Hi, I am trying to translate my site into German via automatic translation. Page slugs are translated and I can not influence this at all. Please assist.
Here is a page hidden link
What WPML does: hidden link
What I need: hidden link
In the settings there is still no most demanded options available. I just need to PRESERVE the original page slug. That's all.
If I go to "edit translation", I see ATE table, but there is no possibility to access the slug translation.
What I need:
- possibility to make automatic translations for selected pages via translation management.
- PRESERVE all pages slugs (not to translate slugs, leave original slugs, just adding language code in front of them).
Plase read the first message carefully and check the screenshots attached.
I attached exact screenshot of this setting in the initial appeal, it only works for encoded urls, at least it says that:
Copy from original language _if translation language uses encoded URLs_
Obviously, no one is using encoded urls. Instead I use normal links with readable slug, like this: hidden link
And in this case with this option engaged the page hidden link
is translated into this
(note the German translation of the word "robot" which became "roboter" at the end of the string): hidden link
I need this: hidden link
For German language it's not so bad, but for Chineese or Korean - it's a total disaster.
Some time ago there was a possibility to manually adjust the slug in ATE via "edit translation" button. It was terribly inconvenient (I have around 60 pages and 14 languages, so I had to do monkey job 840 times). Not event that workaround seems to be not possible, at least I can not find slug in ATE any more.
What am I supposed to do? Or may be what am I doing wrong?
If you want to translate the page slug in ATE, please select the option "Translate (this will include the slug in the translation and not create it automatically from the title)".
Then edit the page > Make a small change to the page content > Save changes > Update the translation in ATE.
If you want to copy the page slug from English to German, please go to WPML > Languages > Edit languages > Enable Encode URL for German. If not, I'm afraid that there isn't an option to copy the page slug from the original language to a second language in all cases.
