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  1. Hello,

    I find I cannot register into the WPML forum, only can log in; should I purchase WPML first and then I can get the account automatically?

    Best regards,
    Jason

    • Hello,

      I have purchased the WPML service yesterday but till now I did not get the reply email for user account and password. Is it OK for my purchase?

      Best regards,
      LU Qiao

      • Dear Agnes Bury,

        Thank you for your response and currently, I have my account and password by resetting the password; but I definitely did not receive the email automatically for the initial account and password(even in the spam), please verify it. My registration mail is luqiao2015@gmail.com

        Best regards
        LU Qiao

        • Hello,
          Agnes is away already. I am from the Admin team. I can confirm the welcome mail was sent to you yesterday from our system, I am not sure what happened in the middle. In any case it is good to know you have been able to log in now.
          Let me know if you need any further help.

          Kind regards,

        • Hi mercedes,

          Yesterday I really got the email for my purchase order, but no other email info for account and password.
          From the website, I got the notice that I will be informed by a different email to tell me the account and password, but I waited for one day and till now did not get this email. I also checked the spam and found nothing.

          Hope that there is no issue in your system, just a reminder in case.

          Best regards,
          LU Qiao

          • Hello,
            I’ve checked our records and your order was completed correctly and your WPML subscription was created for you. If you didn’t get the email with credentials, please try to use this link to reset your password:
            https://wpml.org/account/lost-my-password/

            If that doesn’t help, please let me know and we will reset your credentials and send the email once again.

            In the meantime, I will check with our admins if we sent you that first email or it something didn’t work. Regards, Agnes.

  2. Hello I have pre sale question about VAT and lifetime pack. Could someone please contact me via email? Or your facebook group.

    Thanks!

  3. Hi,
    My name is Alon, and I am creating a training website for users of our System. We need to translate the website into Spanish, and I have a few questions:

    1) The training content is set-up as pages. When a user joins the whole website needs to flow in Spanish or English (depending on the user). The primary language of the website is English. I don’t want them to need to switch from English to Spanish on every page. Is that possible to set-up using WPML (essentially I’m imagining that once the language is set-up, the whole website will flow in that language, and I will have a separate landing page for Spanish users which would set the rest of their experience in Spanish.

    2) I can’t enable external users to access our admin backend. How would a translation service be able to translate our content?

    Thanks!

    • Hi Alon,
      1. No problem, when you add languages using WPML each of them will be kept in a separte folder (a virtual one) but from the user point of view it means that once they enter a page in Spanish, they will continue clicking in the Spanish part.

      2. No problem. If you mean one of the translation services integrated with WPML, they don’t need to have access to your WP at all. If you mean your own translator, you can use the XLIFF file
      https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-desktop-cat-tools/

      I hope it helps.

  4. Hi, is there an option for sharing the same content for more than one page / language?
    using same page for all languages, i.e. photo gallery , portfolio…?

  5. Hi;

    I have bought Multilingual CMS.
    It’s been over a year. I want to buy again.
    How to benefit from your account renewal per year.
    79 USD is too high.
    If I do not get $ 39, I’ll have to use another plugin.

  6. Hi,

    What does it mean “Websites UNLIMITED”? With this option, can I buy one WPML license, and install on multiple domains on different servers?
    Another question, can I install on localhost?

    Best regards,
    Luis

  7. Hello,
    I work for one localization company in Switzerland and we have some clients that use WordPress for their websites, as you can understand we need a connector with WordPress and our system.

    We will need customized version of WPML that connects only with our system.
    My question:
    What are our options to get this?

    Thank you in advance.

  8. hello guys,
    as i was asking can i add my own brand new language to the plugin if its not available on the plugin by default? my client want to add 3 languages, English, Persian and Pashto this has the same characters and alphabet as persian and arabic language, i know pashto is not available by default on the plugin, so is it easy to add this and making it fully functional?

    the other question is, can i move the widget on anywhere i want on a wordpress theme? i will be using the templates from templatemonster, will you guys will help me to place the widget or it will be the template guys who will help me to do this job?

    with 79 is it the full and complete working package or not?

    i wanted to buy this earlier but it was delayed by my client.

    looking forward to your answers.

    thank you very much.

  9. If I get a lifetime license of this plugin, can you help me to set it up on my pages? I use megamenu plugin and tried to set up polylang but it did not work, my megamenu became all corrupted, so I had to uninstall it. Thanks

  10. Hi WPML,

    May i know if i using woocommerce theme then i can use blog version or i need to you cms version? If using blog version, will the product in my website will change language from english to other language?

    By the way, can i do like this everytime customer visit my website then it will pop up the notice to ask customer to select their language that they want?

    Thank You

    • Hi Alex,
      if you want to translate your WooCommerce products, the Blog package won’t suffice. You need at least the CMS one. Here’s the list of required plugins for WooCommerce-based sites. https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/#required-plugins

      You will find all of them in the CMS package.

      By the way, can i do like this everytime customer visit my website then it will pop up the notice to ask customer to select their language that they want?

      Technically, it’s doable. You don’t need it. Better to include the language switcher in your header/menu/sidebar and make it stand out. If you provide your visitors with valuable contents (translated by humans) please note that you will get a lot of organic traffic from search engines directly in their language.

            • Hi Alex, you ask if you can translate widgets using WPML? Yes, you can. And yes, you will need to CMS packages since it includes the String Translation module which is required to translate some of your widgets.

