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Cloudwords offers quality translation for both small and large websites. In-context review guarantees that all published content meets high standards. Work with your favorite translation service or locate a translation service in the Cloudwords Marketplace.

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About Cloudwords

Cloudwords offers quality translation for both small and large websites. In-context review guarantees that all published content meets high standards. Work with your favorite translation service or locate a translation service in the Cloudwords Marketplace.

Getting started with Cloudwords and WPML

To send content for translation to Cloudwords, install the following plugins on your website:

  • WPML Multilingual CMS – the core plugin
  • WPML String Translation – this plugin will allow you to translate interface strings

You can download them from your wpml.org account. If you do not have an account yet, you can create a new one by choosing WPML Multilingual CMS or Multilingual Agency plans.

Working with Cloudwords via WPML

Here are the basic steps of working with WPML and Cloudwords. For a full walkthrough, check out our page about using WPML with a translation service.

Connecting Your Website to Cloudwords

First, you need to connect WPML with Cloudwords. Part of this very simple process is to request your Cloudwords Acces Key.

If you do not have a Cloudwords account yet, please go to the contact page and simply fill in and submit the form. A Cloudwords representative will get in contact with you to set up the appropriate account.

As soon as you login to your Cloudwords account, please select Settings → My Account from the menu at the top of the page.

Next switch to the API tab and click the Generate Access Key button and copy your Cloudwords API access key.

Return to your website, open the WPML → Translation Management page and switch to the Translators tab.

Enter your Cloudwords API Access Key to authenticate Cloudwords and you are ready to send content for translation.

Sending content for translation

Once your site is connected to Cloudwords, you can start sending your content for translation.

Receive a quotation from Cloudwords

Once the jobs have been sent, you will need to finish the configuration in Cloudwords. Click on the Translation Jobs tab at the top of the page and you will see a list of all jobs that you have sent to translation thus far.

The content of the basket you have just sent should be visible at the top of the list. Click on the batch name to open the corresponding project in Cloudwords.

If you are not logged in when you click this link, Cloudwords prompts you for credentials and starts the setup wizard.

The subsequent steps allow you to check source files delivered from WPML, define the translation request and kick off the project.

Vendors (translators) will use all provided information, including your translation memory, and prepare bids (which appear on the Bids tab of your project). When you accept the bids the translation starts.

Additional details concerning project configuration, workflow, and available options in Cloudwords can be found in the Cloudwords documentation.

Receiving completed translations

Once done, your site is ready to receive completed translations.

Canceling translation jobs

If for some reason you do not want to translate pages sent from WPML to Cloudwords please remember the following:

  • You cannot manually delete jobs from the Translations Job tab on your website.
  • You can cancel the project and jobs only in Cloudwords.
  • From Cloudwords you can cancel only an entire project. You cannot cancel a single job (for example the translation of one page for one language pair).

If you have yet to complete the configuration in Cloudwords, open the Translation Jobs tab in WPML and click the batch name you want to cancel.

This opens the Cloudwords page. On the top-right corner of this page, the Cancel project link is visible.

If you have completed the configuration, but have yet to accept bids, you can always open the project edit page and cancel the project using the button at the bottom of the page.

Please, remember that canceling projects for which you have already accepted a bid may incur costs from the vendor if work was already completed.

Read more about canceling translation jobs sent to a professional service.

Translating the Rest of Your Site

Once you’re done translating the content of your page, there could be untranslated texts in menus, sidebars, and similar places. No problem, you can use Cloudwords to translate the rest of your site.


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