Two questions about WPML, which are probably not a problem, but just to be sure.
– Is it possible to setup a menu that contains different pages per language.
– Not every page will have a translation, and does not has to exist in every language. Is this possible?
2. If you want, you can display the same content for all languages. For this to happen, you can use WPML’s content duplication feature. Then, when you want to translate, just override the duplicated content with real translation.
My team just bought a CMS Licence with the email I provided in this form, we paid with Paypal (as guest) and we did not receive a download link or a licence number. Just the email with basic tutorials (Language URL Options). We don’t have any password to login and the retrieve password seems not to work.
I resent your new-account email from my personal email. I also see a password-reset initiated for your account (from your IP). Please let me know if you need any more help.
I appear to have the same problem, having used Google Checkout this morning. Upon entering my e-mail address in the password recovery tool I received an e-mail with a link to reset the password, but that resulted in an error message.
I’m sorry, but I don’t think that we’ve tested that theme with WPML. If the theme author is interested, we will be happy to review functionality together.
I want to set up a multilingual website using the wordpress woodstock theme, which I have already installed on my website. I am one step away from buying your product, but I just wanted to check if it would allow me to run translated versions of the homepage. I am specifically interested in translation of the text boxes under the slider. I realise you probably haven’t tested this theme before, but I’m assuming you have tested the program on similar styles of themes in the past.
I’m not familiar with that theme. We’ll be very happy to work with the theme author and check compatibility. Do you want to see if they’re interested in that too?
We recently purchased your product to use with our wordpress site through a credit card. Once purchased we tried putting it to use but were asked for our account name and password. We didn’t have the option to create one and are now wondering what we need to do to set one up so that we can use the product.
You should have received an email from us with your login details. If you can’t see it, check your SPAM box as it might be hiding there. If you still need help, please use our contact form, include your full name and ask for it to be resent. We’ll locate your order and send that again. http://wpml.org/home/contact-us/
When creating a new page in another language, based on a different page do image gallerys (attachments) get copied into the new page?
For example, I create an english page with a few images uploaded via media manager onto that page. The images display WITHOUT using the gallery shortcode, i.e. they are called using php in a template file. Is there a way of making those images show up in the new translation without reuploading them?
You can either display different images per language, or tell WPML to synchronize and display the same ones. You don’t need to upload again. This duplication is done on the DB level, by duplicating the ‘attachment’ entries in the database. The image files themselves are only uploaded once for all languages.
I have purchased WPML in the past for a client site (over a year ago)… and, firstly, I love it!
For the first site, I’ve now expired, and not getting any updates.
I’m looking at purchasing it again for a second multilingual site and I’m wondering if this new purchase for the new site will let me add updates to the first site?
Is it possible to use the plugin to show conditional content based on the country of the visit?
I have a site that will address several countries that share language (spanish) but I’d like to show prices on their currency, as well as other small changes.
Is it possible to use conditional tags inside the page to show a specific content or another, depending on the country of the people visiting our site?
Certainly. You can have translated content for different languages or completely different content. If you want to support different Spanish variants, you can setup several ‘Spanish’ types via WPML->Edit languages.
You can use WPML’s language constants to tell the current language and display different content in your site’s template.
I am currently building WP website with WPML ready template. I first want to create category + basic content for organisation approval in my native language. Then I will use WPML for english translation.
I am currently using http://www.MyDNS.com for the french content. Whenn I will start WPML, will it be possible to MOVE this http://www.MyDNS.com to fr.MyDNS.com with no problem ? My english content will be in the www or “en” subdomain. I just want to know if I will have problem to change subdomain for french content ( I do not care about SEO problem ).
Just found this product and have a couple questions:
We are building a language learning site where, after the user logs in, they will select a native and learning language (one will always be english). This selection will be stored in the metadata for that user. We plan to buy the CMS version of this product so our whole site and theme can switch from language to language.
1. Can the switch be triggered by when the user chooses their native language or would they still have to choose that in a drop down menu somewhere?
2. When a blog post is displayed is it possible to have the two different language versions of it displayed side by side instead of just the localized language?
1. WPML has the logic to detect the client’s language preference and redirect to that language. It works using the browser’s language setting. I suppose that we can help you hack that code and check the default client language based on a cookie. It’s implemented part in Javascript and part in PHP.
2. I don’t know how to implement this side-by-side display. If you’re looking for side-by-side translation, you should know that WPML includes that today. WPML’s Translation Editor shows original and translations side-by-side. This is in the WordPress admin. We don’t have anything similar to that for front-pages.
