Multilingual Management With WPML And Avada

Last Update: September 6, 2024

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 (current version is 7.11.11).
  • A recent version of WPML (version 4.6.4 or above), including the String Translation, 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 Avada Builder. The following Avada Elements are currently supported by WPML:

Alert

Blog

Button

Chart

Checklist

Code Block

Content Boxes

Countdown

Counter Boxes

Counter Circles

Events

FAQ

Flip Boxes

Font Awesome Icon

Avada Slider

Gallery

Google Map

Image

Image Before & After

Image Carousel

Layer Slider

Lightbox

Menu Anchor

Modal

Modal Text Link

Person

Portfiolo

Post Slider

Pricing Table

Progress Bar

Recent Posts

Section Separator

Separator

Social Sharing

Slider

Social Links

Soundcloud

Syntax Highlighter

Table

Tabs

Tagline Box

Testimonials

Text Block

Title

Toggles

WPML Translate Eveything Mode

This is the quickest way to get your site translated. See this documentation for more details.

In the following video, you can see how WPML’s new ‘Translate Everything’ mode works. In just a few simple steps, one of Avada’s pre-built eCommerce websites is ready for an international audience.

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Translate Pages Built With The Avada Builder Video

WPML allows you to manually enable the translation of additional Avada Builder elements and element attributes. For more detail on that, please read their documentation or watch the video below:

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Translating Avada Builder Global Elements, Columns, and Containers

Translation support for global elements, rows, and sections is now supported by:

  • WPML Multilingual CMS (4.6.4 or above)
  • WPML String Translation (3.2.6 or above)
  • WPML Translation Management (2.10.8 or above)
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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.

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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.

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