{"id":4182,"date":"2020-01-31T18:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.welaunch.io\/wordpress-multilingual-multisite\/?post_type=faq&#038;p=698"},"modified":"2020-07-31T11:26:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T09:26:22","slug":"how-to-translate-wordpress-posts","status":"publish","type":"faq","link":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/knowledge-base\/faq\/how-to-translate-wordpress-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Translate WordPress Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For sure you want to know how you can translate posts. We show you how to translate an English page into a German one.<\/p>\n<p>First you need to have your site configured correctly. If you have not done this, go to wp-admin &gt; settings &gt; general. At the bottom set your language, locale &amp; country codes and save.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5748\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5748\" style=\"width: 781px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings.png\" alt=\"wordpress country and language settings\" width=\"781\" height=\"485\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings.png 781w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings-247x153.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings-510x317.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/wordpress-country-and-language-settings-768x477.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 781px) 100vw, 781px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5748\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">wordpress country and language settings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now go into a post, page or term. You will see a box called &#8220;connected posts&#8221; with a flag. Click on the flag to copy the English page into the German site. It will automatically connect both posts.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5746\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5746\" style=\"width: 1020px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5746\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-1024x501.png\" alt=\"all translated wp posts overview\" width=\"1020\" height=\"499\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-1024x501.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-247x121.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-510x250.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-300x147.png 300w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-768x376.png 768w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-1536x751.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/all-translated-wp-posts-overview-2048x1002.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1020px) 100vw, 1020px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5746\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">all translated wp posts overview<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you already created or copied a complete site, then simply choose the post from the select dropdown list. Update the post then.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5745\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5745\" style=\"width: 612px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5745\" src=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/connect-a-post-to-a-translated-one.png\" alt=\"connect a post to a translated one\" width=\"612\" height=\"588\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/connect-a-post-to-a-translated-one.png 612w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/connect-a-post-to-a-translated-one-247x237.png 247w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/connect-a-post-to-a-translated-one-510x490.png 510w, https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2020\/01\/connect-a-post-to-a-translated-one-300x288.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5745\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">connect a post to a translated one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When you edit the page now in the German version simply change the texts as you like. That&#8217;s it.<\/p>\n<p>Use a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/knowledge-base\/faq\/wordpress-machine-translation\/\">machine translation service<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/knowledge-base\/faq\/assign-translators\/\">assign a translator to your posts<\/a> if you do not translate yourself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","product_cat":[],"class_list":["post-4182","faq","type-faq","status-publish","hentry","faq_topics-multilingual-multisite-faq","faq_topics-multilingual-multisite-getting-started"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/faq"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5749,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/faq\/4182\/revisions\/5749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.welaunch.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=4182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}