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Advanced Custom Fields – User Field Returns null with ACFML 1.9.0 in Secondary Languages

Published 2021-09-13 · Updated 2021-09-17
Status
Resolved
Reported for
Advanced Custom Fields Multilingual 1.9.0
Resolved in
1.9.1

Overview of the issue

If you are working with user fields from Advanced Custom Fields, you will notice that you will get a wrong result in secondary languages. This is happening as our latest version of ACFML 1.9.0 is throwing a NULL value for user fields in secondary languages.

Workaround

Our developers are aware of this issue and they are working on it. In the meantime, you can:


  1. Make a full backup of your site before proceeding.

  2. Open /wp-content/plugins/acfml/classes/class-wpml-acf-options-page.php file.

  3. Look for line 254.

  4. Change: 
    		) {
			$dl = acf_get_setting('default_language');
			
			if( $cl && $cl !== $dl ) {
				
				$post_id .= '_' . $cl;
				
			}
		}


  5. With: 
    		) {
			$dl = acf_get_setting('default_language');

			if( $cl && $cl !== $dl ) {
				if ( strpos( $post_id, 'user_' ) === FALSE){

				$post_id .= '_' . $cl;
			}

			}
		}

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