WPML Multilingual CMS 4.8.0

Features

• Renamed Translation Management to Translation Dashboard.
• Integrated site context information for AI translation in the wizard and automatic translation settings.
• Improved credit estimates for content selected for automatic translation from the Translation Dashboard.
• Enhanced the warning when WPML does not meet the minimum requirements.
• Improved the flow when translating content from different sources using the Advanced Translation Editor.
• Simplified Media Translation settings with smart detection for page builders and other content types.
• Prevented media duplication by enabling on-demand duplication during translation.
• Added a new troubleshooting option in WPML → Support → Troubleshooting to clean up old translation data and reduce the size of the *_icl_translate and *_icl_translation_status tables.
• Enhanced the site migration flow to address credit assignment issues.
• Improved frontend accessibility: added support for screen readers and focus management, and enhanced accessibility for forms and labels.
• It is now allowed to have the same term slug in different languages.

Compatibility

• Translation jobs now also include the website's internal links.
• Fixed a fatal error when decoding certain shortcode attributes with PHP 8.
• Fixed an edge case where a translation could be overwritten with the original after changing its status to "Publish".
• [Gutenberg] Added support to translate overridden pattern fields.
• [Gutenberg] Fixed an issue where the Page List block would display no results when a parent page is assigned.
• [Gutenberg] You can now use the Advanced Translation Editor to translate texts associated with images that are embedded using shortcodes.
• [Elementor] Fixed synchronization of Page Settings → Advanced → Custom CSS in translations that were done using a translation editor.
• [Elementor] Fixed the translation of links in widgets.
• [Elementor] Added support for path notation for repeater fields in the XML configuration file.
• [Elementor] Fixed the translation of links in the Social Icons widget.
• [Elementor] Fixed the builder UI language when editing translations.
• [Essential Addons for Elementor] Added support for translating the pop-up reference conversion in the Team Member widget.
• [Divi] Added a popup that inform users about potential overwriting when editing WPML-translated or WPML-created content using the front-end Divi editor.
• [Divi] Fixed an issue with ID conversion in dynamic links.
• [Uncode WPBakery] Fixed the translation of meta information in the Image widget.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue with receiving automatic translation jobs when object caching is enabled.
• Fixed an issue with Elementor field_options translation when translated using the Classic Translation Editor.
• Fixed an issue where the language switcher shortcode was disabled after being translated using the Classic Translation Editor.
• Fixed an issue where a page was charged multiple times when using automatic translation.
• Fixed a PHP warning that appeared when the admin language was not set to English.
• Fixed an issue with translation jobs getting stuck in "Waiting for Translation" after automatic translation was triggered.
• Fixed a PHP fatal error on saving translations related to PHP 8.3 when zend.max_allowed_stack_size is reached.
• Fixed an issue where media custom fields were not available for translation.
• Fixed mismatched locales for certain languages in WPML compared to WordPress.
• Fixed incorrect media duplication triggered for non-attachment post types.