I have a client who designs websites. He'd like my help to translate his Wordpress sites. I found a page on Wordpress that discusses this: https://wpml.org/translation-service/sdl-language-cloud/ and I'm curious t know if anyone has tried this and if results were successful. Thanks for any feedback.
Sonia
Dear Sonia Gouin ,
I saw this post in my alerts - I have been translating content from our WordPress website since 2016 - and it uses WPML to handle content (in our case in German and English). My experience from the last 7 years has been as follows:
The exported .xliff files by WPML have been full of extra (unnecessary?) tags.
I have instead usually copied posts or pages from the code view in the backend of WordPress and saved them as .html files. I have used a number of regexes to ensure that certain shortcodes (insertions into the code view in square brackets) are converted into tags, and/or that only certain parts are translated.
Recently with our site moving over to Gutenberg blocks (having previously used the classic view) I have encountered a lot of problems with blocks that use unicode character renderings. I really struggled to find a surefire way to convert them quickly (other than a macro in Notepad++) to allow me to translate them and handle formatting in one go.
A useful thread (or I found it useful!)
Hope this might help!
Michael
I noticed that following the latest update to WPML that it now offers me the possibility not to only translate through the WPML Translation Editor but also through the WordPress Editor. In the latter case it advises the latter case is for some plugins that are not compatible with the WPML Translation Editor (these might be the ones that I mentioned in my previous response).
Michael
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