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Last updated by Christopher Amirian 1 year, 8 months ago.

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October 6, 2023 at 2:03 pm #14529171

computerS

Tell us what you are trying to do?
For certain pages, we need to italicize words that are in English in the translated text (i.e. Names of places, Organizations, etc). Since the words aren't italicized in the original, the Advanced Translations Editor doesn't offer the tag when doing the translation. We need to be able to do this quickly and simply, because we don't have the manpower to go back and manually translate all the affected strings, or manually translate all of our pages into all of the languages necessary.

It would also be very helpful to be able to use the Advanced Translations Editor to translate the href portion of a link to point to a different page. This does not seem like it is possible currently.

I am aware that you can go into the Strings Translation and make these changes. However, if you go back into Advanced Translations Editor and make further changes, it removes any of the manual edits you made. This is not ideal.

Is there any documentation that you are following? No

Is there a similar example that we can see? In the footer of our site (hidden link), we have manually translated the text so that the appropriate foreign words will be in italics.

What is the link to your site? hidden link

October 8, 2023 at 2:38 pm #14534933

Christopher Amirian
WPML Supporter since 07/2020

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)

Hi there,

Unfortunately, it is not possible with the Advanced Translation Editor. It keeps whatever styling you use in the original language and you can not change style of the translated one.

I know you mentioned it will be hard work but that is the only thing that I can suggest which is a manual translation for the pages that you have such a need:

https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/

That means you will need to turn off Advanced Translation Editor for those pages and use the native WordPress editor for the translated pages instead.

For the links, if they are referring to a page or post inside the website it should do the automatic translation to link to the proper translation of that post or page.

If you are talking about the links that go outside of your website you can search for them in the Advanced translation editor and translate them if you want, using the method below:

https://wpml.org/faq/how-to-translate-urls-shortcodes-and-html-attributes-using-the-advanced-translation-editor/

Thanks.

October 16, 2023 at 6:52 pm #14588219

computerS

Thanks for your reply - you provided me with some ideas on how to procede. We would also like to suggest considering adding a way to make basic formatting changes to translations in future updates (i.e. bold, italics), because it tends to be a helpful way to indicate which words are translated and which ones are not.