Changing automatic translation translation main language, for secondary language

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Last updated by Laura 1 month, 3 weeks ago.

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June 17, 2025 at 9:08 am #17141441
Martin Nissen	Background of the issue: My site's main language is Danish, with English, German, and Spanish as secondary languages. I want to automatically translate content to Spanish from English instead of Danish. Symptoms: Currently, I can only send the translation from English to Spanish manually, not automatically. Questions: How can I set WPML to automatically translate Spanish content from English instead of Danish?
June 17, 2025 at 11:27 am #17142080
Dražen Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)	Hello, Thanks for contacting us. While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly. It is not possible by default, one way would be to reset WPML and then set your WPML default language as Spanish and then translate. Or you can try to go to WPML > Translation Management, in source language choose Spanish and then find post and send them to automatic translation. Regards, Drazen
June 18, 2025 at 6:29 am #17144667
Martin Nissen	In that case, is it possible to set spanish to not be automatically translated, and then make a cronjob to send it for translation from english?
June 19, 2025 at 1:32 pm #17150914
Laura WPML Supporter since 05/2018 Languages: English (English ) Italian (Italiano ) Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)	Hi, unfortunately, that's not possible. At the moment Translate Everything translates into all languages and you can't skip one. What you're asking for would require a lot of custom coding, which we cannot support.