newspaper 9 theme is compatible with wpml (https://wpml.org) or not?
Hello Bilgin Irmak,
Yes, our theme is fully compatible with this such a plugin. Check here -> https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-theme-translations-together-wpml/
Thanks for your understanding!
Hi Catalin,
I have used Newspaper for several projects and I am very happy with the results and your support over the years.
However, I recently was asked by a client to create an Arabic localisation of a site and so chose WPML as the plugin to go with based on your recommendations and having viewed pages from both TagDiv and WPML showing how good it looked.
I have installed WPML although I am not getting the opportunity to translate pages built with TagDiv Composer. Here is a link to the support request with WPML https://wpml.org/forums/topic/tagdiv-newspaper-theme-pages-made-with-tagdiv-composer-just-not-editable/
Unfortunately the response from WPML doesn’t acknowledge that Newspaper is officially supported and now they want FTP and WordPress access to sort the issue.
I was hoping that you guys could perhaps take a quick look at the support link above and see if you have any suggestions as to what the issue may be.
Thanks in advance for your response
Hi,
There should be an option to translate pages, regardless of what was used to build them. For example in these places
– https://www.screencast.com/t/1oK4HvabbcL
– https://www.screencast.com/t/tBjxdAK4yLx
None of those options are appearing in your case? Or maybe I misunderstand the problem. Let me know.
Thanks
Hi Simon,
Thanks for the quick reply.
OK, so I get both the options you have shown in the screencasts. However, when I click on “Translate +” from “Edit Page” I have no option to translate the content built with the TagDiv composer (see here https://cdn.wpml.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/2890516-Screenshot_2018_11_08_18.13.49.png?x59034).
Both TagDiv and WPML examples say that I should get all the individual fields to translate from this view as shown here: https://wpml.org/documentation/theme-compatibility/create-multilingual-wordpress-websites-using-the-newspaper-theme-and-wpml/
Does this make sense now?
Thanks 🙂
Hi,
I believe you have installed the WPML Translation Management plugin
– https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/page-builders/
Our page builder will encode the page content so translating a page with this module would not be possible. Maybe this will change in the future, can’t say for sure what will happen. Sorry for any inconvenience.
The alternative is to switch the pages when the language is changed.
For example I have this page in a language – https://www.screencast.com/t/wUVMxwx6qlV
Clicking on the translate option will open a new page which you can build
– https://www.screencast.com/t/yWKrq5fBxTI
So depending on language selected the appropriate page will be displayed. You can create a page for each language you have enabled.
I currently have the WPML Multilingual CMS and the WPML String Translation plugins installed. The WPML Translation Management plugin is not installed.
Thanks
HI,
OK – Thanks for this although FYI I think your guys need to speak with their guys because it seems (from my perspective) you are both making claims which are not true about each other!
So, I have now deactivated the WPML Translation Management Plugin and I can now create a page using the composer which is great…Thank you.
However…On a very different note….The translation I am doing is in Arabic and I am running into difficulties now due to the fact that wordpress is forcing the content to run Right to Left…Is there any advice you can give to help on this? I see that Newspaper does not support RTL html.
Thanks Again
Hi,
We will try to find a solution for full compatibility regarding the tagDiv composer and WPML. Sorry again for any inconvenience.
It is true that the theme does not support RTL. The design is not optimized for a RTL environment, so there will be various problems in this case.
When creating a RTL website it would be best to use a theme that has been created with this in mind, or has support for RTL. I can’t say I know how I can be of help unfortunately.
Thanks
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