Lost translations in translation editor

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August 29, 2025 at 6:20 pm #17358679
Bigul WPML Supporter since 01/2013 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Vienna (GMT+02:00)	Hello, Thank you for the feedback. For new posts and pages, please use the Advanced Translation Editor (ATE). For existing posts and pages that were already translated using the Classic Translation Editor (CTE), please continue to use CTE. This way, none of the current translations will be lost. It is also possible to sync the taxonomies in the existing translations. You can safely add new category terms in the original language posts and then translate them into the secondary languages. If you prefer, you can use PHPMyAdmin to run the SQL query, which should work fine. Also, running the WPML Troubleshooting steps is not mandatory. However, to keep you informed, I also attempted this as part of our testing. -- Thanks! Bigul

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August 29, 2025 at 6:20 pm #17358679

Bigul

WPML Supporter since 01/2013

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Vienna (GMT+02:00)

Hello,

Thank you for the feedback. For new posts and pages, please use the Advanced Translation Editor (ATE). For existing posts and pages that were already translated using the Classic Translation Editor (CTE), please continue to use CTE. This way, none of the current translations will be lost.

It is also possible to sync the taxonomies in the existing translations. You can safely add new category terms in the original language posts and then translate them into the secondary languages.

If you prefer, you can use PHPMyAdmin to run the SQL query, which should work fine.

Also, running the WPML Troubleshooting steps is not mandatory. However, to keep you informed, I also attempted this as part of our testing.

--
Thanks!

Bigul