How to ensure page content is automatically translated to French

  • Hello. I’ve created a French version of my website using the WPML plugin French site here. My issue is that every post on this French site still has all page content in English, not French. As you can see in this example post–you can see that the menus, footer, etc are in French, but the content is still in English (e.g. “A spacious 3 bedroom villa located…”). Is there a way to automatically apply a French Google translation of *this content only* on each of these posts? In other words, when a visitor opens this page, the content in-question would automatically be translated to French, via Google Translate.

    I realize that, using the WPML plugin, I can add translations to each of these posts–one by one–via the WordPress editor. And indeed, that’s the entire purpose of using WPML. But I have ~500 of these custom posts. I am working on manual translations for each. But in the meantime, I was hoping to add automatic machine translations, if possible.

    There are plugins that do something similar. But I believe they all attempt to translate the entire page, including menus, footer, etc. This is undesirable, since I already have manual translations of those. Plus, I’m not sure if any *automatically* apply a particular translation. I would like a solution that automatically translates page content only. Additionally, none of those plugins are compatible with WPML (I’ve confirmed that with WPML support). Using both together introduces issues. In fact, I already use one such plugin, and had to deal with issues from using both together.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • I believe you are using Paid version of WPML.
    This support forum is specific for WordPress. For WPML please post your topic here

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    My question is separate to WPML. I have indeed used WPML to translate some content on my site. But I’m looking for a solution that will translate other, untranslated content, separate to WPML.

    Using GTranslate you have an option that you can do manually or automated translation.

    Once you activated the GTranlate your whole site will be translated automatically(Using Google translate). Also you have an option where you can do edit string which are not translated properly.
    Hope you it will help.

    Thread Starter cag8f

    (@cag8f)

    Thanks for that. But as I mentioned in my original post, a plugin that translates all content on the page is undesirable in this case. Such a plugin will attempt to apply a Google translation to content I have already manually translated into French using WPML (e.g. menus, footer, etc). This doesn’t sound like it would be an issue, but I when I used another plugin to do this (Google Language Translator), it did not do well. When I did so, the plugin applied different, incorrect, translations for that content. This is why I am looking for a solution that can translate only the page content, and ignore other content (e.g. menus, footer, etc).

    Thanks.

    Unfortunately in your case there is no ready-made solution available.
    Also the pluginGoogle Language Translator is different from GTranslate.
    I suggest please post same question to GTranslate forum you may get some help from there.

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