Available Solutions

Problem:
I read quite some threads about this topics already, but I am still not sure what is the best option to use in my situation, could you help me?

Some basics:
- We have an English website with a lot of content.
- We want to translate only a part of it (e.g 30% of the pages) into Spanish
- We want to use Advanced Translation Editor
- We use Elementor page builder

So we should be able to:
1. Translate full pages from English into Spanish with the Advanced translator Editor
2. Once a page is translated, go to the Spanish page in Elementor page builder and make some modifications (e.g remove a section or links to pages that don't exist in Spanish. Since only a part of the Website is translated, some sections are linking to non existing content in Spanish and we should remove them.)
3. In the future, when the original English page is updated, we should be able to translate these modifications via the Advanced translator Editor into Spanish.

What is the best process for this?

Option 1: Translate
Option 2: Duplicate
Option 3: Duplicate and "Translate independently"
Option 4: ?

Solution:
In this case, the best alternative is to translate the content manually. Therefore, it would be Option 3: Duplicate and "Translate independently".

If you use the Translation Editor to translate the content, edit the Spanish version with Elementor to have a different design, it'll be overwritten when you make a modification in the original page, and update the translation. You can check by yourself this behavior:

- Translate a page with Advanced Translation Editor or Classic Editor

- Edit manually the translated page with Elementor

- Make a small change to the default page

- Update the translation and check that the edition you made will be overwritten with the original page layout

So, in order to avoid this and use manual translation, please follow these steps:

- Open the page/post you want to translate manually

- In the Language box, turn off WPML’s Translation Editor switch found in the ‘Translate this Document’ section

- In the 'Use the WordPress Editor to translate' pop-up dialog that appears, select 'This page' option

- In the Language box, select the Duplicate checkbox, and then click Duplicate. This will duplicate the page in the selected secondary language

- Click on the pencil icon to edit the page in the other language

- On the editing page of the duplicated page, click 'Translate independently' in the Language box

- Translate the page or edit the design

Please check our documentation related to this subject to understand better the process:
https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/

Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/

Problem:
Learndash courses disappeared from the frontend after updating to WordPress 5.8

Solution:
The debug log file showed the following error:

PHP Fatal error:  Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: element_id and type do not match for element_id:42 the database contains post_attachment while this function was called with post_post in xxxx/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/core-abstract-classes/class-wpml-set-language.php:34

And it was fixed with the following steps:

Go to WPML > Support > Troubleshooting page, then click these options:

- Clear the Cache in WPML
- Remove ghost entries from the translation tables
- Fix element_type collation
- Fix WPML table collation
- Set language information

Problem: MotoPress Hotel Booking Calendar not showing

Solution: It looks like a compatibility issue and translated Accommodation post ID is not synced in Spanish Pages. It works as expected when we specify the ID of translated Accommodation post. So we have to manually translate the Accommodation post ID in translated pages to fix this issue.

Relevant Documentation: https://wpml.org/forums/topic/motopress-hotel-booking-calendar-not-showing/#post-9289811

Problem:
I translate the page and save the translation, but when I go to a page for that language i.e. http://example.com/en/about-us/ the content of the header is still the default.

Solution:
First of all, please go to WPML → Settings → Custom XML Configuration tab and add this XML config to it:

<wpml-config>
    <admin-texts>
        <key name="indutri_theme_options">
            <key name="header_layout"/></key>
    </admin-texts>
</wpml-config>

Once you did this, please edit the header template:
https://website.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=16&action=edit&lang=en

Now, use the top admin language switcher and select Spanish:
https://website.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=22&action=edit&lang=es

Here, edit the Permalink and change fmt-header to fmt-header-es (just simply add -es at the end, so the permalink in each language can be different).

The last step is to go to WPML → String Translation and search for the header template permalink. In the test website is fmt-header. As the translation, just simply add the permalink that you just set, fmt-header-es.

This time, when checking a page in the secondary language, the translated header will be used:
https://website.com/es/

Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/finding-strings-that-dont-appear-on-the-string-translation-page/#strings-arent-selected-for-translation

Problem:

Using Elementor and the price Table widget.

In the "Pricing" section of the widget, I set the Currency Symbol to 'None', and (optionally) added a $ to the 39.99 price. Is there is a way to get WPML to include the price text field for translation via Translation Editor, along with the Heading, Period, Button Text etc?

Solution:

- Go to WPML > Settings > Custom XML configuration and add next XML code:

<wpml-config>
    <elementor-widgets>
        <widget name="price-table">
            <fields>
                <field type="Price Table: Heading" editor_type="LINE">heading</field>
                <field type="Price Table: Sub-Heading" editor_type="LINE">sub_heading</field>
                <field type="price" editor_type="LINE">price</field>
                <field type="Button text" editor_type="LINE">button_text</field>
                <field type="Footer info" editor_type="LINE">footer_additional_info</field>
            </fields>
            <fields-in-item items_of="features_list">
                <field type="Item text" editor_type="LINE">item_text</field>
            </fields-in-item>
        </widget>
    </elementor-widgets>
</wpml-config>

- Make a small change to the default language page and click to update the translation.

Relevant Documentation:

- https://wpml.org/documentation/support/language-configuration-files/how-to-register-page-builder-widgets-for-translation/

Problem:

Pods plugin issue. Custom post-type relationships and files are showing the translation.

Solution:

The Pods plugin is not officially compatible with WPML. We have a few reported compatibilities issues. In this specific case, the user shared the way he was able to solve this issue. Please read it here.

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/custom-post-type-relationships-and-files-not-translated/#post-8750157