For some reason, I cannot easily translate Woocommerce products with WPML Advanced translation Editor anymore.
Whenever I open a product in Woocommerce, and I click on the icon next to the language I would like to translate to, with "WPML Translation Editor selected"(see picture), it no longer takes me to the WPML Advanced translation Editor screen. Instead, it's taking me to WordPress Editor.
I have found out that the only way to translate with WPML Advanced translation Editor, is by following the steps below:
- Open product
- I click on the icon next to the language I would like to translate
- Product opens in WordPress Editor (even though WPML translation Editor is selected)
- I have to click the button override product with the original language
- I have to switch back to WordPress Editor in the original language
- I click on the icon next to the language I would like to translate (same as step 2)
- Now it's opening in WPML Advanced translation Editor
I never had to do this many steps before. It would always immediately open in WPML Advanced translation Editor when I clicked on the icon next to the language I want to translate to.
This work around is raking such a long time to translate a single product. Is there anyway this can be changed back to how it was?
Please create a full backup of the database and website then go to WPML > Support > Troubleshooting page, and click the following:
- Clear the Cache in WPML
- Remove ghost entries from the translation tables
- Fix element_type collation
- Fix WPML table collation
- Synchronize local job ids with ATE jobs
- Synchronize translators and translation managers with ATE
- Set language information
- Fix post type assignment for translations
I have done as instructred but still facing the issue.
I did some tests and I have noticed that I do not have this issue when I create a new product. However, when I copy a product and want to translate, I do have this issue.
I have always copied products to save time and have not experienced this issue in the past, so I am not sure what exactly has changed.
I see the "Yoast Duplicate Post" plugin installed so I used the same plugin to test this on a clean installation.
I see the same and I think this is expected because the translation of the product copy is created as a draft.
To fix this you can edit the product copy, switch to the second language from the top admin bar and publish the translation. Then you should be able to update the translation with the WPML Advanced editor.
It's so strange that suddenly it's not possible to translate a copy directly anymore. I have always duplicated products and was always able to enter WPML Advanced Translation Editor straigh away without switching to the second language. It has stopped working since end December/start January I think as I have copied products and translated before Christmas the old way.
Unfortunately, that didn’t solve the issue. I also deactivated it completely, but that plugin doesn’t seem to be the issue. For now I’ll just make new products instead of copying. This does not give me any issues.
