[Resolved] Copying items from primary to secondary languages using Elementor

Hello,

There are two methods to translate your content:

1) With the WordPress Editor:

You can create a duplicate with WPML if a transition does not yet exist.

A duplicate will always get overwritten with the original content once the original content gets updated.

If you then would like to edit this duplicate as a manual translation created on the WordPress Editor, then you set the duplicate to "Translate independently".

Also, you can not duplicate and instead use the WordPress Editor as a translation method for the content. Then on the translated content's WordPress Editor, you choose "Copy content from.." then open Elementor and save the page.

Take note, that this will overwrite the whole content of the page and replace it with the original content, but it will not create a duplicate.

Those are the only methods, that WPML offers in this case, in order to copy content from the original language to translations.

2) The WPML Translation Editor

Here you see your whole site content inside the WPML Translation Editor and you will need to complete all the fields and mark the job to 100% completed. If you need the same content in both languages you can simply copy the original value to the translated field.

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You can not use both methods at the same time, as the WPML Translation Editor does not recognize the changes taken on the translation inside the WordPress Editor.

This means, that if you edit a translation inside the WordPress Editor and then translate the content with the WPML Translation Editor your edits will be lost.

Best regards
Andreas

Hello,

Thank you for your message.

First, make sure that the post categories are translated at WPML > Taxonomy Translations.

Important:
Check the bottom section of that page and make sure that the category labels and most important the category base slug (part of the URL) are translated.

Then make sure to translate the page again.

If this will still not solve the issue, go to the translated page, open Elementor and try to set the correct category manually inside the widget.

Further, please let me know:

Which widget is it that you are using? is it a default Elementor Widget?

Best regards
Andreas