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Creating Multilingual Sliders Using LayerSlider and WPML

The LayerSlider plugin allows you to create sliders that can display images, videos, and posts. It features a multitude of animation effects and allows the layering of content in each slide. The integration of LayerSlider with WPML allows you to create and run multilingual sliders and popups.

Updated: October 18, 2024

Getting Started

Start by installing and activating the following plugins:

If you’re new to WPML, check out our Getting Started Guide. It quickly walks you through different translation options you can use.

Translating Projects

To translate the text written on slides, popups, and other LayerSlider projects, follow these steps:

  1. From your WordPress dashboard, go to WPMLTranslationsStrings.
  2. Choose your project from the drop-down menu titled In domain. LayerSlider gives each project a domain of its own, named layerslider-project- followed by the project’s ID. The list then shows every text you added to that project.
  3. Click the plus icon to add your translations.
Translating slider text using String Translation
Translating slider text using String Translation
  1. To display the translated project on the front end, translate the page that includes it. You can translate it yourself by clicking on the plus icon in the list of pages. This opens the Advanced Translation Editor where you can translate the page.
Translating the page the slider appears on
Translating the page the slider appears on

Your project will then be available in your secondary language.

The translated slider on the front-end
The translated slider on the front-end

Translating Images

WPML’s Media Translation add-on allows you to upload different images to use in different languages. This means you can customize not only the text, but also the images that appear on your sliders for each of your site’s languages.

To upload a different image to use in another language, go to WPMLTranslationsMedia and click the plus or pencil icon to edit the image’s translation.

Editing the image’s translation
Editing the image’s translation

Upload a new image file to use in your secondary language.

Uploading a new image file for the secondary language
Uploading a new image file for the secondary language

Now, when you view the slider on the front-end, you see the original image in your default language and the new image in your secondary language.

Read more about translating images using WPML’s Media Translation add-on.

Known Issues

There are no unresolved compatibility issues between this plugin and WPML. Search all known issues.

Getting Help

If you need help translating your site built using LayerSlider and WPML, visit WPML support.

Written byAmir