[Resolved] Match multilanguage woocommerce products, categories and tags after import

Hello.

I can confirm that if you have uploaded different products as separate/not-linked items, these will need to be manually "connected".

What we would have suggested is that you first import the original products and then import the rest as "translations".

This approach is covered in our documnetation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/wpml-all-import-plugin-website-import-with-wpml/

At this point, you could "start over" or manually connect the products.

I wait for your feedback.

It appears that you will need to use the native Woocommerce editor and then use the option "Connect withTranlsations" in the sidebar (see image).

Have you tried this?

Hmmm. We don´t have the exact documentation you are looking for.

1. You wrote: "I'm connecting secondary languages posts with my default language post. Is that correct?"

Answer: Yes.

Explanation:
WPML "knits" translations together using entries in the icl_translations table. All translations are connected via a field called "trid". When you connect with a translation, you are effectively creating an entry in this table. The two translations are connected via a common "trid".

2. You wrote: " I don't understand what it means when it says,"Make English the original language for this product"

Answer:
This will affect the way that product specific information is synchronised. The direction of the synchronisation will always be from the "original" language of the product towards the "translations". Some product information is not accessible to translations. These include pricing and stock. You can have an "original" product in a language that is different from the system default language. It is simply asking you which language version the master data of the product will be maintained in.

3. You wrote: "I don't know how to connect categories, since I also have categories in multiple languages."

You can connect categories in the same way you do posts/products (see image). To copy the category assignments "over" to translated products, you would then go and "update" the original products. The act of "updating" the original product should trigger the WPML actions to copy the taxonomy assignments over to the translated product.

Does this answer your question?

In both cases, you should be able to go to that same field in the "translated" (e.g. not original) object and select that it is a translation of "none". (see image) When you update the category or product, the reverse steps will happen and the category/product will no longer be connected as a translation.

Note, for the product, you would need to use the Woocommerce native editor to do this as the field to do this is not accessible through the Translation Editor.

I hope this is clear.