Essential Addons offers compatibility with the ever-so-popular WPML – WordPress Multilingual Translation Plugin. It allows you to translate your amazing websites built with Essential Addons for Elementor to any language you want. Follow these steps below to translate your Essential Addons Contents with WPML:
How To Configure WPML Plugin Settings #
To translate Essential Addons for Elementor pages with WPML, make sure that you have installed & activated the following plugins on your WordPress site: WPML Multilingual CMS and WPML String Translation. For more information about the installation process and general translation functionalities, you can check out this WPML doc.
After installing the above plugins, navigate to WPML→ Setup from your WordPress dashboard and select the current language of your website, as well as the language you want to translate your site to.
For example, in this tutorial, we will choose ‘French’ as the language we want to translate our website to. You will be able to add or remove languages afterwards.
Simply follow the on-screen instructions of WPML Setup wizard and add your site key. You will be prompted to choose how you want to translate your website. Here, you will get two options: ‘Translate Everything’ or ‘Translate Some’.
How To Use WPML ‘Translate Everything’ Feature? #
Essential Addons for Elementor is perfectly compatible with WPML ‘Translate Everything’ feature. This is a very useful and advanced feature that will automatically translate all of your content that you publish or update.
You can choose when to review each translation, before publishing or afterwards, from the list of given options below. You can change these settings later on by going to WPML→ Settings.
How To Use WPML ‘Translate Some’ Feature? #
If you would rather choose to translate only some of the content on your website, then you can choose the “Translate Some” option. This option lets you select who will handle the translations on your website, as you can see below.
You can change these settings later on by going to WPML→ Settings.
Next, to enable translation for your Elementor site pages, navigate to WPML ⮕ Languages and include your native language, a set of active languages you prefer, and a language selector.
After that, you can go to the WPML→ Settings page and configure the translation settings as per your preferences.
For instance, you can keep the ‘Advanced Translation Editor’ turned on from the Translation Editor section, as shown below.
How To Configure WPML In Essential Addons For Elementor Pages #
First of all, let’s make sure that you have your page/post built-in with Essential Addons for Elementor. 
Now, go to your WordPress Dashboard and open up your desired Posts/Pages depending on which you want to translate. Alongside your Pages/Posts you will see a ‘plus’ icon that will allow you to add translated versions for each language that you have specified for your site. Simply go ahead and click the ‘plus’ icon for the language you want to edit. 
If you are redirected to the Page/Post editor you will need to enable ‘Use WPML Translation Editor’ as seen below. This is the recommended method for managing translations with WPML. 
How To Translate Essential Addons For Elementor Pages #
If you have completed the configurations seen in previous steps, you will be redirected to WPML’s Advanced Translation Editor upon clicking the ‘plus’ icon. See below for an example of how we would add a French translation:
In the Advanced Translation Editor interface, you will see all the texts available for translation. Here you can add translations for Essential Addons content as you need. This is what you would see before adding your translations:
Simply just go ahead and translate the Strings in your chosen Language. Make sure to select the check box once you are done. Don’t forget to click on the ‘Complete’ button to make these changes effective.
How To Translate Essential Addons Plugin Strings With WPML String Translation? #
If you want to translate your Essential Addons for Elementor plugin strings, you can use the ‘String Translation’ feature with WPML. Navigate to WPML→ Theme and plugins localization from your WordPress dashboard.
Then scroll down to the ‘Strings in plugin’ section and click on the checkboxes for ‘Essential Addons for Elementor’ and ‘Essential Addons for Elementor – PRO’. Please while plugin strings are being scanned.
Afterwards, head over to WPML→ String Translation. From here, you can add translations for selected strings by clicking on the ‘+’ icon as shown below.
Final Outcome #
After you have finished translating in your chosen language, this is how your page/post is going to appear on your Elementor site for that particular language:
This is how you can easily build Multilingual websites with Essential Addons for Elementor and WPML. If you would like to know more about translating sites that use Elementor page builder, WPML has this detailed guide to assist you.
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