4. Connect your content

In a few words: you connect the content from one site to the other. This works the same for all content types, for example: posts, pages and categories. If you create a duplicate of a site everything will auto connected. So all existing content will be linked to each other automatically. For new content you need to do this yourself 🙂

1. This is how the translation box looks like for a post in the classic editor of WordPress.

2. This is how it looks for a post in the Gutenberg editor of WordPress.

3. This is how the translation box looks for a term (for example a category or post tag).

Let’s try it out! The steps are simple, type in the title/name you want to connect in the search field. Usually you will search on the title/name of the counterpart in the other language. For example, to find the ‘Example page’ you type ‘ex’.

Under the search field you will see results matchting with ‘ex’. Now you want to select the ‘Example page’ to connect to this page, click on the button ‘Example page’. It is good to know that the search results all filtered on content type. So if you search while editing a page, you will only see pages in de search results.

Now you can click on ‘Update’ to update the page and they will be connected.

To disconnect an object (page, post or category) simply click on the ‘Disconnect’ link in the translation box. After this you can click on ‘Update’ and the objects will nog longer be related to each other. After you update the object the translation box will be clean, like this:

To make translating and duplicating content easy, you can click on ‘Copy to ..’ link. After this you will be redirected to the other language with an exact duplicate of the object (page, post or category). It will also duplicate your media, so this will be available in the other translation. This will save you tons of work 🙂

You can view the status of your translation(s) in the list of pages/posts etc. So you can make sure all your content is available in all languages.