              • Hi Agnes,

                After install wpml plugin, for those woocommerce product name and description and all infomation page such us about us, term& conditions and etc. Those information will change directly without change one by one? Because some language plugin for example like opencart language, if you want to change your product name & description i need to change one by one. I no sure how the setting of this plugin work, if can i just only need by click one button then all site language will change at one time

  11. Hi,

    We work on a wordpress website that need to be in French and English, we use a theme (salient) and I want to be sure that I’ve understand your rate before we choose wpm.

    The blog option seems to be great for use – except the for the widget…
    If I choose the cms option, it’s cost 79$ but I need to pay 39$ each year after that ?

    Thank you for your answer

    • Hi Marie,

      “If I choose the cms option, it’s cost 79$ but I need to pay 39$ each year after that ?”
      Yes, or you might upgrade to the Lifetime for the difference in purchase price, so that would be $116.

      You can also consider starting from the Blog version and checking if you can handle translating your widgets with some 3-party plugins (it was possible in the past). If it turns out that the Blog version is not enough for you can upgrade to the CMS version and again for the difference in purchase price. The CMS version includes the same core WPML plugin as the Blog version, the difference is that in the CMS version you have more plugins (String translation, Media translation etc)

  12. Hi,

    We work on a wordpress website, with the Salient theme – the website will be in 2 languages (English and French) and I wan’t to be sure of the rate before we go on the wpm solution :

    – if we take the cms option, we pay 79$ and then, each year we have to pay 39$ ?
    – the blog option don’t cover the widget option, that’s means all the plug-in ? (like nectar slider…) ?

    Thank you for your answer

  13. Hello. I am trying to buy a license, but your online shop is charging 21% VAT. I live in the EU but my territory is VAT-exempt (Canary Islands). Legally, you cannot charge VAT on that transaction, but I found no way to order the licence without VAT. How can we sort that out, please? Thanks.

  14. Hello,

    I am interested in WPML lifetime license. I just want to make sure: if I purchase the $195 lifetime add-on, can I really use it in unlimited times? I am a web site designer and make multiple sites in every month for my clients. Is this one purchase enough to use for every single client I have and will have in the future?

    Thank you.

    • Hello Toni,
      yes, buying one WPML subscription will suffice. Feel free to use it for all your customers (both current and future ones)

  15. Hi. I would like to start using WPML. How can I get my site “machine” translated (pages, post etc). To start with I don’t wish to pay for professional a translations.

    How do I do, what plugin do I need? Looking forwar to your answer.

  16. Hello,

    I have to set up a multilingual site. German and English shall be on one same domain: http://www.example.de (German) and http://www.en.example.de (English). So far so good i think.

    But I have a third domain in polish. That domain shall be shown like http://www.example.pl and NOT like http://www.pl.example.pl.

    I read that with your extension I can choose the way the domain is displayed. But can I us both ways in one setup?

    Thanks in advance,

    Violet

  17. Hi. I would like to start using WPML. How can I get my site “machine” translated (pages, post etc). To start with I don’t wish to pay for professional a translations.

    How do I do, what plugin do I need? Looking forwar to your answer. Regards leif

    • Hello, I’m sorry but WPML doesn’t translate automatically at all. Machine translations won’t help your site from the Google point of view (and other search engines). If you need machine translation you would need to find other plugins.

      With WPML you can translate pages either by yourself (or ask your friends) or use one of the professional a translation services we integrate with.

  18. Hi,
    I already have a licence (lifetime), but need a second licence for a new website Im developing. Do I get a discount? 😉

    Greetings Mark Botter

    • Hi Mark,
      you don’t need to buy a separate WPML license for each and every site you build. The one you have can be used for all of the websites you build, for all of your customers. If you already bought one (sorry for my late reply, I live in the European time zone), please use this form and we will refund your order:

  19. Hi Guys, I hope you would be able to help me with this question,
    I want to use your multilingual plugin (my very first webshop) but have an outdated site which uses:
    WP 4.6.6, Visual Composer 4.12.1 and Woocommerce 2.6.7.
    Since everything is working so far I rather do not update those items but are willing to buy your plugin if it works fine with Visual Composer and is not complicate to install/use (sorry, I’m actually a designer).

    My question is which (older) version you advice me to use in this case that granted works and where can I download those? Is this older version complicated to install?

    Thanks, Andrea

    • Hi Andrea,
      to answer your question: yes, you can download older versions of WPML (you will find all of them in your WPML account) but I would strongly encourage you not to do so. Due to security reason you should always keep your WordPress site up to date in terms of the most recent plugin and theme versions and the WP core itself.

      Another reason to use the most recent version is that if you get stuck with anything, you find issues/problems and you open a ticket in our support forum (or in the support forum of the third party plugins you use (Visual Composer)), the supporters will ask you to upgrade to the most recent version since it also includes all bug fixes.

  20. Hi, I have made a purchase the day before, but I didn’t received any email or confirmation yet. I have paid through Paypal and the money is deducted.

    Thank you.

    • Hello Andy,
      we sent the email with credentials immediately. Did you check your spam folder? If the email is not there, please use this form to reset your password. I don’t know which email address you used but I have just checked the one you submitted this comment with and I didn’t find any user with that email. If your intention was to use this one it means, you made a typo in it. If that’s the case, please use this form and send us your order number and we will update your email in our database and resend credentials.

      • Hi Agnes, I have used this email address as both the payment as well as login account. I have submitted the request with order number using the later form. Hope to hear from you soon. Thank you.

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