Shopp Multilingual
Shopp Multilingual connects to both Shopp and WPML. It turns Shopp products and categories into fully multilingual.
Store admins translate their site using WPML’s Translation Dashboard. Visitors can switch display language using WPML’s standard language selector.
The e-commerce functionality blends perfectly into any WordPress site. You can place the product catalog and checkout pages anywhere, alongside standard WordPress pages.
WPML stores language preferences for visitors. This means that the Shopp-client account also displays in the correct language, providing a complete localized experience for your customers.
Prerequesites
Shopp Multilingual will only run on new versions of WPML’s Multilingual CMS package and Shopp. Older versions do not include the required hooks.
You will need to enable WPML’s core, Translation Management and String Translation.
Download
Shopp Multilingual is still under development. It’s currently in Alpha with much of the functionality complete and ready for testing.
shopp-multilingual.0.9.0.zipUsage
After you enable Shopp Multilingual, it will first ask you to translate the Shopp pages. This is required, in order to have a multilingual store. You will need to use WPML’s Translation Management module and send the pages for translation using the Translation Dashboard.
Translating the store pages
Now, your store appears in multiple languages and it’s time to translate products.
Again, go to the Translation Dashboard. This time, choose Shopp’s products and send to translation.
Translating Shopp products
Please note that Shopp’s translation is only possible from English to other languages. Enter your product description in English and translate to the other languages in your site.
Known Limitations
These limitations are mostly due to incomplete multilingual support in Shopp. To check the current status, we recommend contacting Shopp authors directly.
- Works best with language URLs of directories and domains. Language as arguments (like lang=de) is not fully supported.
- Built-in Shopp templates are not localization-ready. You can work around it by duplicating the Shopp templates locally and wrapping the texts in GetText calls.
We’d love to know your experience with Shopp Multilingual. Feel free to leave comments here or post in our forum.
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Great News!
I would like to volunteer for the Beta program. Do I also need to be a Shopp customer to participate?
Count me in !
I would love to participate in testing it!
yay! happy to read this! I’m already a shopp customer, let me know when you have the beta ready.
I was developing this functionality a couple of weeks ago.
It’s about a week away from beta, maybe a little more.
In our development environment, we can already see a multilingual product catalog, but there are still numerous things in the way before we can call it a working product.
Count me in for the beta.
hi, let me know how can i help.
I am a shopp and WPML consumer…. i was about to install and go with tomatocart for my next e-commerce site, but look like a good candidate for testing.. is interested.. site must be finish in 2 month !
We’re all hope that multilingual Shopp will be available well before that time.
Will it be available for free?
Yes, at no additional charge for Shopp and WPML clients. And, it’s pretty close to completion.
I would like to partecipate to test it, let me know when and about
So how do we get started on the beta?
Still place for the beta version?
Would love to try this. Already own a Shopp Developer license and WPML CMS License
Great. We’re getting close and I’ll write about it when there’s something to test.
Would like to test it out. Thanks!
I would like to test it out too, Thanks!
Hey, that’s great news. Looking forward to seeing the finished product. Keep up the good work Amir (and team!)
It’s been a while since the alpha version!
How is this project going?
It’s not going as easily as we had hoped. We’re planning major changes in WPML to accommodate e-commerce sites better. These will be available in WPML 2.4.0.
Looking forward!!!
What is ‘special’ about eCommerce plugins with WPML? I am about to step into WPML for a new site but wondering what happens to the cart pages.
Q1: Does WPML still work with carts, eg Cart66, MarketPress, Shopp plugins, but just ignore the cart pages?
Q2: If so, can I just code multi-lingual posts inside cart program and all is well?
Q3: Or does WPML + Cart = compatibility problems?
Q4: Dare I ask, what cart plugin do you know woreks Ok?
Thanks for any advice. Your WPML product is a fabulous piece of work.
Richard
Hong Kong
hello, i am one of your customer and I would like to know if there are any news on this?
hi
what’s happening with this?
Shopp is undergoing a major change. The new version will work completely differently than the existing versions. We’ll be able to resume this when Shopp 1.2 is out.
i see. better double check shopp too then, didn’t know about the changes. thank you
Now that Shopp 1.2 is out I’am wondering how far this project is currently ?
We have a WP with Shopp 1.1.8/1.1.9 and upgraded it to 1.2.
Intalled the wpml shopp plugin, but to no prevail right now
I don’t know what the status is. It greatly depends on the amount of time that Jonathan, Shopp developer, has to spend on it. You should really ask him and see if he has any plans to resume this.
Do you know if he reads this forum ?
Or do you have an address that I can use to contact him ?
You better contact Jonathan on his site:
https://shopplugin.net/
There’s got to be a contact form, and if there isn’t I’d see it as a sign of trouble.
ok, will do