Steps to Import Multilingual Products (Using WPML)
The Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce can be easily used for importing multilingual products with just three easy steps.
- Install, Activate and Configure the WPML Plugins
- Prepare the CSV to be imported.
- 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. However, it is essential to install, activate and configure these plugins in prior to importing multilingual products into your WordPress site.
Prepare the CSV to be Imported
Product Import Export plugin facilitates import of multilingual products with the help of a CSV file.
Apart from the default columns, three additional columns namely; wpml:language_code, wpml:original_product_id, wpml:original_product_sku must be included in the CSV for importing multilingual products. 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, needn’t 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.
Comments (15)
Evangelos
December 6, 2020
Hi,
Do you support importing product variations?
Thanks
Mark
December 8, 2020
Hi,
Currently, the plugin only supports WPML simple products. It does not support variable products.
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?
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.
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!
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 🙁
usr.cm
November 6, 2019
solved
Julien
March 11, 2021
Hello,
sorry but how did you do ?
I have same issue…
Thank you !
Alan
March 16, 2021
Hi,
Please reach us via support with your CSV fiel so that we can check it.
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 ?
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.
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
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.
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
December 16, 2020
Hi,
Sorry to say that the plugin does not support importing WPML variable products. It supports only WPML simple products.