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Creating Multilingual Sliders with Slider Revolution and WPML

Kathy Banach
Updated
February 12, 2025

Learn how to translate Slider Revolution into different languages with WPML.

Getting Started

Start by installing and activating the following plugins:

How To Translate Different Types of Sliders with WPML

How you translate the text in your slides depends on the type of slider you create:

Currently, it is not possible to translate global layers.

Translating Slider Revolution Sliders

To translate your Slider Revolution slider, start by going to its slider (module) editing screen:

  1. Click on the settings icon to navigate to the Module General Options and then select the General option. 
Navigating to the module’s general settings
  1. Scroll to the bottom and turn on Use WPML Settings, then click Save.
Turning on the use of WPML settings
  1. In the top bar, click the slides icon to go to Slide Options and click WPML. From the Slide Lang. drop-down menu choose the default slide language and click Save.
Set the language of the default slide

  1. Hover your mouse over the Slides menu item and then click the duplication icon to duplicate the slide you want to translate.
Duplicating a slide to translate
  1. Select the slide that you duplicated. We recommend that you use a descriptive name that includes the slide language you will translate it into.
Selecting and naming the duplicate slide
  1. Manually add the translations for the slide’s text. Once done, go to the Slide Options and click WPML. From the Slide Lang. drop-down menu, choose the language that you translated your slide into and Save.
Translating the slide content and setting the slide language

Repeat steps 4 to 6 to to translate all the slides inside your slider. 

When done, add the slider in your default language to a post or page. Then, translate the page. Your translated slider will now appear when switching languages on your site.

Translating Post-Based Sliders

To translate a post-based slider:

  1. Edit your slider and go to the WPML settings.
  2. Open the language dropdown and select All Languages.
selecting all languages in Slider Revolution editor
Selecting all languages in Slider Revolution editor
  1. Finally, go to WPML → Translation Management and send the posts in your slider, and page containing it, for translation.

Your translated post-based slider should now appear on your site when switching languages.

Translating Static Texts in Post-Based Sliders

If you added static text to your slider, like a “Learn More” button, here’s how you can translate it:

  1. Edit your post-based slider and wrap your static text with the wpml-string shortcode. For example, here’s how our “Learn More” text looks within this shortcode:
[wpml-string context="MySlider"]Learn More[/wpml-string]

Remember to replace the “MySlider” and “Learn More” values with your own:

  • MySlider – the text-domain you want to assign to your text
  • Learn More – the text you want to translate in your slider
  1. Save changes once you finish wrapping your text.
  2. Next, go to WPML → Translation Management and scroll to the Other texts (Strings) section.
  3. Select your text and send it for translation.

If you can’t find your text in the Strings section, search for it in String Translation.

Getting Help

Having trouble translating Slider Revolution? Find a fix on our Known Issues and Solutions page.

Still need help? Open a support ticket.