Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) Multilingual – Seamless Multilingual Support for WordPress

📌 This is a GPL-distributed version. No official support. Clean, secure, and legally redistributed under the GPL license.

📝 Overview

ACF Multilingual enables full compatibility between Advanced Custom Fields (ACF) and multilingual WordPress sites, making it easier to manage custom fields across multiple languages. It works seamlessly with popular multilingual plugins like WPML, allowing you to translate field groups, manage data per language, and avoid data loss.

🚀 Key Features

Multilingual Ready

✔️ Works with WPML to ensure all field groups function correctly in multiple languages.
✔️ Duplicate field groups to translate them without losing field names.
✔️ Translate field labels, settings, and values while maintaining database integrity.

Post & Field Management

✔️ Only relevant language field groups are loaded when editing posts.
✔️ Use the ‘Duplicate’ and ‘Translate Independently’ workflow to avoid overwriting translated fields.
✔️ Metabox settings (‘Translate’ or ‘Copy’) prevent accidental data loss when updating posts.

Data Integrity

✔️ Special attention to WPML-specific hidden custom fields (e.g., fields starting with “_”) to ensure proper translation.
✔️ Skip underscore-prefixed fields and keep them in ‘Translate’ mode to maintain unique values per language.

Easy Setup

✔️ Enable field group translation in WPML’s Translation Management.
✔️ Translate posts and custom fields without conflicts across languages.
✔️ Maintain a consistent workflow for multilingual content using ACF.

🎯 Why Use ACF Multilingual?

• 🌍 Effortlessly manage multilingual custom fields in WordPress.

• 🔧 Avoid data loss and maintain field integrity across translations.

• ⚡ Fully compatible with WPML, making it ideal for global websites.

• 🛠️ Easy-to-follow guidelines for field duplication, translation, and post editing.

ACF Multilingual is a must-have plugin for developers and site owners who want full control over custom fields on multilingual WordPress websites, ensuring data is correctly translated and displayed for every language.