Contesto del problema:
Hi, I'm using WPML 4.6.12 and WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency 5.3.6 on WordPress 6.6.1. I have 500 WooCommerce products in Italian and I want to create their respective pages in English as quickly as possible. I would like the new English product pages to already have the same content as the Italian products, including texts and images, as if they were duplicates, but then I would like to manually edit each English product, being able to modify the texts, images, and price separately from the original Italian product. However, I would like the respective English and Italian products to maintain a link, indicating that one is the translation of the other, so that it is possible to switch the language on the frontend, but they should be editable separately.
Sintomi:
I tried duplicating the products from Translation Management, but the duplicated English products do not allow editing of images and prices. Or rather, the images can be modified, but when the page is saved, the changes are not saved, and the original image reappears. The price cannot be modified at all.
Domande:
How can I create English product pages that are duplicates of the Italian products but allow independent edits?
Why are the changes to images not being saved when I edit the duplicated English products?
Why can't I modify the price of the duplicated English products?
Welcome to the WPML support forum. I will do my best to help you to resolve the issue.
We are officially not recommending the manual translation of WooCommerce Product posts, because it has a lot of custom fields, especially when having variable products. It may result in a wrong sync of price, qty, etc..
Please take a site backup and deactivate the WooCommerce Multilingual plugin. Then check you can modify the products in the secondary language.
Hi Bigul, thanks for your reply. So I duplicate the products, deactivate the plugin, edit the duplicated products, and then reactivate it? Then, every time I want to modify either the duplicated product or the original one separately, I need to deactivate the plugin again?
Isn't there a way to duplicate the products and then unlink them from the main product, while keeping the fact that one is the translation of the other?
Thank you for the updates. Yes, we can't update the products in a secondary language manually (from the WordPress Editor screen) when the WooCommerce Multilingual plugin is active.
But you can translate it using WPML Advanced or Classic Editor (the officially recommended solution). Please refer to the following articles for more details.
