[Closed] Automated Translation for Events Calendar Pro Plugin

Hello,

I'm going to help you get started while a supporter takes your case.

1) In order to provide i better support, I'd greatly appreciate if you could send me the WPML debug information?
You can follow this guide to find it: https://wpml.org/faq/provide-debug-information-faster-support/

I have enabled the correct field for it found on your next reply

2) Is the documentation you checked, the following one, by chance? -> https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/build-multilingual-events-websites-events-calendar-wpml/

Because the thing is that the plugin is fully compatible with us but there are indeed a few known issues which can be seen here: https://wpml.org/plugin/the-events-calendar/ and you should be aware of them so you can apply the workaround if needed.

If you do not see the events as translatable, then yes, you can set the post type as such and translate them, while following the documentation and translating its taxonomies first.

If possible please try to do this on a staging first, for one event alone and then you can do this on the live site, after a proper full backup to always be cautious.

Regards.

Hello!

Right now all I can tell you is that you're using a PHP version that is not compatible with WordPress, so you might expect issues with plugins and themes as well (most of the issues won't break your site but could create "time bombs", issues that will appear out of nowhere later because something didn't work as expected "behind the curtains")

I'd suggest you downgrade PHP to version 8 or 8.1 which are the ones most compatible with WordPress at the moment.

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Then, follow the guides and suggestions i sent before and let me know if you get stuck 🙂

Regards,

Hello,

Please make sure the events are set as "Translatable - Only show translated items" under WPML > Settings > Post Type Translation.

It seems it's in a different setting which won't trigger the automatic translation on them.

You can also allow me access to the site so I can take a closer look, but I think what I mentioned will do the trick.

I suggest that you take the safest route here and choose the option that will only translate new content.

Yes, it might seem like extra work but you will have 100% control on the content that will need to be translated.

However:

- If you translated your content manually BUT inside the advanced translation editor, then they will not be re-translated.

- with the option to translate only the new content, you can still send the old events tat haven't been translated for translation and if they are updated, then you'll have it translated automatically.

See, when you update a page, it will appear as if it was a new version of the page and will trigger the automatic translation, but doing it as I suggest will allow you control over the budget. you can translate them in small groups to see how many credits you'll be using. This way you can also get more control over everything. It's a one-time thing in the end.

To me it's never a good Idea to translate everything right away when you have a lot of content, especially if some of them (like past events) aren't even active anymore so that's something to take into consideration :).

Regards,