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Documentation/Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce/Steps to Import Multilingual Products (Using WPML)

Steps to Import Multilingual Products (Using WPML)

Last updated on May 8, 2022

With the Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce, you can easily import multilingual products in three steps.

  1. Install, Activate and Configure the WPML Plugins
  2. Prepare the CSV to be imported
  3. Import products using our Import Export plugin

Install, Activate and Configure the WPML Plugins

The product import export plugin is compatible with popular WPML plugins like Multilingual Tools, WPML Media, WPML Multilingual CMS, WPML String Translation, WPML Translation Management, and WooCommerce Multilingual.

Note: Please install, activate and configure the above mentioned WPML plugins in prior to importing multilingual products into your WordPress site.
Refer to the WPML Getting Started Guide for a complete reference.

Translating your site with WPML

Translation Modes

WPML offers two different translation modes:

  • Translate Everything : While setting up WPML, you can choose to automatically translate all your site’s content. Refer to this WPML guide for more information.
  • Translate Some: This mode of translation gives you more control over what to translate. You can go with this option if you do not want to translate your whole site. To learn more about this option, refer to this WPML guide.

Translating content in pages, posts, and custom post types

All the pages, posts, and custom post type contents will be translated using the Translate Everything mode. However, if automatic translation has not happened for any smaller texts, widgets or form fields, you can use the String Translation module for translating them.
Refer to this guide to know everything about WPML string translation.

If you have opted for the Translate some mode, you will have to translate the pages using the WPML’s Advanced translation editor. To use the Advanced translation editor:

  1. Navigate to WPML> Settings.
  2. Select the Translation Editor as: Advanced Translation Editor.
    Choosing Advanced translation mode in Settings
  3. Now, let us try to translate the post content by clicking on Edit as shown.
    Editing post for Translation
  4. In this edit page, on the right hand side, under the section: Translate this Document, click on the “+” icon of the language you want to edit. Here, we are translating the content to Italian.
    Translating the document
  5. In this Advanced translator editor window, click on the “+” icon to add translation. Click on Complete once you have added translations for all the content.
    Advanced translator editor

Refer to this guide to know more about translating content using WordPress editor or with WPML compatible page builders.

Translating your general plugin texts, including widgets and smaller texts

Worried about how to translate texts that are not in posts, pages or taxonomies?
Here, we have the WPML String Translator! The string translator translates all the general plugin texts, widgets, tagline of the site and every smaller text.
To translate the texts using String translator:

  1. Navigate to WPML> String Translation.
    String translation in wpml
  2. To translate the strings manually, simply click on the ”+” icon under the flag of the language you want to translate.
  3. Fill up the translated content and click on Enter to save the translation.
    Translation content to Italian
  4. To send the strings for translation, select the content and language. Click on the Translate button.
    Translating content using WPML string translation

You can either assign the translation job to yourself or to a local translator using the Advanced Translation Editor. Also, you can send the job to be translated by a translation service.
For more detailed information, you can refer to this guide.

Translating WooCommerce elements using WooCommerce Multilingual

​​You can fully translate your online store with the WooCommerce Multilingual addon of WPML. A detailed explanation of the entire translation process can be found here.

Preparing the CSV to Import WPML products

Product Import Export plugin facilitates import of multilingual products with the help of a CSV file. For updating multilingual products, apart from the default columns, these three additional columns must be included in the CSV:

  • wpml:language_code
  • wpml:original_product_id
  • wpml:original_product_sku

However during import, only one of these columns(wpml:original_product_id, wpml:original_product_sku) is required. The name of the columns and its format (underscore and colon) should be specified exactly in the same manner as it is given above.

  • In the wpml:language_code column, enter the code of the language to which the site has to be translated.
  • The product ID of the products can be entered in the wpml:original_product_id column.
  • Similarly, the product SKU can be entered in the wpml:original_product_sku column.

Sample CSV for WPML importing will be as shown below. Click Sample CSV of WPML to download a sample.

In the above example, you can see a product with parent SKU as A11 and product_id as 111. In order to import this product in English, Italian and German, you will have to include three additional columns wpml:language_code, wpml:original_product_id, wpml:original_product_sku.
Then, enter the code ‘en’ for English, ‘it’ for Italian, ‘de’ for German in the wpml:language_code column and enter 111 in the wpml:original_product_id column.

Note: Either product ID or SKU has to be given for importing products. Need not have to enter both of them.

Import Products using our Import Export Plugin

The steps involved in importing products is in the same manner as how normal products are imported. To know more about how the products are imported, click here.

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Comments (25)

  1. Marco

    June 21, 2022

    Hello!
    The actual release of the plugin will support WPML and the variable products with variations?
    Thanks

    Reply
    • Alan

      Alan

      June 22, 2022

      Hi,
      Currently, the plugin does not support WPML variable products. It supports only simple products.

      Reply
  2. Daniel Wilczak

    Daniel Wilczak

    June 7, 2022

    Hi, could you please explain what options should be selected for the import? When I am choosing “Skip import of new products: yes”, the product language gets overwritten. When I tried “Skip import of new products:no” the products are being added as a new product without a category, price or any other details.

    Reply
  3. Juntira Srikaew

    Juntira Srikaew

    February 28, 2022

    If I use polylang plugin to translate language What do I have to do?

    Reply
  4. Marcel de Warenburg

    Marcel de Warenburg

    January 6, 2022

    Hello,

    I would like to know if the above instruction are for new products.
    I have tried the Sample CSV but I get the notification: ‘Product with same ID already exists’

    Also it would be helpful to know how to add or update only one translation in case the product already exists.

