Translate "Job Title" on front-end via WPML

@ Greg

Apologies! I somehow did miss this.

I’ve read the thread over in the WPML support forum…

I guess the first thing that needs to be clarified is that Connections is not a custom post type (CPT). Connections uses custom database tables instead for a couple reasons. One, Connections is older than the WP CPT feature. Two, and more importantly, the db schema of the custom tables are more optimized for directories whereas CPT’s are optimized for post content. This allows me to do things which are difficult is not possible if I were to use a CPT. This is very likely you are not seeing what you need to see in WPML.

Looking at the WPML developer docs, it seems, I think I would have to add specific support in the code for WPML support for user input as outline in their docs.

I could not find anything in their dev docs specifically outlining the procedure to add WPML support to plugins which use custom tables and with user input. I’m not able to ask questions in their support forum since I’m not a customer. If you could relay this question to them asking them to point me to the relevant docs. I can at least add initial support for the job title field.

If this will help them, the code to get and set the job title can be found in these two links:

• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L327
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L1009
• https://github.com/Connections-Business-Directory/Connections/blob/8.5.22/includes/entry/class.entry-data.php#L1025

The actual data is retrieved and saved from the db using the WordPress wpdb API.

I hope this helps move this issue forward to resolution. Let me know what you find out.

@ Greg

I’ve scoured the WPML docs several times… usually when this issue pops up again. I can not find anywhere in there docs where they document how to enable support for data stored in custom WordPress tables which contain user generated content. The closest I could find was how to accomplish it for text widgets which does not seems to cover this use case.

Unfortunately when there users ask this question of them they seem to only get the bog standard answer to have the dev join their program :/

Add shortcode support to the title field whole doable will not be of much actual use. The database field which saves this sata is limited to only 255 characters (roughly, it is actually 255 bytes, charact can be more than a byte).

To add shortcode support, I think, this would work…

Edit the class.entry-output.php file. Change lines 896 and 897 from this:

$org  = $atts['show_org'] ? $this->getOrganization() : '';
$dept = $atts['show_dept'] ? $this->getDepartment() : '';

to this:

$org  = $atts['show_org'] ? do_shortcode( $this->getOrganization() ) : '';
$dept = $atts['show_dept'] ? do_shortcode( $this->getDepartment() ) : '';

This is completely untested…