pods::raw exists, and Pods::field takes a 'raw' parameter (Pods::raw just maps to that), does that help?

[fuldauer]

Hi there! Have you advanced any in this issue? I'm stuck in a project because of this and I'd like to know, because I had already lost all hope, but because of all the work invested already I'm giving it a another try.

[JoryHogeveen]

From what I read here it's about syncing metadata between translations (for WPML and Polylang).

Though I have started with a sync plugin for media (attachments), this functionality isn't very easy to implement for all types since you're also dealing with possible non-existend translations etc.

https://github.com/JoryHogeveen/pods-polylang-sync-meta

This plugin currently only syncs attachments and automatically adds translations if they don't exist.

If anyone want's to help in creating this functionality for all relationship types, please let me know!

[quasel]

@JoryHogeveen maybe make a master list of i18n issues? to see what's open or triage that stuff? so may unresolved issues around that… and all the plugins have advanced in the last year++ ;)

[JoryHogeveen]

and all the plugins have advanced in the last year

This still isn't related to syncing relational data. i18n plugins will never support this since it's not a feature from WP. That is why I started with an addon for Pods. If you use ACF for example you will need a different tool/plugin to sync any relational data.