Title: Compatible with WPML?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Compatible with WPML?

 *  Resolved [tacoberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoberry/)
 * (@tacoberry)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/)
 * I haven’t had the chance to test this out myself, but thought I’d check to see
   if anyone else has been able to check whether Global Content Blocks is compatible
   with WPML? It would be very handy if you could create a content block, hardcode
   its shortcode in a theme’s code and be able to display translated content for
   every different language version of your site.
 * Other ways on how to use global content blocks to dynamically display translated
   content on multilingual sites are also welcome.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/global-content-blocks/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/global-content-blocks/)

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 *  Plugin Author [benz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz1/)
 * (@benz1)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/#post-5044602)
 * I don’t see any reason why it wouldn’t work. Just try it and see! 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [tacoberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoberry/)
 * (@tacoberry)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/#post-5044751)
 * I just gave using Global Content Blocks with WPML a shot and unfortunately it
   doesn’t work. When you translate the content for a content block on one language
   version, the translation is also being shown on the original language version.
   So you’re not able to use one Global Content Block for the different translated
   versions of your site, you need to create different versions of the same content
   block. This isn’t a big issue when enclosing content blocks in page content, 
   but it does get annoying when you’re embedding a content block in a PHP page 
   template for instance. Any ideas on how to efficiently manage this?
 *  Plugin Author [benz1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benz1/)
 * (@benz1)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/#post-5044752)
 * Not unless you can add some conditional php around the shortcode each language
   version only appears when that language is selected. Sorry but this isn’t something
   that i can assist with, maybe WPML can?
 *  Thread Starter [tacoberry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tacoberry/)
 * (@tacoberry)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/#post-5044754)
 * Thank you for your prompt advice benz1, I’ll check on a solution for this with
   WPML. There is indeed a workaround for it. Still, it would be nice if Global 
   Content Blocks would be compatible with WPML so that it’s possible to give different
   language versions for a content block without having to create different content
   blocks or only displaying a language specific one. 🙂

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatible-with-wpml-4/#post-5044754)
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