Getting it to work with WPML Translation

[SwitzerBaden]

I just spent the last hour figuring out how to hack the featured content gallery (fcg) plug-in to work with WPML and wanted to share how I got it working at http://www.twinpictures.de

Step 1: Insert this function into the theme functions.php file

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function lang_category_id($id){
  if(function_exists('icl_object_id')) {
    return icl_object_id($id,'category',true);
  } else {
    return $id;
  }
}

Step 2: in the featured-content-gallery/gallery.php file, replace this:

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query_posts('category_name=' . get_option('gallery-category') . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));

with this:

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$trans_cat = lang_category_id( get_cat_id( get_option( 'gallery-category' ) ) );
query_posts('cat=' . $trans_cat . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));


What changed:
The fcg plugin was grabbing all posts from whatever you set as the 'gallery-category' by Name.
now, we take that gallery name, find the gallery ID, find the translated gallery ID (if there is one) and then grab all posts from that Category ID.

Hope this saves someone time figuring this out.
-SwitzerBaden

[adiaz]

Hi all,

The Step 2 was failing to me so I changed it into:

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$trans_cat = lang_category_id( get_cat_id( get_option( 'gallery-category' ) ) );
query_posts('category_id=' . $trans_cat . '&showposts=' . get_option('gallery-items'));


The diference is in the second line: 'category_id=' instead of 'cat='.

Hope this helps.

[aiwe]

Hi, thank you for this hack. Can you please tell me how to make WPML translate "Featured Content" button which opens drawer with thumbnails? I'm building site with 3 languages and only this inscription remains the same. Adding something like

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textShowCarousel: '<? _e(); ?>',

in jd.gallery.js.php doesn't work, thoug it works with gallery.php where WPML succesfully translates tooltip on links.

[fsabbagh]

This was a huge help for me
Thank you
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