Using WPML with Product Import Export plugin for multilingual sites

Product Import Export plugin for WooCommerce helps you easily import and export products and product reviews to your store. The product Import Export plugin has been integrated with WPML and is now WPML compatible making the plugin works effortlessly with multilingual WooCommerce websites.

To harness the power of both the plugins, you need to purchase the Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce and WPML plugin. To know more about Product Import Export Plugin, visit the product page.

What you will need

Make sure you have the Product Import Export plugin with version 1.1.9 or above and a recent version of WPML (version 3.5.3.1 or above)

Getting Started and What to Check

Is your site already configured by your developer?
We simply recommend you to make sure the following plugins and options are activated.

Are you setting up WPML yourself?
Then you need to follow the steps below.

• Set up WPML from WPML -> Languages. See our WPML Getting Started Guide for a complete reference. The initial, simple three-step setup is self-explanatory, asking you to choose your default language, a set of active languages, and a language selector. (For starters, choose the footer language selector; you can change this later.)
• Install and activate the core WPML plugins first, followed by other WPML plugins that may depend on them.
• Install the Product Import Export Plugin for WooCommerce and activate it. You can refer to the plugin documentation on how to install and set up the plugin.

How to Change the Plugin Output with WPML

1 – Navigate to your WordPress Dashboard. Here, we have configured English as the default language and German as the secondary language.

2 – There are a total of 6 products added to the store. 3 of which are in English and 3 of which are in German.

3 – The flag on the toolbar indicates the current language of the products displayed. When listing English products the flag on the toolbar looks like this.

4 – When Listing German Products

5 – When you export products of all languages in the store, The exported CSV file has all the 6 products.

6 – You can export products that belong to the particular language. For example, When the admin is in German, and you export products, you can export all and only the products that are in German. For exporting, go to WooCommerce > Product Im-Ex

7 – Here is the exported CSV for the German language.