{"id":1896587,"date":"2019-10-18T13:19:32","date_gmt":"2019-10-18T17:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/creating-translations-for-events-using-wpml-2\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T07:41:07","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:41:07","slug":"creating-translations-for-events-using-wpml","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.theeventscalendar.com\/knowledgebase\/creating-translations-for-events-using-wpml\/","title":{"rendered":"WPML Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Once WPML is\u00a0set up and configured<\/a>\u00a0to work with The Events Calendar, you can show your calendar in different languages. This article reviews some important tips for using the two plugins together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\ud83d\udca1 This article assumes some familiarity with using WPML. If you are new to WPML, you’ll want to review\u00a0their Getting Started Guide<\/a> before moving on to translating events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When viewing the Events within your WordPress dashboard, you’ll now see the additional column for managing the translations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Creating<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Just like when you’re creating translations for your posts or your pages, you can use any of the “+” signs to create the related translation for your events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Essential steps<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are some crucial things you will need to remember when creating translated\u00a0versions of your events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Start by selecting the language of the event.<\/strong> This will dictate what the original language of the event will display as on the front end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Select a translation priority.<\/strong> This will prioritize the translation work according to your project’s needs. You can read more about this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Language<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After hitting that button, you might want to modify the title of the event and<\/em> its permalink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Edit<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Venues and Organizers<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There are still a few glitches in place when it comes to the interaction between our plugins and WPML with Venues and Organizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Known issues:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. Organizer and Venue<\/strong>: Creating a new venue or a new organizer at the same time you are creating an event with WPML will result in the newly created venue or organizer to not be assigned a language for technical reasons. We recommend not doing that for now.<\/li>
  2. Venue<\/strong>: Sometimes the Google map related to a venue might not display in alternate languages in the single event view. This issue only affects certain WordPress themes.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Workarounds<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    1. Organizer and Venue: <\/strong>Try creating Venues and Organizers and their translations before<\/em> creating events. You can also create them after, but that will require going back in each event in all languages and manually assigning the Organizer and Venue.<\/li>
    2. Venue<\/strong>: If you are experiencing issues displaying the Google map related to a venue in one or many languages, please ensure that the “use latitude +longitude” box is checked.
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      Events Calendar Pro Recurring events<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

      The recurring events feature in Events Calendar Pro<\/a>\u00a04.3 and above supports\u00a0WPML translations. Earlier versions do not support WPML with recurring events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The procedure for dealing with recurring events is exactly the same as for normal events:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      1. Create your event and recurrence rules in the site’s main language.<\/li>
      2. Follow the essential steps<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>above for dealing with translations of those recurring events.<\/li>
      3. Make sure you have read about our issues with Venues and Organizers<\/a>.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

        Very important: <\/strong>in spite of the “You can safely navigate away” message, it is important that you do not switch language until the event series has been fully created.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Otherwise, some of the recurring events will be created in the language you have switched to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

        Translations in the WordPress admin<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

        At this time, there are a few known instances where text related to events in the WordPress admin is missing translations. Those instances include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n