bilingual store is losing product attributes in translation
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Hi.
I’m designing an online store in 2 languages, and have used wpml to create the bilingual site.
Everything is working fine apart from one important feature.
A number of products are created via a plugin (printful) which has automated features such as shipping cost calculation. This works fine until i translate the product – the basic variations are still there (size, colour etc) but the automated side is lost.
I’ve tried translating via wpml and also with the basic wordpress multilingual. I’ve also tried duplicating a product and then assigning it to the second language and also leaving it in the default language.So basically this problem of losing the automated features is caused by duplicating the product. I think it must be losing product data. These are variable products but i don’t see any details in the product data (sku etc) that can be copied over.
I’m trying workarounds but nothing is ideal. If i create the product twice – once in each language, then the automated features are there. But doing this means they are independent products rather than translations of each product, and if a user switches languages during the shopping process the cart is affected as some products could be in the default language system and others in the second language. Effectively they don’t exist in one language or the other so don’t show up in the cart.
I know it’s not likely that users will change language half way through but it is a possibility that i’d rather avoid.
Does anybody know of a way to duplicate a product retaining all of the extra features, or a better idea for a workaround than I have come up with?
Any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
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