I installed the WPML to my website, but I dont know why all content (pages and posts) were added to the second original language instead of the original one. Now I have over 600 posts in the portuguese category, instead of english, which is the correct one.
Reference to our recent chat, I've enabled your next reply as private to provide access details for the staging/dev site. So I can continue investigation without risking the live site.
Thank you for the updated access, I was able to login.
Meanwhile I am working on this, can you please confirm that if it is OK to create a duplicator of the package? In case if it is needed by the 2nd tier team for installing and investigating in an other environment.
Duplicator is a plugin (https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/) which allows you to copy your site into an installable package. This package can be used to install the website at another place (i.e. on local or another host).
I discussed with the team and this isn't generally possible to duplicate posts from Secondary Language to Primary Language using Translation Management (as we tried during the chat).
However, it can be achieved by running some queries directly on the DB. I tried these but looks like there's already content which you have translated.
So the question is, do you want to retain what you have already translated? We'll proceed accordingly. Otherwise 'll use different approach.
I'll advise if you want to reset, try it on the staging site first. However, if you don't reply me for the above mentioned and I'll continue with that DB approach on the staging site.
What it DB? I have translated a few pages, and some posts of the website are considered english, which is weird since I did nothing.
I really dont want to scrap all work done translating my pages, so that option isnt going to work...
I, with the help of my team, have investigated the issue in very much detail. We also tried to fix the issue manually but it requires so much manual and custom work.
Let me explain:
- There are hundreds of posts in Secondary Language (Portuguese), without their counterparts in Primary Language (English).
- Also there are lot of translated content from English to Portuguese.
- This has created relevant (lot of) entries in the translation tables (in the database).
Given the situation, it is not easy to apply unified queries on the database to move posts from secondary language to the primary. While it requires to handle each post individually, thus needing custom work.
Unfortunately, this goes out of scope of this forum.
There are following alternatives to deal with this at this point:
B) Create the same post in English and connect it with Portuguese counterpart (https://wpml.org/faq/how-to-link-already-translated-pages/). Repeat for each post manually. Then either you can translate Portuguese posts manually by replacing their content or can delete Portuguese posts (from trash as well) and translate from English.
C) Start afresh:
- Reset WPML
- Do the cleanup
- Configure and set correct default language
- This moves all post to English
- Manually adjust and change language of post that need to be PT and connect manually to their original EN page
Besides the above, WPML offers filters and action hooks that can be used to achieve any custom requirements. Browse following resources for more information:
The page I had for reviewing translation that was showing a page list isnt showing anything anymore. I need to use the automatic translation to only review, not manually translate everything by myself.
This is what I was using: hidden link
