Duplicate products to other languages

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Last updated by zakW 12 hours, 33 minutes ago.

Assisted by: Lucas Vidal de Andrade.

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April 2, 2025 at 12:17 pm #16886939
zakW	Background of the issue: I have around 15000 products on my site hidden link that I need to duplicate to all the languages (5, including the default one). I am looking for a bulk way of doing this that doesn't require selecting them from the translations management page, as this only allows me to do 100 at a time and is not the fastest method. I am considering using a cron job or a function to speed up the process. Symptoms: The translations management page only allows duplicating 100 products at a time, which is not efficient for my needs. Questions: Is there a way to duplicate 15000 products to all languages in bulk without using the translations management page? Can I use a cron job or a function to speed up the product duplication process?
April 2, 2025 at 2:53 pm #16887679
Lucas Vidal de Andrade Supporter Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) German (Deutsch ) Portuguese (Brazil) (Português ) Timezone: America/Sao_Paulo (GMT-03:00)	Hey there, I confirmed with our devs. The hooks I shared are precisely to create duplicates of posts, including products. As I said, the creation of code is outside the scope of our support. Let me know if you have any question about the hooks.
April 7, 2025 at 12:09 pm #16904153
zakW	Hi Lucas, Thank you for confirming this. I will be running some test today and if I require any assistance with the hooks I will ask here. Once I have success with the duplications of the products I will mark this as resolved Thanks
April 8, 2025 at 7:44 am #16907232
zakW	Hi Lucas, Using the hook definitely works. I hope that this is implemented to the core of WPML and maybe use a cron job to help with a large volume of products. Makes more sense from an improving functionality point of view. Thank you for the help with this issue.