Translate media with Translation Management

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This topic contains 9 replies, has 2 voices.

Last updated by Kor 2 months, 2 weeks ago.

Assisted by: Kor.

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September 9, 2024 at 2:00 pm #16156993
Kresimir	Background of the issue: I am working on a site under development and trying to send media to translation via Translation Management in WPML. Symptoms: The dropdown in the Dashboard tab in Translation Management doesn't include media as an option. Questions: How can I send media to translation via Translation Management?
September 9, 2024 at 3:18 pm #16157311
Kor Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for reaching us. It should look like the attached if you wish to translate media from a page/post. Could you recheck? Here is a test page I prepared for you to play with hidden link
September 10, 2024 at 12:54 pm #16161591
Kresimir	But how about media that is not attached to any post/page or CPT?
September 10, 2024 at 1:53 pm #16161922
Kor Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your reply. When you upload an image directly to WP > Media > Add new Media File, the image will show up for translation in WPML > Media Translation. You can give this a try on the sandbox site that I've prepared here. hidden link
September 12, 2024 at 8:21 am #16169476
Kresimir	I know that but I need to send it to a translation service via Translation Management. Can I do that?
September 12, 2024 at 8:22 am #16169481
Kor Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately, that is not possible. Let me know if you have any other questions.
September 12, 2024 at 11:04 am #16170378
Kresimir	Yes I do :)... what to do with a bunch of images our Client uploaded and needs to send them to their translation service?
September 12, 2024 at 12:30 pm #16170929
Kor Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your reply. What you can do would be to upload all images into a post and then, send it for translation using the Translation Management.
September 12, 2024 at 1:53 pm #16171485
Kresimir	Yes but some of the images in question that are upload are being used in posts as featured images or in ACF fields and re uploading them will not fix that problem but will cause additional work. Also it's a lot of images :)... Sry I don't want to be a pain but workarounds like this don't help. Especially since there is no easy way to fix this without changing a big amount of already created content. I was expecting to be able to translate everything using the translation service in a consistent way or at least not to have to edit a lot of exiting content.
September 12, 2024 at 1:56 pm #16171509
Kor Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your reply. I understand your situation. Unfortunately, there isn't an alternative solution at the moment. However, I’ll submit this as a feature request for our developers to review. They may consider adding a feature that could make it easier for you to achieve what you need in the future.

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