Load translation from other language

[NielsHavermans]

How can I load a translation from an other language, other than the current language?

For example, my site has 4 languages but some items are only available in 2 languages. If the current language is not available I want to load an other language which is available. I want to use this for the title, content and some meta fields.

[soft79]

I use this snippet:

//WP Multilang: Fallback to any language if a translation does not exist
add_filter( 'wpm_untranslated_text', function( $translation, $strings, $language ) {
    if ( $translation === '' ) {
        foreach( $strings as $string ) {
            if ( ( '' === $string ) ) continue;

            $translation = $string;
            break;
        }
    }
    return $translation;
}, 10, 3 );

[NielsHavermans]

Hi Soft79, thanks for your reply but this is not what i'm looking for. I want to get a other translation (as fallback) from the database only if a translation not exists. So if a page is loaded in Dutch and the page title is not in Dutch available the site needs to load the original English translation as fallback, right from the database.

[soft79]

And what's wrong with the snippet then? That's what the snippet should do and I have been using it in production for more than a year now.

(originally I placed a PR for this, see https://github.com/VaLeXaR/wp-multilang/pull/12 but VaLeXaR didn't want this in core so he made a filter for this)

[soft79]

Niels, did you try the snippet?