I’m considering buying this option for our corporate web site and, although money is not an issue (seeing as it’s the company paying), I’d hate to spend the money to only realise it’s not what we need. Refund period is also too short for my needs, so I’d like to ask if there’s any way I could demo the plugin before buying it?
Sorry, but we don’t have a demo version for WPML. What concerns you? Do you want to tell what you’re going to do with WPML? I’ll be happy to check if that’s possible.
I have launched sunoya.com using WP 3.4.2, headway themes, jigoshop and qtranslate and I realize I dont get proper translation thru-out the entire buying process. I’m now considering using WPML for this reason.
Any reason why WPML will not work?
There’s a glue plugin that we’ve created for JigoShop, which takes care of all the little strings in the shop. People are using it and it’s working fine. Everything with Headway is also working smoothly. We also have a content importer from qTranslate. It will do most of the migration work for you, but you might need to spend a bit of time manually transferring some of the translations.
If I install your plugin.. will it automatically create the translated versions of the site.. and then I can have editors go back in and correct any issues with the translation? I want to do this as quick as possible. Looks like some other plugins (transposh) will do this.. just wanted to see if yours would since it is compatible with U-Design.
WPML doesn’t do any automatic translation. I know that Transposh and some others do that, but WPML doesn’t. Google is very clear about the use of their machine translation in websites. They consider this as SPAM and will most likely blacklist sites that rely on machine translation in their database.
Of course, if you start with machine translation and then heavily edit it, you should be fine. However, if you just do minor polishes, Google will most likely punish you for this. It’s very easy for Google to identify their own machine translation in your content.
Is it available already? I want to buy your your plugin for client websites but do the translation myself, so not comfortable with promoting a third party translation service.
Yes. You can click on the ‘Hide’ button and it will remove that option completely from the GUI. There’s still unhide, but unless you click on it, there’s no mention to any translation service. I hope that’s what you’re looking for.
I am interested in simply setting up a U.S. English and U.K. English version of my website. The only difference between the two sites would be that some of the pages would show different number figures. I am not needing multilingual support, just an alternate version of my site that can reside at a different sub domain (i.e. us.domain.com and uk.domain.com). Is this plugin more than what I need?
You can do that with WPML. WPML will let you organize the content in different subdomains for each of the languages. However, I’m not sure that it’s the best thing for you. If all you’re talking about are some small country changes, here and there, you might be better of with custom PHP coding and conditional display.
Also, I’m pretty sure that Google will not appreciate the exact same content appearing on two domains with slight variations. You are probably aware of this already.
Adquirí un plantilla (template) para un sitio web (blog) que estoy implementando, me interesa adquirir el plugin de traducción, sin embargo quiero saber si la opción “Multiligual Blog” es funcional para mi, ya que solo lo necesito para un sitio web, no para varios sitios.
This really depends on what you’re going to need to translate. The main difference for you between the full CMS version and our Blog version would be the String Translation module. Without it, you will not be able to translate widget titles and other texts that don’t belong to a specific post.
I’m running the Photocrati template in my website. Is your Plugin compatible with the theme? The theme is pretty basic, i don’t think there’s any issue, but i wanted to check first.
Photocrati is not there. If the Photocrati folks have some available time, we would be most happy to review their themes and WPML together. Would you like to contact them and see if they are interested? We contacted in the past and did not receive a reply.
I’m not seeing your theme there. We are happy to work towards compatibility with any theme author. Would you like to contact the theme author and see if they can review cross compatibility with us?
This plugin doesn’t actually translate anything, does it? You have to translate it yourself or pay to have it translated, correct? This is just for language management?
Right. WPML doesn’t do the translation for you. It’s a tool that lets you maintain several languages in one WordPress site. You can translate yourself or use a translation service.
I want to run an ecommerce site using WordPress and I’m not sure about what WPML version is right for me: multilingual CMS or multilingual blog.
Right now I’m reading about several e-commerce plugins for WordPress. Probably I’ll choose WooCommerce, but I’m testing also WP-Ecommerce and The Cart Press plugins.
Which WMPL version should I buy to build a multilingual ecommerce site with wordpress?
WPML and WooCommerce run very well together. Our developers and WooCommerce developers work together to ensure this compatibility. The current WooCommerce version requires a tiny patch to run correctly with WPML. As of WooCommerce 2.0, due to come out during January, no patch will be necessary.
We are also migrating our own sites to use WooCommerce. Of course, our own sites use WPML.
