Polylang overwrites original post

[wjwcindy]

I just updated the theme and Cornerstone. Now Polylang is not working properly: When I add English content to a translated post choosing the English language flag, the text in original post in Chinese is overwritten by the English post. All edits made in one post is automatically duplicated in both posts. Please help! I have used this theme, Cornerstone and Polylang for hundreds of posts, and would like to keep doing it.

Thanks.

[christian]

Hey @wjwcindy,

Before I suggest a solution, please note that Polylang is not a supported plugin. With that said, this issue should be addressed by Polylang authors.

During major updates of Cornerstone, the underlying relationship IDs that link translations can occasionally get corrupted, causing the builder to view both translations as the same layout. We recommend the following steps to refresh this connection:

1. Open the English translation post in the WordPress editor.

2. In the Languages sidebar, find the “This is a translation of” dropdown and change it to --None-- (disconnecting it from the Chinese post).

3. Save/Update the post.

4. Open the English post in Cornerstone, make a very minor edit, and save.

5. Exit back to the WordPress dashboard.

6. Re-link the English post to the Chinese post by going back to the Languages box, selecting the Chinese post under “This is a translation of”, and saving.

[wjwcindy]

Thank you, and I understand I may have to go to Polylang. But first I want to try your recommendations. When you say " In the Languages sidebar, find the “This is a translation of” dropdown and change it to --None-- (disconnecting it from the Chinese post)." do you mean the sidebar shown in enclosed screenshot? I don’t see “This is a translation of”** dropdown but I typed in --None--in place of the Chinese post title, and followed the rest of the steps. Nothing changed. I also typed None with same results. Am I missing “This is a translation of” somewhere in the WP editor?

Thank you!

The post I am using as a test is https://www.wangjingwei.org/?p=26512&preview=true and the translated post is https://www.wangjingwei.org/?p=26515&preview=true

[ruenel]

Hey Cindy,

I have investigated the issue, and I was able to replicate this on my local install. I haven’t figured out yet what is causing the issue, though. In the meantime, you can add this snippet to your X Child theme’s functions.php file:

// Polylang Patch
// =============================================================================

add_filter( 'pll_copy_post_metas', function ( $metas, $sync ) {

  if ( ! $sync ) {
    return $metas;
  }

  return array_diff( (array) $metas, array( '_cornerstone_data' ) );

}, 100, 2 );

Kindly let us know how it goes.

[wjwcindy]

Yes, that did the trick. Thank you!

[christian]

Glad to hear that @ruenel

[dhammaearthit]

Hi there,

I am also facing the same issue here.

Cornerstone is not saving the page correctly

HI there, We are using cornerstone with polylang, when we are trying to use cornerstone to edit a page in CN, it will also copy the same content and edit EN page at the same time. After the edit/save operations, we go to the EN page and we will see that the content is still in fact in English, but cornerstone is rendering malformed CN content for that page. This is very confusing and affect our operations heavily. For your reference: CN page (https://dhammaearth.org/) - https://drive.google.…

[ruenel]

Hey Kenny,

We will be responding to your thread shortly.

Cheers.