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Last updated by Kor 1 week, 4 days ago.

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October 21, 2025 at 9:40 am #17502311

michaelR-151

Thank you Kor.

4 things:

1.
Thanks. Can you see that the 50.000 words was added, and they was used? Is this use amount normal for 1.200 items x 2 languages? Could there be an error?

2.
The cogwheel in the top is stuck running again, for the aprox. 8. time. I would like very much to get rid of this error. Can you go deeper and fix this for good? See 2 x pics. Running and running and running - again!

3.
One word keeps going back to danish, but was translated to spansih 3 times, but keeps going back. Look:

Original danish: Søg ...
Spanish: Buscar ...
English: Search ...

I have put this in the Glossary, to prevent "Buscar ..." to being changed to "Søg ...", must be "Buscar ..." and I have done what should be needed to keep translations. Look in Glossary or give me a hint to fix this.

4.
I have problems with Google Merchant Center and WPML. Now no items are approved at GMC. This is important, as no approved items hurts our sale.

Question: Does WPML and 3 languages work well with the Google for WooCommerce plugin? If YES, then please tell me what to change to have the items works and get approved. If NO then please tell me if:
"Product Feed Manager For WooCommerce – Sell on 200+ Online Marketplaces" or
"CTX Feed – WooCommerce Product Feed Manager" or
"Product Feed for Google Shopping, Microsoft Advertising and 40+ Channels for WooCommerce Merchant"
... will do the job? Fine if I do not need a plugin more, but if I do need it, I better get it fast, as dead items is expensive.

Same user + password as last time.

Regards.
Michael

October 21, 2025 at 7:04 pm #17504382

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your patience. I can see the glossary is being translated correctly here hidden link . Are you trying to translate the "search" form here hidden link but failing?

October 21, 2025 at 10:01 pm #17504713

michaelR-151

Hi.

Yes, I am just trying to use the glossary as I think it works.

I think it works like this. If you make an entry in the glossary, for example:

Søg (danish)
Buscar (spanish)
Search (eng.)

Then WPML looks in the glossary everytime it translates anything, anywhere, in the installation, and if WPML comes by "Søg" and the language is ES then it translates "Søg" to "Buscar".

Simple and nice.

But either 1) it has a fault in my installation, or 2) glossary does not work like that.

What is the case?

October 22, 2025 at 4:37 pm #17509234

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. I've translated the Search form here hidden link... and it works fine as shown in the attached screenshot.

However, there appears to be a cache-related issue, as it is not displaying the correct string on the frontend yet.

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October 22, 2025 at 6:51 pm #17509883

michaelR-151

Hi.

Thank you, and I works not. The cache is proberly flushed.

I have done like you 5 times, but WPML keept changing it back. Do you know why?

Therefore I found Glossary, and it looked just right for the purpose, but as you do not answer my questions, I do not know if this works like I think or not, and if this can be used in this case.

This is very important to me and other customers:
Over the 50 mails we have sent to each other, some times I have to go back and ask again for crucial important questions, where your answer will show me the way forward, depending on what you answer. My problem is you dont answer?!?

What do I mean? Go back to my mail before yours here and read my text. Does your answer give me what I ask for? You solve the problem, but there is a very important question about the function of Glossary. Very important, I need the answer to either use Gloassary or not in the future. Where is your answer to my mail before this?

Please always answer questions, it is so hard to repeat them 😀

Regards Michael

October 23, 2025 at 6:29 am #17510877

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, I focused on explaining how to translate the search form field and overlooked your question about the glossary. The glossary is only used within the Advanced Translation Editor and doesn’t apply to translating strings that appear on your website. You can learn more about it here: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/advanced-translation-editor/how-to-create-and-manage-glossary-entries/

I’ve cleared the cache several times, and it’s displaying correctly now. I also checked using an incognito browser, as shown in the attached screenshot. Please note that strings on your website can only be translated through the String Translation, while your page and post contents should be translated using the Advanced Translation Editor.

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October 23, 2025 at 2:59 pm #17513069

michaelR-151

Thanks Kor!

I was waiting for that answer, as it has great influence of the choice if I should use this universally as a way to lock translations into place and not have them destroied.

But ok, glossary can be used for thing that are not string translated.

Could be nice if it work all over, but now I know and can use that knowledge.

Is it so that if I string translate a sentence, then nothing auto re-tranlates this?

Because, I have translated "Søg" to "Buscar" and "Search" 5+ times, and it keeps becomming "Søg" in spanish, but english keeps its "Search" and works. Only the spanish keeps reurning to danish, and it is wrong. Now after you did it, it stays "Buscar" - why? What should I have done to make it stick?

October 24, 2025 at 4:48 pm #17517659

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. You cannot translate strings using Glossary, and I'm not sure why your changes are not saving. Are you able to replicate this again?

So, what I've done is to search for the string using the String translation here hidden link and translate it. I did not do anything else other than this.