Houzez Theme – Translations revert when the default language is not English

Status

Resolved

Resolved in

4.5.0

Related plugin/theme

Houzez

Overview of the issue

Houzez Theme uses its own custom function to call its theme options. If your site’s default language is not English, this function will conflict with WPML. The result is that translations will not be displayed in the front-end and they will be reverted to the default language in the admin.

Workaround

Before proceeding make a full backup of your site.

1. Open /wpml-string-translation/inc/admin-texts/wpml-admin-texts.class.php.


2. Look for line 198.


3. Replace:

   	function icl_st_set_admin_options_filters() {
   		$option_names = $this->getOptionNames();
   
   		foreach ( $option_names as $option_key => $option ) {
   			if ( $this->is_blacklisted( $option_key ) ) {
   				unset( $option_names[ $option_key ] );
   				update_option( '_icl_admin_option_names', $option_names );
   			} elseif ( $option_key != 'theme' && $option_key != 'plugin' ) { // theme and plugin are an obsolete format before 3.2
   				add_filter( 'option_' . $option_key, array( $this, 'icl_st_translate_admin_string' ) );
   				add_action( 'update_option_' . $option_key, array( $this, 'on_update_original_value' ), 10, 3 );
   			}
   		}
   	}



4. With:

   	function icl_st_set_admin_options_filters() {
   		$option_names = $this->getOptionNames();
   
   		$isAdmin = is_admin() && ! wpml_is_ajax();
   
   		foreach ( $option_names as $option_key => $option ) {
   			if ( $this->is_blacklisted( $option_key ) ) {
   				unset( $option_names[ $option_key ] );
   				update_option( '_icl_admin_option_names', $option_names );
   			} elseif ( $option_key != 'theme' && $option_key != 'plugin' ) { // theme and plugin are an obsolete format before 3.2
   				/**
   				 * We don't want to translate admin strings in admin panel because it causes a lot of confusion
   				 * when a value is displayed inside the form input.
   				 **/
   				if ( ! $isAdmin ) {
   					add_filter( 'option_' . $option_key, array( $this, 'icl_st_translate_admin_string' ) );
   				}
   				add_action( 'update_option_' . $option_key, array( $this, 'on_update_original_value' ), 10, 3 );
   			}
   		}
   	}

Next steps

This issue will be resolved upon the release of WPML 4.5 (end of September 2021).

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