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Last updated by Bobby 50 minutes ago.

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March 24, 2025 at 4:50 pm #16852157

Ciprian Tepes

Background of the issue:
I am trying to import a feed of products and translate them automatically using WPML. The issue can be seen at hidden link.

Symptoms:
Some products are stuck and cannot be translated. Additionally, the translated products do not show the image gallery.

Questions:
Why are some products stuck and not translating?
Why do the translated products not show the image gallery?

March 25, 2025 at 8:49 pm #16859897

Bobby
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Hi there,

How are the products imported and is the image gallery created using a custom element or is it the native WooCommerce gallery?

March 26, 2025 at 9:20 pm #16865657

Ciprian Tepes

I have a bigger problem now.

The feed I imported is in English and it had to translate into Romanian. I did a test import of a couple of products, then 100, then 200 and finally decided it is fine to translate everything so I let it run.

70000+ credits were removed and I have the english version for both english and romanian when I decided to let the feed get parsed.

I need my transltions. Now I have no translations and minus 70000 credits ..... !!!

March 26, 2025 at 11:02 pm #16865771

Bobby
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Hi Ciprian,

I am taking a look at this, for you. Can you please share with me some examples were you imported in English with goal to tranlsate into Romanian and it ended up with both languages in English but still costing you credits ?

For example looking here
hidden link

I can see that it was translated OK

If I have specific pages (do not need to share all just a few examples) I can verify in the backend to see what was charged

March 27, 2025 at 6:27 am #16866113

Ciprian Tepes

Hey Bobby, so, I imported products by limiting the number of posts first to 100, then 200 then 500 and when I saw that generally everything was fine, I removed the limit. That is when the hell broke loose.

hidden link - this url is supposed to show romanian

hidden link this is showing romanian as it should - the title isnțt translated though

The screenshot below is the very first product imported and now I noticed that the language at the top is switched although the setting in WP All Import was set to English

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March 28, 2025 at 9:35 am #16871691

Ciprian Tepes

I really need your help on this one.

March 29, 2025 at 9:28 pm #16875824

Bobby
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

i reviewed this URL hidden link and can confirm that only 12 credits were used even though the product has around 400+ words.

That is because the translation memory was used for the rest of the translations.

Loom video:
hidden link

P.S -- When importing it is best to do it in stages rather whenever possible to avoid any issues that could come from thousands of products.

I would like to request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to your site to test the issue.
(preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible)

**Before we proceed It is necessary to take FULL BACKUP of your database and your website. Providing us with access, you agree that a backup has been taken **

I often use the Duplicator plugin for this purpose: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
You will find the needed fields for this below the comment area when you log in to leave your next reply.
The information you enter is private which means only you and I have access to it.

NOTE: If access to the live site is not possible and the staging site does not exist please provide me with a duplicator package created with the duplicator plugin.

Thank you,
Bobby

March 31, 2025 at 8:35 pm #16880885

Bobby
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Thank you for the access details!

I found that the languages are mapped wrong, English is mapped to Romanian and Romanian to English.

Please see my screencast, make these changes and let me know your results.

hidden link

April 3, 2025 at 3:40 am #16889623

Ciprian Tepes

Thank you, Bobby. I'm working on the issue. I found one product that still shows the reversed languages. I'm going to post here in this thread again when I'm done.

April 3, 2025 at 6:39 pm #16894615

Bobby
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)

Thank you for updating me! Let me know if you need further assistance from us once you are done.