Thank you for contacting WPML support. While you are waiting for one of my colleagues to take this ticket and work on it, let me provide you with first debugging steps or if I can perhaps help with the issue quickly. WPML allows you to connect pages in different languages. Do your pages have different languages assigned? You can check this by editing the page and look in the Languages box, it will show you which language the page is set to and if it is a translation of another page. If there are no pages in the secondary language(s), you can edit the language using the drop down in the Languages box.
If a page has existing translations, you won't see the option to connect with translations. Those would need to be disconnected first.
To disconnect a page, edit the page in the original language and in the Languages box, disable the WPML translation editor by clicking WordPress editor. Then, edit the translation using the native WordPress editor. In the languages box, use the drop down to set "This is a translation of" to none. Then, the translation will be disconnected and you can connect a different page if needed.
Hi Lauren, thx for your reply. Yes unfortunatelly the page has no translations, and still does not show the options
I followed through with some guides, cleared WPML cache, and some other posts I found. Nothing is helping
To troubleshoot this further, can you please share temporary admin login details, along with examples of some pages that should be connected as translations?
I'll be in a better position to suggest the next steps, accordingly.
Note: Your next reply will be private and making a complete backup copy is recommended before sharing the access details.
A few of them like the ones you shared in the last reply, are the ones that are not in the primary language (English) but are in German.
If you already have the English version of these posts, you can open their edit screen in the English version (as Lauren suggested earlier) and join them with these German posts.
In case, the English version of these posts is not available, you'll first create the English version of these posts, and then you'll be able to link these secondary language posts to them.
I do have some additional questions:
So I always need to go through the default language?
Ok if there are version pages already created, i can just add on WPML translation (example I want to use WPML for Italian?
How do i disconnect a draft translation in progress? So I have somwhere accidentally started a translation, but now can not remove it, or disconnect it from a page?
Can you share an article how links work with translation, so I want the link to update to the corresponding language, and how do iframe elements work with translation for example?
If I update the article, add links to it, I need to rerun the translations?
New threads created by Waqar Ali and linked to this one are listed below:
> I do have some additional questions:
> So I always need to go through the default language?
- You don't necessarily have to create the page/post in the primary language first. But, the ideal workflow is that you start with the page/post in the primary language and then add the translations in the other languages.
If some pages/posts already exist in the secondary language(s), you can add the primary language version for it (if it doesn't exist) and then link them up, as discussed in this thread.
> Ok if there are version pages already created, i can just add on WPML translation (example I want to use WPML for Italian?
- Yes, you can include a new language's translation to the existing pages/post, by using the language icons available on the single page/post edit screen or on the page/post lists in the admin area.
