Michael Bailey

I think the only way you'll be able to handle this is by dealing with this separately, maybe using the regex delimited text filetype.  These are html comments as you know and we don't have any capability for extracting the text within them.

So I'd do this (if you have many of them to handle):

1. translate the html files
2. as you get them back run them through the regex delimited filetype to extract only what you need in the comment

If you only have a couple I'd probably just do them manually.

Dear Paul - thanks for the response. This is what I feared the outcome might be. Our web agency is slowly realising that that WPML has limitations for translation purpose the more customised the theme and use of plug-ins becomes...

As a postscript - while revisiting this question after another use case, I stumbled over Paul's blogpost from March 2020 - https://multifarious.filkin.com/2020/03/16/the-versatile-regex-based-text-filter-in-trados-studio/ which I can recommend for others.