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Last updated by gloccos 2 hours, 44 minutes ago.

Assisted by: Ahmed Mamdouh.

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July 10, 2025 at 10:01 am #17222906

gloccos

Background of the issue:
In WPML, in the Translation Management section under the Translation Dashboard tab, I selected the translation from EN to SK and sent them to MateCat via Assign translation service. In MateCat, I translated, checked, and properly closed all the jobs. In WPML, I used the 'Check status and get translations' button to pull all translated jobs back into WPML, and all jobs were marked as finished.

Symptoms:
After viewing the SK version of the site, the translations appeared different from the ones completed in MateCat, looking like they were machine translated without our editing.

Questions:
Why are the translations on the SK version of the site different from the ones completed in MateCat?
How can I ensure that the edited translations from MateCat are correctly displayed on the site?

July 10, 2025 at 11:37 am #17223545

gloccos

We can not try clicking "Check status and get translations" again to re-sync because in the meantime they have already been archived in matecat and in WPML assigned to the translator for "manual" revision directly via WPML

July 10, 2025 at 3:40 pm #17224830

Ahmed Mamdouh
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Arabic (العربية )

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+03:00)

Hello,

Thanks for contacting our support forum.

Supposedly, the translation you made in Matecat should be exactly the same as the website, so could you please go to WPML -> Translation Management -> Jobs and send me a screenshot from the jobs tab with a highlight on the job that has the issue?

Also, if you can show me the difference between the translation in Matecat and the website in screenshots, that will help me understand the case here.

Best regards,
Ahmed Mamdouh.

July 11, 2025 at 12:44 pm #17228059

gloccos

Hi, those jobs are completed, so we can't see them in the Jobs tab anymore.
Screesnshots from our SK website (after importing translations from matecat) and from completed matecat job - totally different.

web-sk.jpg
matecat_EN-SK.png
July 11, 2025 at 12:49 pm #17228108

gloccos

More screenshots.

Screenshot_11-7-2025_14367_www.matecat.com 1.jpeg
Screenshot_11-7-2025_143451_e.ate.wpml.org 1.jpeg
July 11, 2025 at 1:25 pm #17228432

Ahmed Mamdouh
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Arabic (العربية )

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+03:00)

Hello,

Thanks for providing the screenshots.
Supposedly, you can see the job in the jobs tab even if it's completed.

As I can see in the screenshots you provided that you are using the ATE.

ATE(Automatic translation editor) behaves like a professional translation service, and it cannot get the data that was translated by other professional translation services.
To see the translation you need, you'll need to use the CTE (Classic Translation Editor).

You can change the editor settings by going to WPML -> Settings, scrolling to the "How to translate posts and pages" section and choosing the editor you want.

On another note, We are not recommending using different translation methods for the same page at the same time because it is going to cause some confusion and most probably it is the cause of the issue you have right now.

So, for the case here, you translated the about page using Matecat translation service and using the ATE (automatic translation Editor) which is two different methods and each one of them has it is own translation memory, which caused the problem you mentioned.

So please make sure to use only one Translation method at a time, and make sure if you want to review translations that come from the MateCat translation service, review them in the CTE, not in ATE.

Best regards,
Ahmed Mamdouh.

July 14, 2025 at 7:46 am #17231895

gloccos

Hi Ahmed,

I hope you are doing great!

Is there any chance we could get a step by step guide how to push the translations from Matecat to web?

This is a must for us as we plan on using WPML a lot in near future.

With regards

July 14, 2025 at 7:48 am #17231911

gloccos

Second problem which is being investigated is that in the automated process of pushing the files from the WPML into MateCAT and back, it is not possible to use LARA, which is giving the better results than default (and only) option Modern MT Lite. If the files are added manually into the MateCAT, LARA can be used, however we do have a problem to upload them translated back into WPML.