Multilingual with WPML

The All-in-one Video Gallery plugin is 100% translation-ready and compatible with WPML. This document will help you create a multilingual video gallery website using the WPML plugin.

The main goal of this document is to educate on how to use the All-in-One Video Gallery plugin with WPML. So, we don’t go through the steps of installing & configuring WPML. We would suggest checking their official WPML documentation for these instructions.

WPML has several plugins. This document requires at least the following 2 plugins to build a multilingual gallery website.

1. WPML Multilingual CMS
2. String Translation

Note: Kindly follow the instructions below in the same order this tutorial is written.

1. Configure Videos, Categories & Tags as translatable

Assuming that you already have the WPML plugin installed and set up on your website. Then, the first step is to enable our plugin’s post types and taxonomies on the WPML plugin’s settings page.

Navigate to “Dashboard / WPML / Settings“, locate the “Post Types Translation” section, select “Translatable” for the “Videos (aiovg_videos)” option, and click “Save“.

You would see there are 2 “Translatable” options. This is a WPML feature and you can choose any of the options that best suit your website setup.

Then, scroll down to the “Taxonomies Translation” section on the same page, select “Translatable” for the “Video Categories (aiovg_categories)” & “Video Tags (aiovg_tags)” options, and click “Save“.

Now, WPML would add “+” icons in our plugin’s Videos, Categories, and Tags pages to translate them to the other languages on your website.

But, before start translating the videos, we need to translate the standard WordPress pages added by our plugin during the installation and also the Categories & Tags.

2. Translate custom WordPress pages added by our plugin

During the installation, our plugin adds a few pages dynamically on your website that are internally used by the plugin. Following are those pages and you can find them under the “Dashboard / Pages” menu. Kindly translate these pages to all your site languages.

1. Video Category
2. Search Videos
3. User Videos
4. Player Embed
5. User Dashboard
6. Video Form

Each of the above pages (except “Player Embed”) includes a special shortcode in the page description. All these translated pages must include their relevant shortcode.

3. Translate Categories & Tags

The next step is to translate the categories and tags added using our plugin.

Navigate to “Dashboard / WPML / Taxonomy translation“, select “Video Categories” from the “Select the taxonomy to translate:” dropdown, and use the “+” icon there to quickly translate the categories.

Finally, switch to the “Hierarchy Synchronization” tab and click the “Update Taxonomy Hierarchy” button if available.

Follow the same steps to translate the “Video Tags“. Note the “Video Tags” option will not have the “Hierarchy Synchronization” tab and this is normal.

You can also edit the translations of our plugin categories (Dashboard / Video Gallery / Video Categories) and tags (Dashboard / Video Gallery / Video Tags) under their own pages.

4. Translate Videos

Now, it’s time to translate the videos.

Navigate to “Dashboard / Video Gallery / All Videos” and you will notice the WPML language options for each video. All videos are in your default language, and the column contains flags of the other language available.

To create a video version in another language, just click on the “+” icon in the desired language column. This will open an “Advanced Translation Editor” that will allow line-by-line translation.

By default, the editor will display content in “dual” mode, showing the original content and translation fields on the other side.

To translate a line of the content, you need to click on the matching translation field for each line and provide the translation. Once you have added all translations, click on “Complete” to create the translated video page.

Keep in mind that you will not be able to click the “Complete” button until you provide all translations. If you need to pause translating, just click on the “Back to list” button. This will save your current progress and take you back to the video list. To mark the translation in progress, you will notice that the “+” icon changed to the “cogs” icon. You can resume translating the page any time you want by clicking this icon.

Once you complete your translation and click the “Complete” button, the translated version of your video page will be automatically added and linked with the original. The existing translated versions are represented by a “pencil” icon instead of a “+” icon to mark that the translation exists.

When it comes to the front end, your designs will be automatically copied, and original content will be replaced with the translated content:

Now you can repeat these steps for all videos and languages.

5. Finally, Translation Strings

The final step is to translate the user input strings added using our “All-in-One Video Gallery” plugin’s settings pages.

Navigate to “Dashboard / WPML / String Translation” and use the “+” icon there to translate each of the user-defined strings.

That’s it.

Now, the Videos, Categories, and Tags display in their own language on your site’s front end.