Connecting german and english translation using the api

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Problem:
The client is creating German and English profile pages using the WordPress API and the WPML language attribute. However, these pages are not connected in WordPress, resulting in the language switcher not being available on the pages. The client wishes to programmatically mark pages as translations of each other using the API.
Solution:
We recommend connecting the pages either using the following hook or manually:

If you are using the REST API, WPML does not provide a direct method for this. However, you can create a custom REST API endpoint that utilizes the

wpml_set_element_language_details

hook to set a page as a translation of another. If this is beyond your technical capabilities, you may consider hiring a developer:
https://wpml.org/contractors/

If this solution does not seem relevant to your situation, please open a new support ticket here: WPML support forum.

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Last updated by Christopher Amirian 1 year, 5 months ago.

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January 29, 2024 at 1:39 pm #15238537
zentralerE	We are creating german and english profile pages using the WordPress API and the wmpl language attribute. Our problem is now, that those german and english pages are not connected in WordPress, therefore the language switcher is not available on the pages. Is there any way to programmatically (e.g. with the api) to mark to pages as translations of each other?
January 29, 2024 at 1:49 pm #15238607
Dražen Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)	Hi, Thank you for contacting WPML support. While you are waiting for one of my colleagues to take this ticket and work on it, let me provide you with the first debugging steps or if I can help with the issue quickly. The best way would be to either connect them via the next hook or manually, please check the related docs: - https://wpml.org/wpml-hook/wpml_set_element_language_details/ - https://wpml.org/faq/how-to-link-already-translated-pages/ Regards, Drazen
January 29, 2024 at 3:19 pm #15239357
zentralerE	Hi, thank you for the quick response. The first link helps me to understand how to do it in wordpress, maybe in a plugin. But we are using the wordpress api to create the pages and it would be nice to also use the api to connect those pages.
January 30, 2024 at 8:40 am #15242004
Christopher Amirian WPML Supporter since 07/2020 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi there, If you mean the REST API, then WPML does not have any method there to help. But you can create a custom REST API yourself where you can utilize the hook my colleague mentioned there as the PHP backend work: https://wpml.org/wpml-hook/wpml_set_element_language_details/ The hook above is the only way that you can set a page to be a translation of another page. So if you use REST API, you need to create a custom one, that exposes the same Hook in question to that custom REST API for doing that. If it is not what you can do, you can consider hiring a developer to do that for you: https://wpml.org/contractors/ Thanks.
February 2, 2024 at 7:25 am #15257983
zentralerE	Hi, thank you for the explanation. I think we have all necessary components and can implement it from here. Best regards.