{"id":3770,"date":"2017-04-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2017\/04\/03\/gpi-translation-services-connector-for-wordpress\/"},"modified":"2024-09-11T15:19:20","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:19:20","slug":"gpi-translation-services-connector-for-wordpress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/2017\/04\/03\/gpi-translation-services-connector-for-wordpress\/","title":{"rendered":"GPI Translation Services Connector for WordPress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) available. As an open source software, it gets enhanced by community contributors who constantly create plugins and themes.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress doesn&#8217;t support multilingual features out of the box, but there are plugins, like WPML, which allow the creation of a multilingual site. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.translationplugin.com\/index.php\/wordpress-translation-plugin\/?__hstc=65421041.d5ce2ad1488a7a8ce760ec1759ba8dee.1450704375361.1508173845551.1508247369910.215&amp;__hssc=65421041.6.1508247369910&amp;__hsfp=2716994186\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GPI&#8217;s Translation Services Connector for WordPress<\/a> serves as a WPML translation service.<\/p>\n<p>GPI&#8217;s connector enables users of WordPress-based websites to initiate translation workflows with a single click and gain access to an array of reports to track and manage global translation projects through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.translationportal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">GPI&#8217;s Translation Portal.<\/a><\/p>\n<h5>Getting Started<\/h5>\n<p>To send files for translation to GPI, you first have to log in to your <a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wpml.org<\/a> account, and download and install the following plugins on your website:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WPML Multilingual CMS: the core plugin.<\/li>\n<li>WPML Translation Management: this plugin will allow you to connect to GPI.<\/li>\n<li>WPML String Translation: this plugin will enable you to translate interface strings.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Activating and Authenticating GPI<\/h5>\n<p>Log in to your WordPress website, visit the <em>WPML-&gt;Translation Management<\/em> admin page, and click on the <em>Translators<\/em> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 811px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/translators.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Scroll down to <em>Available Translation Services<\/em> and click <em>Activate<\/em> to activate GPI.<\/p>\n<p>Once the service is activated, click the <em>Authenticate<\/em> button. This is where you will need the <strong>API Keys<\/strong> obtained in the previous step.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 955px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/authorize.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A popup window will appear in which you can paste or enter your GPI API Keys<em>.<\/em> After entering the values, clicking\u00a0<em>Submit<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 317px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/keys.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Your GPI account is now connected to your WordPress account. Now you are ready to send content for translation.<\/p>\n<h5>Sending your Content for Translation<\/h5>\n<p>To send pages for translation, go to the <em>Translation Management module WPML-&gt;Translation Management<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 160px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/menu.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Select the pages you want to translate by clicking the check boxes in the first column. Next, select the target languages by checking the boxes and click the <em>Add to translation basket<\/em> button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 877px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/jobs.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Go to Translation Management and click on the blinking tab at the top of the page, called <em>Translation Basket<\/em>. By clicking this tab, you will see a list of all the pages (jobs) that you added to the basket, as well as the languages these items are to be translated into.<\/p>\n<p>Here, you can verify the content you wish to translate, remove pages you incorrectly added and change the <em>Batch name<\/em>. The <em>Batch name<\/em> will be visible on the <em>Translation Jobs<\/em> tab and will help you find projects. When you are ready, simply click the <em>Send all items for translation<\/em> button to send everything to GPI.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/connector20for20wordpress20-206_890x606.jpg\" alt=\"Connector for WordPress - 6\" width=\"700\" height=\"606\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the translation basket&#8217;s contents have been successfully sent to GPI, you will see a confirmation message, as shown in the following figure.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 586px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/batches.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Click on the <em>Translation Jobs<\/em> link you are given in the confirmation message or click on the <em>Translation Jobs<\/em> tab at the top of the screen. From the next administration screen, you can see the <em>Batch<\/em> you just sent to GPI for translation.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/connector20for20wordpress20-208_865x355.jpg\" alt=\"Connector for WordPress - 8\" width=\"865\" height=\"355\" \/><\/p>\n<h5>Receiving Completed Translations<\/h5>\n<p>As soon as a translation job is finished by GPI, it will be ready to be delivered to your website and you will receive a notification email from GPI.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the <em>Translation jobs<\/em> tab and click the <em>Synchronize status<\/em> button.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 341px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/batches.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Depending on your configuration, translations will be delivered automatically or can be manually fetched from your WordPress admin panel after you click the <em>Synchronize status<\/em> button.<\/p>\n<p>To check your configuration settings, open <em>WPML-&gt;Translation Management<\/em> and click on the <em>Multilingual Content Setup<\/em> tab. Find the <em>Translation Pickup mode<\/em> section and check the selected option.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 928px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/mode.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Translation Service will deliver translations automatically using the XML-RPC<\/em> option implies that a translation will be delivered to your website automatically after clicking the <em>Synchronize status<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<li><em>The site will fetch translations manually option<\/em> implies that completed translations can be downloaded from the <em>Translations Dashboard (WPML-&gt;Translation Management)<\/em> by using the <em>Get completed translations<\/em> button at the bottom of the page after clicking the <em>Synchronize status<\/em> button.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"large\" style=\"width: 440px; height: auto; margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/gettranslations.webp\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the jobs are fetched, their status in the <em>Translation Jobs<\/em> tab will be changed to &#8216;Complete&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalizationpartners.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/connector20for20wordpress20-2010_903x356.jpg\" alt=\"Connector for WordPress - 10\" width=\"903\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WordPress is one of the most popular content management systems (CMS) available. 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