✨ Gato AI Translations for Polylang now supports translating meta containing arrays and objects

Gato AI Translations for Polylang has just released v12.2.0 with a brand-new feature: Translate meta data containing arrays and objects (in addition to a single string).

The following data structures in meta fields are now supported:

• Single string. Eg: "hello world"
• Array of strings. Eg: ["hello", "world"]
• Object's 1st level strings. Eg: { level1_key1: "hello", level1_key2: "world"}

The plugin will identify the data structure without any manual intervention, and translate the strings accordingly:

1. Detect arrays and objects in your meta fields
2. Extract the translatable strings
3. Translate them
4. Store the results in the database, preserving the original data structure

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Extending compatibility to more plugins

This feature provides support for plugins that store arrays and objects in meta fields.

An example is Slim SEO, a popular SEO plugin that stores its meta data as a JSON object under meta key slim_seo.

For instance, this is how that meta for a post is stored in the database:

a:4:{s:5:"title";s:67:"This is the meta title in English, will it be translated my friend?";s:11:"description";s:42:"I hope it will, or else I'm fried!";s:7:"noindex";i:1;}Copy

...representing this JSON object:

{
  "title": "This is the meta title in English, will it be translated my friend?",
  "description": "I hope it will, or else I'm fried!",
  "noindex": 1
}Copy

To translate the Slim SEO meta for our posts and pages, you just need to add the slim_seo meta key in the Settings for translating custom post meta:

Now, when translatinga a page which contains Slim SEO meta...

...the translated page will have the SEO meta also translated:

Enjoy!