[Resolved] Change original language in translation

Hi there.

Please take a look at the recommendation in this existing ticket here:
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/use-different-language-to-auto-translate/

I think that should properly guide you to accomplish what you want.

Mihai Apetrei

Hi Virginie.

Please accept my apologies. I definitely understood your request from the very beginning but the tool I am using for our documentation and existing ticket URLs somehow took the wrong URL instead of the one that I wanted to share with you.

I replaced the URL above.

Please check it once again now.

Thank you for your understanding and sorry once again.

Mihai

Hi there.

Sorry, it seems that the user has set their ticket as private.

I was not aware of that.

One of the tickets I worked on related to this exact same topic was this:
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/how-can-i-use-automatic-translation-from-other-languages/

But that option would work only when the source language of the content is the default language.

You can definitely accomplish what you want for your situation, too, if, instead of sending to automatic translation from WPML > Translation Management, you select the option called "Translate myself" > and then you go to WPML > Translations > and select "Translate".

If you don't need to do this in bulk and you can do this one by one, for now, then that's possible.

In regards to doing this in bulk, at the moment I know that our team is still working on that feature, and, as much as I would love to share with you a time estimate of when that feature will be delivered, I can't because we, supporters, don't have access to that kind of information and there are a lot of fixes that are worked on daily by our developers, taking into consideration how big is our database of customers and plugins that support WPML.

All the issues and feature requests are split into priority levels, and they are handled and launched based on that.

I am also sharing some screenshots below so that you can see an example from a test site where I tested what I shared with you above.

On this test website, my default language was English. What I did though, is that I switched to Italian from the top bar in the backend of the site, then I went to Pages, and I created a new page straight from the Italian backend so that the Italian language will be the source language of that page (if I would have created that page from under the English backend, the source language would have been set to English).

Then, I went to WPML > Translation Management > I made sure that, at the top in the bar, I was on the Italian backend > then I selected the page that I created straight from the Italian backend > I selected the "Translate myself" option > I sent it to the translation queue > and then I went to WPML > Translations > I clicked on the "Translate" button for the Italian to Romanian translation > and, as long as you have available automatic translation credits, you can use the button at the top (you will see a button instead of the warning that you see in my screenshot) > and you can use that option to translate your content.

I hope that you will find all this information that I shared with you helpful 🙂

Please let me know how things go.

Mihai