Background of the issue:
I'm translating a post of my choosing. The original is scheduled to publish in the future (June 1). I'm using the advanced translation editor and have 'Copy publishing date to translations' selected in the settings. Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link
Symptoms:
After reviewing the translation and accepting the translation, the only option is to publish the translation immediately, but I don't want the translation to publish until June 1.
Questions:
Is this a bug or am I unable to schedule these translations for the future?
Languages: English (English )German (Deutsch )French (Français )
Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)
Hi,
Even if you publish a translation of the scheduled post, it will not be published immediately—it will be scheduled, just like the original. Please see my screenshots.
Hi, thanks for your reply, but this isn't my experience (please see the attached screenshots).
Screenshot 1: This English blog post (the original) is scheduled to publish on May 10 at 7AM PST
Screenshot 2: I've asked WPML to automatically translate it into Dutch. When I click into the translation for review, the only options are to go back, to edit the translation (which opens the advanced translation editor) or to publish the post. After editing the translation, I have to hit "Publish", so I do.
Screenshot 3: Instead of scheduling the Dutch version of the blog post for May 10, like the original, it publishes the translation right away on May 7.
Languages: English (English )German (Deutsch )French (Français )
Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+02:00)
Indeed if you schedule a post and then send it through Translation Management with the status "Wait for Review" (assigned to yourself), and then publish it from the review screen, the post will go live immediately — it will not follow the original schedule.
However, if you translate the post directly in ATE (Advanced Translation Editor), the scheduled date and time from the original post will be preserved.
It appears that setting the status to "Wait for Review" overrides the original scheduling.
This issue has been escalated to our Tier 2 team for further investigation. It may require some debugging, so I appreciate your patience — I’ll get back to you as soon as I have any updates or additional questions.
Hi Bruno, Thanks for your assistance. It's been a month since our last communication, so I wanted to follow up to see if there had been any development on this issue. Thank you!
Thank you for your reply! I'm not familiar with an errata. Does this mean there will never be a solution for the "1. Wait for review" issue as the errata includes a workaround? Or is this something the WPML developers are working on?
