In the Advanced Editor (left column, right column) is it possible that in the "Source language" (left column) instead of the German version an English version is in there? Because our translation agency can only translate from English to French, but not from German to French.
Is it because of the default page language? If I change this to EN, do I run the risk that the default language when calling the website is then /en/, after the default language should be German?
The Advanced Translation Editor will use the default language that was used when the page was created.
So you would need to first create the page straight from the backend of the language that you want (switch to the language that you want to be the source language from the top area of the WordPress backend, then create the initial page in that language). After that, you can try to translate.
I hope that you will find this information helpful. 🙂
thanks for your fast reply! 🙂
As soon as I switch to FR and create a new page that not exists so far in this language, I see "German" in the left and "Empty fields" for FR in the right column for translation. So I dont think this works.
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The URL that you shared with me is redirecting me here: hidden link
However, I checked in our internal system and I was able to find that the page this translation job is created from is this: hidden link
Also, it seems that the source language of this page is DE and the target language is French (attaching screenshot).
So, as long as this page was initially created in DE (German), there's no way it can show EN on the left column.
Just to also give an example, I went to the EN backend (hidden link) and I created a new page called "WPML Test".
This is the URL: hidden link
If I now click on "+" to add a FR translation (attaching screenshot), you will see now that the correct language for the "Original language" table is "English" because this page was initially created from EN backend (attaching another screenshot but you can also see it here in the job URL: hidden link).
I hope that this better explains why you are seeing German as the "Original language".
Please let me know how things go and if there's anything you think I'm missing here.
Mihai
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