[Resolved] DeepL translation from secondary to primary content

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.

If you have not yet started, I would advise setting up and using WPML with German as the default language, and then translating your pages to English. You can set the translation engine and automatic translation mode from WPML > Settings.

Then when all of the translations are done, you can change WPML default language from WPML > Languages (it affects only the front) and have en on domain.com and de on domain.com/de.

That is the best I can suggest since it is not possible to use an automatic translation from non default language to another / default language.

Another way is sending pages to translation and using automatic translation from inside the WPML ATE editor: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translate-pages-in-wordpress-with-wpml/

Regards,
Drazen

Hello,

About automatic translations:

There are practically three ways to translate automatically with WPML.

- Translate everything automatically in the background
- Translated selected content automatically by sending it to automatic translation from the Translation Management Dashboard
- Translate automatically by using automatic translation inside the Advanced Translation Editor.

Until now, you can only translate automatically from site default language into other languages.

If you let WPML create the translation in the background, this means, you are using the mode "Translate everything automatically" at WPML > Settings > Translation Mode.

If you switch the setting to "Translate What You Choose" you will be able to control what will be translated and when.

This way you can create jobs at WPML > Translation Management > Dashboard, even by changing the source language of the content that you would like to translate. You could this way create jobs, assign them to a local translator.

The translator will then access the job at WPML > Translations and can use the automatic translation when creating the translation on the Advanced Translation Editor.

The problem is, you can only translate yourself, means you can not direclty send it to automatic translation, but you can create a job, then access it a WPML > Translations and use the automatic translation feature inside the Advanced Translation Editor.

This will change in the upcoming update for WPML 4.7, which would then allow to translate German content automatically simply by sending it to translation from the Translation Management Dashboard. This will work even if the site default language is English, but WPML will not translate the German content automatically in the background without your interaction.

Only content in created in site default language will be automatically translated in the background.

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About the site URL format:

If you set the site default language to German, then German will be at domain.com and English would be at domain.com/en.

You could in this case enable a language direcotry for the site default language and German would be at domain.com/de while English remains at domain.com/en.

Guide:
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/directory-default-language/

It is not possible to use domain.com for English if it is not set as site default language.

Best regards
Andreas

The WPML 4.7 Beta is currently available for testing. I suggest you take a backup of your site before procceding.

Go to Plugins > Add new > Commercial and click "Search for WPML Updates".

Now use the dropdown and switch from "Production" to "Beta" channel.

You should now be able to install and activate the WPML Multilingual 4.7 Beta and also install the available addon (String Translation, WCML, ACFML, etc.)