[Escalated to WPML Developers team] Bulk translate existing pages to Spanish slugs using their title

Hello,

In your staging site, can you please try this workaround?

In wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/inc/translation-jobs/helpers/wpml-save-translation-data-action.class.php

after line 184 add this:

					if ( $sitepress->get_setting( 'translated_document_page_url' ) == "auto-generate" ) {
						$postarr['post_name'] = sanitize_title_with_dashes($wpdb->get_var(
							$wpdb->prepare(
								"SELECT post_title
																			 FROM {$wpdb->posts}
																			 WHERE ID=%d
																			 LIMIT 1",
								$element_id
							))
						);
					}

Then, resend the page to translate, and it should get back with the slug generated from the translated title.

Take into account that this will happen to all the pages you send for translation.

You may implement it, re-send all the pages you need to change the slug, and then revert it.

Let me know if it worked for you and if it helps.

Best Regards,
Otto

Hello,

My colleague Otto is on vacation, which is why I am assisting you today.

The problem here might be, that you have set slugs to "Translate" which will make them appear inside the WPML Translation Editor.

Once the slugs are translated automatically, they are saved inside the translation memory of the Advanced Translation Editor.

Now, you switched the setting to "Auto-generate from title" which should lead to the fact, that the slug no longer exists on the translation editor.

But in order to update the UI of the Advanced Translation Editor, you would need to edit the original title or maybe even the slug of the original page, then save the page again.

This will change the translation status to "Update needed" and then the automatic translation should complete the translation without translating the slug again.

The automatic translation might not update anything if the status of the page is "Completed" when sending it again to automatic translation.

Please give this a try and let me know if further assistance is needed.

Best regards
Andreas

There is nothing else I can offer at this point and I believe my last comment very explained the possible issue in regards to ATE's translation memory.

Could you please follow my suggestion?

You can bulk edit any posts and pages in WordPress. Updating the original posts or pages should trigger the translation status to "Update needed" and remove the slug from ATE's translation memory. Then update the translations.

My apologies, I was consulting the second tier support as I was going to provide a workaround for this specific issue, but this is somehow out of scope for me or the second their support.

The issue has been escalated to the dev team already and will be properly solved in a future update for WPML.