WPML & Tribe Event bug

[Andrea Caperni]

Any news about the bug we explain in this topic?

In future recurring events not display all serie

[Geoff B.]

Good evening Andrea and welcome back!

Thank you for writing back.

Unfortunately, we are still working hand-in-hand with the good folks at WPML on many WPML improvements and fixes, including support for recurring events.

As much as I hate being the bearer of bad news, this is unlikely to get released before the end of the summer from the looks of it. As an avid WPML user myself, I can’t wait.

With that in mind, there is a manual workaround possible. But, I have a few disclaimers to make about it:

• The “see all recurring events” link will not work even after you apply the workaround
• It involves manually assigning languages to each recurring event posts directly in the Database (via phpMyAdmin)
• You need to be fully comfortable with backing up your database and recovering it

Let me know if you would like me to walk you through that very imperfect workaround ?

Best regards,

Geoff B.

[Andrea Caperni]

Hi Geoff,
yes! Explain me your imperfect workaround,
thank’s

[Geoff B.]

Good afternoon Andrea,

Thank you for writing back and for your patience.
Please, make a DB backup before attempting the following.

Cause of the issue:

The parent post of the recurring events though and it’s translated counterpart, are registered properly in the icl_translations DB table (as a normal post would), along with their language_code.

But, the recurring event posts are not sent to the icl_translations DB table (as a normal post would).

As such, they don’t get assigned a language_code, which in turn means that they do not get returned for display because, according to the table WPML uses, they “don’t exist”.

Solution:

We need to force an entry in the icl_translations DB table FOR EACH post found in the wp_posts table, including the recurring events.

EACH entry created that way gets the default language assigned as its language_code.

To do that:

• Head over to WPML > Support and click on the “troubleshooting page” link.
• Scroll down to the Cleanup section
• Click on the “Set language information” button

Next, you need to correctly assign each recurring event post with the correct language values in the icl_translations DB table

To do that, you have a couple of options:

1. Manually assigning the correct language to each recurring event post AND assigning each translation to it’s translated counterpart manually through the WP admin Events interface. This can take quite a while.
2. Head over to PHP my admin and find the icl_translations DB table.
3. Take a look at the last 4 columns in that table: “element_id”, “trid”, “language_code”, “source_language_code”

• element_id: the post_id of the event
• trid: which post_id it is a translation of
• language_code: sets the language of the post
• source_language_code: sets what language the original post is in

From there, you will need to manually set the info for those last 4 columns for all the recurring events that were freshly created from the previous step.

Let me know how that goes.

Best regards,
Geoff B.

 

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