[Resolved] WPML and "Read more…" translation problems

Just to be clear here is the “workflow” :

– I create a category X in French.
– I translate this category to Spanish, it becomes a category Y in Spanish directly linked to the category X in French.
– I create an hotel page in French to which I apply category X
– I translate this page to spanish and it’s automatically applying the category Y to it.
– I make a WPSP list for the category X.
– I create a french post where I include this WPSP list which is displaying hotel in French.
– I translate this post to spanish and it includes the same WPSP list which is displaying hotel in spanish, except button, but normal because this is the only part that is produced by the plugin itself, everything else is produced by translations I’ve made.

Absolutely, they can contact us through our form here: https://wpshowposts.com/contact/

We haven’t heard from them yet. From their latest reply, it seems they’re still looking into the issue.

Hi @Tom, I had a reply from WPML Support and it’s not good. Basically their solution is : create a new WPSP list for Spanish posts and insert it manually… obviously this will work, I’ll can translate read more button because it’s a new list… but I mean, this is not what I’m looking for… I have and I’ll have hundreds of WPSP lists, this is an insane solution and “nothing” is not a translation plugin is supposed to do… Here everything is working find, same WPSP list is displaying dynamically posts in spanish perfectly, the only problem is the read more button (because it’s the only “non dynamic” item is this workflow).

Did they contact you to see how to solve this ? If not, could you contact them ? (here : https://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/go-global-program/)

Hi Tom,

Thanks, but this function is breaking everything.

But yes, as an alternative to solve this, I like the idea to force what text would be inside the read more button as I’m only using the button option for this purpose.

I tried replacing the en_US with fr_FR but it didn’t work either.

When you say it broke everything, what do you mean? What did it break, exactly?

Let me know 🙂

Hi Tom, (if you can delete my previous message please)

Here is a solution from WPML Support :

This is how the WP Show Posts plugin works. The lists are a CPT and its content needs to be translated as posts, and to display it properly the plugin author/developer needs to set the proper post ID inside the shortcode.

We found a workaround though:
– Add the following code to Appearance > Theme Editor > functions.php

add_filter('wpsp_read_more_output', 'wpml_fix');
 
function wpml_fix($output) {
    $output = sprintf('<div class="wpsp-read-more"><a title="%1$s" class="%4$s" href="%2$s">%3$s</a></div>',
    the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ),
    esc_url( get_permalink() ),
    __('Read more fixed', 'wpml-fix'),
    esc_attr( 'wpsp-read-more'));
 
    return $output;
}

-Replace “Read more fixed” with the text you want to display in the front end
-Scan the theme for strings
-Translate the text in WPML > ST (it will show up under the domain “wpml-fix”)

This is almost working, except it’s breaking how WPSP is displaying the button and how we asked him to behave (function for redirecting to custom URL). You can see a test example here : https://miviajeporcolombia.com/test-33-es/

If button style can be reproduce by CSS, I don’t know how to make the custom redirection function working in the spanish version of my website. The redirection function you gave me was in my function.php I moved it to Elements to be able to translate it. So I have now a Hook with the redirection function active in spanish version. But it’s not working.

If you want to use their fix, do this:

1. Use the latest development version: https://wpshowposts.com/wp-show-posts-1-2-0/

2. Use this function:

add_filter( 'wpsp_read_more_output', function( $output, $settings ) {
    return sprintf(
        '<div class="wpsp-read-more"><a title="%1$s" class="%4$s" href="%2$s">%3$s</a></div>',
        the_title_attribute( 'echo=0' ),
        esc_url( get_permalink() ),
        __( 'Read more', 'wp-show-posts' ),
        esc_attr( $settings['read_more_class'] )
    );
}, 10, 2 );

That should retain all the styling and make the text discoverable by WPML.