Hello, having read through all the posts above many of my questions are answered. Here is one though, related to my recently bought Oxygen-theme from http://alienwp.com/themes/oxygen/. I can’t find alienwp in your list, but in a question on their forum they referred to you. Are you able to say whether or not I would experience problems with the WPML plugin and my chosen (or any of the other alienwp) theme?
Sorry, but we haven’t tested WPML with their theme. If they are happy to cooperate with us, we’ll be able to support you with whatever is needed. We have a developer who’s working full time on theme compatibility. If the theme developers can handle little things that come up, we’ll be able to get everything working for you.
I don’t think that we’ve tested WPML with that theme. We would be happy to test compatibility with the theme author. Would you like to check if Graffias authors want to test things together with us?
Does WPML translate WordPress menus?
Yes, certainly. WPML lets you manage different menus in different languages:
http://wpml.org/tutorials/translating-wordpress-menus/
SOLD!
Hi,
Two questions about WPML, which are probably not a problem, but just to be sure.
– Is it possible to setup a menu that contains different pages per language.
– Not every page will have a translation, and does not has to exist in every language. Is this possible?
1. You can have different menus for different languages. Here is how to use it:
http://wpml.org/tutorials/translating-wordpress-menus/
2. If you want, you can display the same content for all languages. For this to happen, you can use WPML’s content duplication feature. Then, when you want to translate, just override the duplicated content with real translation.
Does this help?
Hello
My team just bought a CMS Licence with the email I provided in this form, we paid with Paypal (as guest) and we did not receive a download link or a licence number. Just the email with basic tutorials (Language URL Options). We don’t have any password to login and the retrieve password seems not to work.
Need a little help 🙂
I resent your new-account email from my personal email. I also see a password-reset initiated for your account (from your IP). Please let me know if you need any more help.
Hi Amir,
I appear to have the same problem, having used Google Checkout this morning. Upon entering my e-mail address in the password recovery tool I received an e-mail with a link to reset the password, but that resulted in an error message.
Hope you can help me.
Thanks,
Amir.
I reset your password manually and resent it to your email.
Hi there,
I want to buy this template:
http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/40348.html
Is it possible to use it with your plugin??
BR
Niels
I’m sorry, but I don’t think that we’ve tested that theme with WPML. If the theme author is interested, we will be happy to review functionality together.
Hi,
I want to set up a multilingual website using the wordpress woodstock theme, which I have already installed on my website. I am one step away from buying your product, but I just wanted to check if it would allow me to run translated versions of the homepage. I am specifically interested in translation of the text boxes under the slider. I realise you probably haven’t tested this theme before, but I’m assuming you have tested the program on similar styles of themes in the past.
Thx in advance,
Nico
I’m not familiar with that theme. We’ll be very happy to work with the theme author and check compatibility. Do you want to see if they’re interested in that too?
Hi,
We recently purchased your product to use with our wordpress site through a credit card. Once purchased we tried putting it to use but were asked for our account name and password. We didn’t have the option to create one and are now wondering what we need to do to set one up so that we can use the product.
Thanks!
You should have received an email from us with your login details. If you can’t see it, check your SPAM box as it might be hiding there. If you still need help, please use our contact form, include your full name and ask for it to be resent. We’ll locate your order and send that again.
http://wpml.org/home/contact-us/
Hi,
When creating a new page in another language, based on a different page do image gallerys (attachments) get copied into the new page?
For example, I create an english page with a few images uploaded via media manager onto that page. The images display WITHOUT using the gallery shortcode, i.e. they are called using php in a template file. Is there a way of making those images show up in the new translation without reuploading them?
Thanks,
You can either display different images per language, or tell WPML to synchronize and display the same ones. You don’t need to upload again. This duplication is done on the DB level, by duplicating the ‘attachment’ entries in the database. The image files themselves are only uploaded once for all languages.
Hi
Is it possible to include the language switcher in the main menu?
Thanks
Gonzalo
Yes. WPML can include the language switcher as the last item in a standard WordPress menu.
I have purchased WPML in the past for a client site (over a year ago)… and, firstly, I love it!
For the first site, I’ve now expired, and not getting any updates.
I’m looking at purchasing it again for a second multilingual site and I’m wondering if this new purchase for the new site will let me add updates to the first site?
Thanks,
Certainly. You can use WPML on as many sites as you need and you’ll be able to install on new sites or upgrade existing ones.
Is it possible to use the plugin to show conditional content based on the country of the visit?
I have a site that will address several countries that share language (spanish) but I’d like to show prices on their currency, as well as other small changes.
