Multilingual Management With WPML And Avada
Overview
WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin) is one of the most popular translation plugins on the market. With WPML you can translate pages, posts, custom types, taxonomy, menus and even the theme’s texts. We work directly with the WPML team to guarantee 100% compatibility between Avada and the WPML plugin.
Requirements
To get started with Avada and WPML, you will need:
- A recent version of Avada (5.0.3 or above). The current version of Avada is 6.1.2 (Released on November 20th, 2019)
A recent version of WPML (version 3.7 or above), including the String Translation, Translation Management and Media translation add-ons.
Translating Your Content
With WPML and Avada, you can translate pages and posts and Avada Elements added to any page or post, using the Fusion Builder. The following Fusion Builder Elements are currently supported by WPML:
Translate Pages Built With The Fusion Builder Video
WPML allows you to manually enable the translation of additional Avada Theme/Fusion Builder elements and element attributes. For more detail on that, please read their documentation or watch the video below:
Translating Fusion Builder Global Elements, Columns, and Containers
Translation support for global elements, rows, and sections is now supported by:
- WPML Multilingual CMS (4.0.6 or above)
- WPML String Translation (2.8.6 or above)
- WPML Translation Management (2.6.6 or above)
WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor
WPML also offer an Advanced Translation Editor. The editor comes with key features like machine translation, a glossary, translation memory, spell checker, HTML-less editing, and more. To use it, it needs to be first activated on the WPML -> Settings page.
The main features it offers are these:
HTML Markers – The Advanced Translation Editor allows visual translation without having to edit HTML.
Machine Translation – The Advanced Translation Editor allows you to auto-translate the whole page at once, or a specific sentence you are currently editing. It supports most of the world languages.
Translation Memory – The Advanced Translation Editor breaks the content into sentences, allowing the editor to keep track of all the translated text. If there are repetitions, the editor will find and auto-complete the same phrases for you.
Glossary – The Advanced Translation Editor contains a Glossary, that allows you to inform translators of important keywords and phrases for which you want to suggest translations.
Spell checker – The built-in spell checker helps you avoid spelling errors and typos.
Please see the video below from WPML for more information, outlining the features offered by the Advanced Translation Editor.
Documentation & Resources
Below you will find documentation the WPML team has created, for using the WPML plugin specifically with Avada. If you’ve purchased WPML and have any questions or issues, please check the links below.
- WPML Getting Started Guide –It explains how to use WPML to translate the site as you are building it
WPML Plugin –The highly recommended plugin to manage multi-lingual sites
WPML Forum Support – If you bought WPML then you get free support from their amazing team
WPML Avada Documentation – This is created by the WPML developers and is specifically catered to Avada
Translating Widgets – Tutorial recommended by wpml team for translating widgets
- Fusion Theme Options – How to set different theme options with WPML