[Resolved] How can I make a texts with several paragraphs been several blocks in translatio

Hi there

I'm trying to understand the issue.

You are using WP Bakery page builder, adding modules, and the issue is that when you translate the page, the whole content of a module must be translated in one go, rather than translating smaller parts of the module individually, yes?

That happens with the Classic editor (screenshot classic.png).

If you use the Advanced Translation Editor then it automatically breaks up the text into smaller units that can be translated separately (screenshot ate.png).

ATE is a more advanced editor, and this is one of the benefits.

When using the Classic translation editor the post content isn't broken up into chunks of text in the same way that it is using the Advanced Translation Editor (as in my earlier screenshot), the content is taken together as a whole.

Except, where using a page builder (WPML recognises the WPBakery shortcodes for rows and colums) the Classic translation editor will attempt to break up content, e.g. into chunks based on the rows, but it is s cruder process than is achieved with ATE.

The only way to break up the content into smaller chunks for translation (without modifying the content to introduce extra rows, or similiar) is to switch to using ATE for translations.

I'm not sure Elementor uses shortcodes. Divi does. You could try these to see if any of them work to break the text into chunks.

et_pb_section
et_pb_row
et_pb_text

Note that you will need to register the shortcodes and have them just return the unaltered content, otherwise the shortcodes won't be recognised and will be displayed as content themselves.

e.g.

add_shortcode( 'et_pb_section', function( $atts = [], $content = null ){

    return $content;
});

You use the WordPress function add_shortcode, as in my example above.

See https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/add_shortcode/

You can add the example code in my previous reply to your theme's functions.php file (or use a plugin such as Code Snippets).

My example registers the shortcode et_pb_section, but the shortcode doesn't do anything, it will just print whatever is within the opening and closing shortcode tags.

Test with that shortcode to see if it triggers breaking the post body into chunks. If that doesn't work you could try the row or text shortcodes.

Those delineate comments, and you have wrapped the whole of the code in comments, so it won't do anything.

Try this:

/**
 ** Test Divi shortcodes to break the text into chunks in wpml tranlsation.
 */

add_shortcode( 'et_pb_section', function( $atts = [], $content = null ){

return $content;
});

That will register the et_pb_section shortcode, which will simply output whatever is inside it without changes. But, it may trigger breaking the text into chunks in the classic WPML editor.