Is it possible to use conditional tags inside the page to show a specific content or another, depending on the country of the people visiting our site?
Certainly. You can have translated content for different languages or completely different content. If you want to support different Spanish variants, you can setup several ‘Spanish’ types via WPML->Edit languages.
You can use WPML’s language constants to tell the current language and display different content in your site’s template.
Hello. I am thinking of buying the $29 version of your product.
I necessary can I upgrade to the $79 by paying just the difference – $59?
Please let ne know, thanks
Yes, you can later upgrade from the Blog version to the full CMS version and pay only the difference. It’s $50.
Dear WPML Team,
I am currently building WP website with WPML ready template. I first want to create category + basic content for organisation approval in my native language. Then I will use WPML for english translation.
I am currently using http://www.MyDNS.com for the french content. Whenn I will start WPML, will it be possible to MOVE this http://www.MyDNS.com to fr.MyDNS.com with no problem ? My english content will be in the www or “en” subdomain. I just want to know if I will have problem to change subdomain for french content ( I do not care about SEO problem ).
Generally speaking, there’s no problem changing the domain of a site. You might need to update links between pages, if you have any.
If you need information about using languages in domains, have a look at this FAQ:
http://wpml.org/faq/server-setting-for-languages-in-different-domains/
Just found this product and have a couple questions:
We are building a language learning site where, after the user logs in, they will select a native and learning language (one will always be english). This selection will be stored in the metadata for that user. We plan to buy the CMS version of this product so our whole site and theme can switch from language to language.
1. Can the switch be triggered by when the user chooses their native language or would they still have to choose that in a drop down menu somewhere?
2. When a blog post is displayed is it possible to have the two different language versions of it displayed side by side instead of just the localized language?
Thanks
Rob
1. WPML has the logic to detect the client’s language preference and redirect to that language. It works using the browser’s language setting. I suppose that we can help you hack that code and check the default client language based on a cookie. It’s implemented part in Javascript and part in PHP.
2. I don’t know how to implement this side-by-side display. If you’re looking for side-by-side translation, you should know that WPML includes that today. WPML’s Translation Editor shows original and translations side-by-side. This is in the WordPress admin. We don’t have anything similar to that for front-pages.
Hello!
I’m considering buying this option for our corporate web site and, although money is not an issue (seeing as it’s the company paying), I’d hate to spend the money to only realise it’s not what we need. Refund period is also too short for my needs, so I’d like to ask if there’s any way I could demo the plugin before buying it?
Thanks!
Sorry, but we don’t have a demo version for WPML. What concerns you? Do you want to tell what you’re going to do with WPML? I’ll be happy to check if that’s possible.
Well, can I email you at some address (“purchases”?), since some stuff is of a bit sensitive nature? Thanks for your reply!
I have launched sunoya.com using WP 3.4.2, headway themes, jigoshop and qtranslate and I realize I dont get proper translation thru-out the entire buying process. I’m now considering using WPML for this reason.
Any reason why WPML will not work?
Goran
There’s a glue plugin that we’ve created for JigoShop, which takes care of all the little strings in the shop. People are using it and it’s working fine. Everything with Headway is also working smoothly. We also have a content importer from qTranslate. It will do most of the migration work for you, but you might need to spend a bit of time manually transferring some of the translations.
If I install your plugin.. will it automatically create the translated versions of the site.. and then I can have editors go back in and correct any issues with the translation? I want to do this as quick as possible. Looks like some other plugins (transposh) will do this.. just wanted to see if yours would since it is compatible with U-Design.
Thanks!
AJ
WPML doesn’t do any automatic translation. I know that Transposh and some others do that, but WPML doesn’t. Google is very clear about the use of their machine translation in websites. They consider this as SPAM and will most likely blacklist sites that rely on machine translation in their database.
Of course, if you start with machine translation and then heavily edit it, you should be fine. However, if you just do minor polishes, Google will most likely punish you for this. It’s very easy for Google to identify their own machine translation in your content.
Hi,
In your thread here (http://wpml.org/forums/topic/i-want-to-remove-not-hide-icanlocalize/) you say the feature to remove Icanlocalize service would be available soon.
Is it available already? I want to buy your your plugin for client websites but do the translation myself, so not comfortable with promoting a third party translation service.
Thank you!
Yes. You can click on the ‘Hide’ button and it will remove that option completely from the GUI. There’s still unhide, but unless you click on it, there’s no mention to any translation service. I hope that’s what you’re looking for.
