we are relaunching our website which has WPML installed. A relaunch is necessary since the old website got hacked and is buggy. Therefore we can't just copy the old website, since malicious files will be probably also copied.
We would like to set up everything from scratch and only copy certain things. I need your help with this approach.
- What is the best way to proceed? First install and configure WPML and then import the content or the other way around (first the content and then WPML)?
- What about the SEO Yoast content. Will this information also be taken into account when we copy the pages from the old website?
- Is there any import/export function from WPML?
Thank you for contacting our support service. Do you plan to import the translated content as well? If so, I would recommend you the following procedures (it would required a bit o manual effort).
1 - Import your content, including your pages, posts, etc.
WPML doesn't offere an import/export feature as it would be basically what WordPress already offers, in this case, as said it would be needed to assign each posts to their correct language. As regarding Yoast content, if you export your posts keeping all these informations, then chances are this content will be also imported properly.
Yes, we are planning to import the translated content as well. I understand your approach and there is no problem for us to do it this way.
But wouldn't it be faster and without that much manual effort, do configure WPML first in the new wesbite and then just import the translated content from the old website? Shouldn't WPML then already see that it's translated content and assign it to the different languages?
Thank you for the updates. Yes, it would work too, just make sure WPML is exactly setup as you had in your previous website with the same language choices, otherwise you could have issues in the proper post relation from default language to secondary languages. Hope it helps, have a nice day.
