[Closed] can I add new language and use automatic translation, if post was translated in classic editor?

Hello,

Thanks for contacting us.

While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.

If you use the Classic Translation Editor on your site, you can switch to the Advanced Translation Editor for new translations. You can keep existing translations in the Classic Translation Editor or move them to the Advanced Translation Editor.

If you switch existing translations to the Advanced Translation Editor, they will appear fine on the front-end. But, to make them appear or update them in the Advanced Translation Editor, you'll need to retranslate your content by either using automatic translation or copy pasting the existing translations.

https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-the-translation-editor/switching-from-classic-to-advanced-translation-editor/

Regards,
Drazen

If you mean you want to translate the content from English into German or even from Polish int German, then you can do it by going to WPML > Settings and making sure you have the advanced translation editor selected and also the classic editor under "what to do with already translated content".

Then I suggest you send the page to translate via WPML > Translation management and select the "translate Automatically" option there, instead of doing it directly from the page.

That should do the trick but please know that it's very possible that if you open an already translated page from before using the Advanced Translation Editor, you might end up getting it opened on the translation editor, because what you want to do is probably not sustainable on the long term.

Regards.