Hello,
I am interested in simply setting up a U.S. English and U.K. English version of my website. The only difference between the two sites would be that some of the pages would show different number figures. I am not needing multilingual support, just an alternate version of my site that can reside at a different sub domain (i.e. us.domain.com and uk.domain.com). Is this plugin more than what I need?
Thanks!
Ryan
You can do that with WPML. WPML will let you organize the content in different subdomains for each of the languages. However, I’m not sure that it’s the best thing for you. If all you’re talking about are some small country changes, here and there, you might be better of with custom PHP coding and conditional display.
Also, I’m pretty sure that Google will not appreciate the exact same content appearing on two domains with slight variations. You are probably aware of this already.
Saludos.
Adquirí un plantilla (template) para un sitio web (blog) que estoy implementando, me interesa adquirir el plugin de traducción, sin embargo quiero saber si la opción “Multiligual Blog” es funcional para mi, ya que solo lo necesito para un sitio web, no para varios sitios.
Muchas gracias
This really depends on what you’re going to need to translate. The main difference for you between the full CMS version and our Blog version would be the String Translation module. Without it, you will not be able to translate widget titles and other texts that don’t belong to a specific post.
Hi,
I’m running the Photocrati template in my website. Is your Plugin compatible with the theme? The theme is pretty basic, i don’t think there’s any issue, but i wanted to check first.
Thanks!
We list themes that we’ve tested ourselves with WPML here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/
Photocrati is not there. If the Photocrati folks have some available time, we would be most happy to review their themes and WPML together. Would you like to contact them and see if they are interested? We contacted in the past and did not receive a reply.
will do, thanks
I guess i will have to make a leap of faith, they pretty much declined. Ill process the purchase and test in my website.
Got it. For WooCommerce, you certainly would need the full Multilingual CMS package.
If you find anything wrong, I would appreciate connecting us with Photocrati authors. Let’s see how it goes.
Hello,
Before buying your WPML solution, I just want to be sure if it works with my template. You can see it on my URL or here http://www.templatemonster.com/wordpress-themes/35165.html
Thanks for answering.
Best regards,
Ivan
We list themes that we’ve tested with WPML here:
http://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/
I’m not seeing your theme there. We are happy to work towards compatibility with any theme author. Would you like to contact the theme author and see if they can review cross compatibility with us?
This plugin doesn’t actually translate anything, does it? You have to translate it yourself or pay to have it translated, correct? This is just for language management?
Right. WPML doesn’t do the translation for you. It’s a tool that lets you maintain several languages in one WordPress site. You can translate yourself or use a translation service.
Hi,
I want to run an ecommerce site using WordPress and I’m not sure about what WPML version is right for me: multilingual CMS or multilingual blog.
Right now I’m reading about several e-commerce plugins for WordPress. Probably I’ll choose WooCommerce, but I’m testing also WP-Ecommerce and The Cart Press plugins.
Which WMPL version should I buy to build a multilingual ecommerce site with wordpress?
Kind regards,
WPML and WooCommerce run very well together. Our developers and WooCommerce developers work together to ensure this compatibility. The current WooCommerce version requires a tiny patch to run correctly with WPML. As of WooCommerce 2.0, due to come out during January, no patch will be necessary.
We are also migrating our own sites to use WooCommerce. Of course, our own sites use WPML.
Hi,
Thanks for your reply, but I asked for which WPML version was suitable for translating WooCommerce: Multilingual CMS or Multilingual BLog 🙂
Kind regards,
Hello, having read through all the posts above many of my questions are answered. Here is one though, related to my recently bought Oxygen-theme from http://alienwp.com/themes/oxygen/. I can’t find alienwp in your list, but in a question on their forum they referred to you. Are you able to say whether or not I would experience problems with the WPML plugin and my chosen (or any of the other alienwp) theme?
Regards,
Bent,
Stavanger, Norway
Sorry, but we haven’t tested WPML with their theme. If they are happy to cooperate with us, we’ll be able to support you with whatever is needed. We have a developer who’s working full time on theme compatibility. If the theme developers can handle little things that come up, we’ll be able to get everything working for you.
Hi guys. I have and intothedarkroom theme installed called Graffias. Here is the addy for the theme: (http://intothedarkroom.com/demos/en/blogs/graffias/)
My site is not live yet, but was wondering if your plugin is compatible.
Thanks in advance.
I don’t think that we’ve tested WPML with that theme. We would be happy to test compatibility with the theme author. Would you like to check if Graffias authors want to test things together with us?