    Anyway I cannot get it to work with the above instructions using the exact file as provided.

    Reply
    • Alan

      Alan

      January 10, 2022

      Hi,

      Yes, please follow the steps in the article for fresh importing products using the plugin.
      The ‘Product with same ID already exists’ error is displayed when there is already an existing product on your site with the same ID. The IDs has to be unique. Please ensure that the ID’s in the import CSV file is not already used on the site for a successful import.

      To import translation to the existing products you just have to add the wpml:original_product_ID/SKU and wpml:language code column in the CSV file. In the wpml:original_product_ID/SKU column you may please provide the ID/SKU of the existing original product.

      If you are still having issues with WPML import then please reach us via support.

      Reply
  5. Jaydeep Jagani

    August 12, 2021

    HI,

    I am using WPML so I need to import product into 2 Language ( EN + FR ). I have checked your document in which you said to add 3 field “wpml:language_code, wpml:original_product_id, wpml:original_product_sku” but what about the title + content, if I want to change the title and description of product in French language then how can I do that ?

    Also I have checked your sample csv in that also there is no field for language wise description

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      August 24, 2021

      Hi,

      You need to create a separate CSV row for each translation and in that row, you may please provide the data in the desired language.

      Reply
  6. Konstantinos Protopapadakis

    Evangelos

    December 6, 2020

    Hi,

    Do you support importing product variations?

    Thanks

    Reply
    • Mark

      Mark

      December 8, 2020

      Hi,

      Currently, the plugin only supports WPML simple products. It does not support variable products.

      Reply
  7. Danny Boktor

    Danny Boktor

    May 14, 2020

    I am not seeing the french products in the CSV export. But I do see that the three columns that are required already exist in the column mapping. Why is it that it doesn’t get added to the CSV file?

    Reply
    • Alan

      Alan

      May 14, 2020

      Hi,

      As per our understanding, you are having an issue with exporting the WPML products to the CSV file. Could you please try switching the admin panel language to French and try exporting the products.

      If the issue still persists please reach us via support.

      Reply
  8. AcGieg

    AcGieg

    January 8, 2020

    Hello,

    When our site was located at domain.com/wordpress, we used to click at WooCommerce > Product Import-Export (http://www.domain.com/wp-admin/admin.php?page=wf_woocommerce_csv_im_ex)

    Steps that we followed: https://www.webtoffee.com/steps-to-import-wpml-products/

    And we were able to export all our products.

    Fields that were being exported:
    ID
    post_title
    post_name
    post_excerpt
    post_content
    post_status
    sku images
    tax:product_cat
    tax:product_tag
    wpml:language_code
    wpml:original_product_id
    wpml:original_product_sku

    When we moved our site to domain.com, the last 3 fields (wpml:language_code, wpml:original_product_id, wpml:original_product_sku) disappeared and now we can’t import or export products using these 3 fields.

    The 3 fields are missing 🙁

    Could you please help us recover those fields?

    Thanks in advance!

    Reply
  9. AcGieg

    usr.cm

    November 6, 2019

    When I import products with language “de”, sometimes I get the message “Product already processed”, so it does not allow me to import the item because it’s using the same sku or id than the main language (en).

    When I get the message “Product updated successfully”, the product does not show in the german language.

    I’ve been fighting for hours with trials and errors and I’m still unable to upload the german language translation for my woocommerce products 🙁

    Reply
    • AcGieg

      usr.cm

      November 6, 2019

      solved

      Reply
      • Julien

        Julien

        March 11, 2021

        Hello,

        sorry but how did you do ?
        I have same issue…

        Thank you !

        Reply
        • Alan

          Alan

          March 16, 2021

          Hi,

          Please reach us via support with your CSV fiel so that we can check it.

          Reply
      • Marcel de Warenburg

        Marcel de Warenburg

        January 6, 2022

        I would also be curious how you did that because I am also still without result

        Reply
        • Alan

          Alan

          February 3, 2022

          Hi,

          Please use the below code snippet to import WPML products with the same SKU. You may please copy the snippet in the active theme’s fucntions.php file.
          https://gist.github.com/webtoffee-git/18ae356807bd901d97f0a1522f329269

          Reply
  10. haitham

    Haitham

    February 28, 2019

    Hi,

    I’m using your plugin with wmpl, I’ve two questions here:

    1- shall I duplicate all CSVcell from EN to AR language and translate any cell I want? so I’ll have two exact row except for the translation texts?

    2- what about variation products? shall I do it the same? duplication parent SKU and it’s children ?

    Reply
    • Alan

      Alan

      March 1, 2019

      Hi,

      1. Yes, you may please copy the data in the English(EN) products row to the second translation(AR) row and translate the fields as per your requirement. The final CSV will have two rows with the same data except for the translation text.

      2. Currently, the plugin supports importing/exporting of WPML simple products only. Support to importing/exporting of WPML variable products can be expected in future releases.

      Reply
      • David

        August 12, 2020

        Hi,
        i’m using your plugin with wmpl too and I’m looking to import WPML variable products. Is the integration of this functionality still planned in your plugin? If so, when will it be available. Thank you for your answer

        Reply
        • Alan

          Alan

          September 10, 2020

          Hi,

          Currently, the plugin is compatible with WPML simple products only. Our WPML compatibility is still under development and will try to include the WPML variable support in the upcoming releases.

          Reply
          • Gerardo

            November 20, 2020

            Aby update for the wpml import variation functionality? I’m using your plugin and I would like to have that functionality.

          • Mark

            Mark

            December 16, 2020

            Hi,

            Sorry to say that the plugin does not support importing WPML variable products. It supports only WPML simple products.

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