[Escalated to 2nd Tier] Translating menu description
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Background of the issue:
I am developing a site and using WPML to translate content. I have a menu where each item has a description, but these descriptions do not translate via WPML.
Symptoms:
The menu descriptions are not translating with WPML.
Questions:
Is there a way to translate menu descriptions myself without creating a separate menu for each language?
I fully understand the process of creating a menu instance for another language and I wanted to avoid that. When I have a menu in one language, when WPML translates the entire page, the Menu is translated and only the descriptions are not translated.
The attachment shows where the description is entered, which, unlike the title, is not automatically translated and I do not see any option to translate it (except of course the method from the guide you sent, where a separate menu instance is created)
Welcome to WPML support. I checked and unfortunately, there is no option to translate the menu description automatically or via the Advanced Translation editor.
The only way is the manual way my colleague mentioned in the previous reply.
If you are interested I can add this as a feature request in our internal issue tracker.
I wanted to inform you that this issue has been added as a feature request.
The feature requests are reviewed by our development team and depending on the feasibility for implementation and the number of requests it will be either rejected or added int he queue for implementation.
