Translating menu description

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Supporter timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)

Tagged: Feature request

This topic contains 5 replies, has 1 voice.

Last updated by Christopher Amirian 1 month, 1 week ago.

Assisted by: Christopher Amirian.

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March 3, 2025 at 11:57 am #16768909
owocni.pl—mariuszS	Background of the issue: I am developing a site and using WPML to translate content. I have a menu where each item has a description, but these descriptions do not translate via WPML. Symptoms: The menu descriptions are not translating with WPML. Questions: Is there a way to translate menu descriptions myself without creating a separate menu for each language?
March 3, 2025 at 3:46 pm #16769882
Andrey Supporter Languages: English (English ) Russian (Русский ) Timezone: Europe/Kyiv (GMT+03:00)	While one of my teammates handles your ticket, I will provide the initial debugging steps. Could you please share examples of your menu and what you need to translate? Please review how to translate WordPress menus with WPML: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-menus/
March 4, 2025 at 7:52 am #16771718
owocni.pl—mariuszS	I fully understand the process of creating a menu instance for another language and I wanted to avoid that. When I have a menu in one language, when WPML translates the entire page, the Menu is translated and only the descriptions are not translated. The attachment shows where the description is entered, which, unlike the title, is not automatically translated and I do not see any option to translate it (except of course the method from the guide you sent, where a separate menu instance is created) (Opis means Description)
March 4, 2025 at 11:09 am #16773284
Christopher Amirian Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi, Welcome to WPML support. I checked and unfortunately, there is no option to translate the menu description automatically or via the Advanced Translation editor. The only way is the manual way my colleague mentioned in the previous reply. If you are interested I can add this as a feature request in our internal issue tracker. By the way I tested this on a clean installation: hidden link Thanks.
March 4, 2025 at 11:39 am #16773454
owocni.pl—mariuszS	Yeah, that would be nice feature in the future.
March 5, 2025 at 3:23 pm #16779656
Christopher Amirian Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi, I wanted to inform you that this issue has been added as a feature request. The feature requests are reviewed by our development team and depending on the feasibility for implementation and the number of requests it will be either rejected or added int he queue for implementation. Thanks.