Update on WPML compatibility issues

[Mason]

Hi,

I wanted to follow up on the conflicts I reported a couple of month ago. You can see the thread here: https://theeventscalendar.com/support/forums/topic/conflict-with-edd-fes/

If I remember correctly, an update was supposed to be released in May to address those issues. Any idea when it would be available?

I’m counting on this update to use your plugin along with WPML on my website.

Thank you.

Mason

[Barry]

Hi Mason,

Unfortunately, achieving WPML integration is not a simple problem to solve.

We appreciate that you and other users would like to use it alongside our own plugins but, at least for the moment, I can only recommend testing comparable multilingual plugins to see if those work a little more smoothly.

[Mason]

Hey Barry,

I understand that it’s complicated but at least give us a timeline please so that we can plan based on it.

Cheers,
Mason

[Barry]

Hi Mason,

I’m afraid we do not generally provide specific timelines for planned features or functionality.

In this case it is not absolutely clear that changes are even required or would be best made in our own codebase – which already follows most or all WordPress best practices for internationalization.

It could be that WPML itself needs to change how it works to accommodate a wider range of plugins, like our own, or alternatively it may need to introduce new facilities our plugins can interact with before we can make changes on our end.

Given the number of unknowns we just can’t commit even to an approximate timeline.

[Mason]

Thank you Barry. Translation is not the only issue with WPML. EDD Tickets doesn’t work when WPML plugin is active.

[Barry]

Yes, there are definitely some general compatibility issues – for instance tickets may be associated with the wrong post entities, if I recall correctly – and again that comes down to the way WPML functions and alters the environment.

All I can say is we’re aware work needs to be done here – not necessarily or exclusively in relation to our own codebase – and of course we realize this is a source of frustration for you and others. It’s also a large and complex issue to tackle but one which, hopefully, we will start to get to grips with in the course of this year.

As there is little else we can offer right at this point in time I’ll go ahead and close this topic – but should anything else crop up please don’t hesitate to post new topics as needed and one of the team will be only too happy to assist 🙂

[Leah]

Hello,

We are excited to report that our upcoming release, The Events Calendar 3.12, includes changes that greatly improve the compatibility between The Events Calendar and WPML. We’ve been working hard on this integration for some time and we want to specifically thank all of our users who requested and waited for this feature. We appreciate all of the support and patience!

Version 3.12 of The Events Calendar will greatly improve compatibility with WPML, but we still have work to do. If you run into any problems integrating the two plugins, please post in our forums so that we can look into the issues. We’ll be on the look out for tweaks and fixes that will improve things further.

Thank you again to everyone who has been waiting for this! The Events Calendar 3.12 is coming soon- watch your WordPress Updates page!

Best,
Leah
and The Events Calendar team

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