Problem:
I read quite some threads about this topics already, but I am still not sure what is the best option to use in my situation, could you help me?
Some basics:
- We have an English website with a lot of content.
- We want to translate only a part of it (e.g 30% of the pages) into Spanish
- We want to use Advanced Translation Editor
- We use Elementor page builder
So we should be able to:
1. Translate full pages from English into Spanish with the Advanced translator Editor
2. Once a page is translated, go to the Spanish page in Elementor page builder and make some modifications (e.g remove a section or links to pages that don't exist in Spanish. Since only a part of the Website is translated, some sections are linking to non existing content in Spanish and we should remove them.)
3. In the future, when the original English page is updated, we should be able to translate these modifications via the Advanced translator Editor into Spanish.
What is the best process for this?
Option 1: Translate
Option 2: Duplicate
Option 3: Duplicate and "Translate independently"
Option 4: ?
Solution:
In this case, the best alternative is to translate the content manually. Therefore, it would be Option 3: Duplicate and "Translate independently".
If you use the Translation Editor to translate the content, edit the Spanish version with Elementor to have a different design, it'll be overwritten when you make a modification in the original page, and update the translation. You can check by yourself this behavior:
- Translate a page with Advanced Translation Editor or Classic Editor
- Edit manually the translated page with Elementor
- Make a small change to the default page
- Update the translation and check that the edition you made will be overwritten with the original page layout
So, in order to avoid this and use manual translation, please follow these steps:
- Open the page/post you want to translate manually
- In the Language box, turn off WPML’s Translation Editor switch found in the ‘Translate this Document’ section
- In the 'Use the WordPress Editor to translate' pop-up dialog that appears, select 'This page' option
- In the Language box, select the Duplicate checkbox, and then click Duplicate. This will duplicate the page in the selected secondary language
- Click on the pencil icon to edit the page in the other language
- On the editing page of the duplicated page, click 'Translate independently' in the Language box
- Translate the page or edit the design
Please check our documentation related to this subject to understand better the process:
https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/
Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/
