Hello! I’ve been in contact with the WPML support. This issue is taking an eternity for them, and this seems to be a problem with Newspaper and WPML in combination. So I write to you too and hope that one of you can fix it. Both of you claim that your software should work together. This is urgent, we would have launched the site already last week if this would have worked.
We started with one of the theme’s ready-made pages and began modifying it. Currently, we only have Wordfence, the TagDiv plugins required by the theme, WPML multilingual + string translation, and UpdraftPlus installed.
Symptoms:
The translatable strings appear as gibberish. On one page, all strings in both the source language (English) and the automatic translation to Swedish are just one hashtag. On another page, the source language looks like random characters, although the automatic translation to Swedish is sensible. It also seems like all strings are not picked up to become translated.
What is causing the translatable strings to appear as gibberish or random characters? Can you make the theme actually compatible with WPML?
Hi,
When using WPML with our theme, please make sure it is configured as shown in our guide:
https://forum.tagdiv.com/using-theme-translations-together-wpml/
Also, keep in mind that all templates and pages built with a page builder must be translated manually. Automatic translation should only be used for content created with the WordPress editor (Gutenberg or Classic Editor).
If everything has been set up properly, the results should be fine. If you’re still experiencing issues, please share a link to your website so we can check the situation and provide further assistance.
Thank you!
Hi Calin!
Okay, so basically the normal workflow with WPML doesn’t work at all with Newspaper? The thing we need to do with our pages is to just skip the translation part in WPML, copy over the original language to the translated language and then edit in the page builder? That just sounds like a hack. If we later change the page, then what?
Hi,
Just a quick note regarding using the Newspaper theme with WPML:
For each page or template created with tagDiv Composer, you’ll need to duplicate it for the desired language in order to create a translated version. Once duplicated, you can edit the content using the tagDiv Builder keeping the original layout if you like, or adjusting it as needed for the translated version.
That automatic translation through WPML is only available for articles and pages made with the WordPress editor. Pages or templates created with builders like tagDiv will need to be translated manually.
I don’t need automatic translation, I just need a somewhat normal translation workflow. We are following that guide that you sent for now, doing it is faster than waiting for either TagDiv or WPML to fix things. But that guide is just a hack, not a solution.
Hi,
We know WPML might work a bit differently with other themes, but with the Newspaper theme, translations for pages and cloud templates are handled through the built-in TagDiv Composer.
Thanks so much for your understanding, and we’re really sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
