Hello,
I have an issue with the woodmart_marquee element and WPML translation.
The element does not appear in the WPML Advanced Translation Editor at all,
and cannot be made translatable via WPML Custom XML Configuration.
After investigation I found the root cause: the translatable text in
woodmart_marquee is stored inside the marquee_contents attribute as a
URL-encoded JSON array, like this:
marquee_contents=”%5B%7B%22text%22%3A%22Some text here%22%2C%22icon_type%22
%3A%22inherit%22%7D%5D”
WPML Custom XML Configuration only supports simple string attributes.
It cannot parse nested text values inside an encoded JSON structure.
This is why registering the attribute in wpml-config does not work:
<shortcode>
<tag>woodmart_marquee</tag>
<attributes>
<attribute>marquee_contents</attribute>
</attributes>
</shortcode>
The attribute is registered correctly but WPML cannot extract the text
from it because of the JSON encoding.
To fix this, could you please either:
1. Change the way woodmart_marquee stores text — use a plain string
attribute instead of an encoded JSON array, so WPML can read it natively
2. Or add native WPML string registration for this element directly
in the theme code
This affects any multilingual store that uses the marquee element.
Right now there is no workaround available without custom PHP code.
Theme version: 8.4.1
WPML version: 5.5.5
WPBakery version: 8.7.2
WordPress version: 6.9.4
Thank you.
.
