Custom polylang string translations

[friese]

Hi everyone,

I’m fairly new to bricks and still learning…
Right now I’m trying to translate the header and footer templates using polylang.
As far as I’m aware, I have to make the template/design in one language, and then copy/translate the template and change stuff like titles, text and so on.
I would like to avoid copying the whole template only to change a few words.
Is it somehow possible to use translation strings in the fields?

I know I can manually register strings to polylang using pll_register_string (Function reference – Polylang), but how can I use it in “heading” or “rich text” elements for example?
Even better would be If I don’t have to register these strings manually.

I hope I describe my problem good enough and I’m looking forward to your feedback.
Thanks in advance,
friese

[friese]

Nobody has an idea?
This makes using bricks kind of annoying and very inefficient in my opinion

[friese]

Help?
Does really nobody has this problem?

[aslotta]

Hey @friese,

you have to register the custom strings for translation. There is no way around it (that I know of). But then you can easily use them in your template (without duplicating and translating the actual template):

1. Register the custom strings:

$custom_strings = [
    'bricks_header' => 'Das hier ist der Header',
    'bricks_footer' => 'Das hier ist der Footer',
];

foreach ( $custom_strings as $name => $string ) {
    pll_register_string( $name, $string );
}

2. Translate the registered strings:

3. Whitelist Polylang’s pll__ function to be used with the dynamic data echo tag:

add_filter( 'bricks/code/echo_function_names', function() {
    return [
        'pll__',
    ];
} );

4. Use the pll__ function in your templates:

{echo:pll__('Das hier ist der Header')}

5. Enjoy the result :

Best,

André