How to make WoodMart multilingual with WPML

After setting up WPML, you can translate WoodMart content, Theme Settings, Header Builder text, and other theme-specific strings. If WPML is not configured yet, start with Set up WPML.

Translate WoodMart content

WoodMart registers its main custom content types with WPML, including HTML Blocks, Portfolio projects, Slides, Popups, Floating blocks, and Product tabs. Translate them through the same workflow used for pages, posts, and products.

1. Navigate to Dashboard -> WPML -> Translation Dashboard and select the required content.

WoodMart content selected in the WPML Translation Dashboard
Select the WoodMart content you want to translate.

2. Choose the target languages and the translation method, then send the selected items for translation.

WPML translation method and translator selection
Choose how the selected content should be translated.

3. Open the assigned translation, complete the translated fields, and review the result.

WPML translations queue with assigned WoodMart content
Open an assigned item from the WPML translations queue.
Translated WoodMart page displayed in another language
Check the translated content on the frontend.

Translate Theme Settings strings

Texts saved in Theme Settings are configuration strings rather than page content. Open Dashboard -> WPML -> Translation Dashboard -> Other texts (Strings) and search for the required text.

WoodMart interface strings selected for translation in WPML
Select Theme Settings and interface strings for translation.

You can also navigate to Dashboard -> WPML -> String Translation and filter by the admin_texts_xts-woodmart-options domain. If a Theme Settings field is missing, use the admin-text translation controls in String Translation to register it first.

WoodMart Theme Settings fields in WPML admin text translation
Register the required Theme Settings field as an admin text when it is not listed.

Translate Header Builder content

Each WoodMart header has its own WPML string domain. First, open the required header in Dashboard -> WoodMart -> Header builder and find its ID in the browser URL.

WoodMart header ID highlighted in the Header Builder URL
Find the current header ID in the Header Builder URL.

Navigate to Dashboard -> WPML -> String Translation and select the admin_texts_whb_header_{HEADER_ID} domain, replacing {HEADER_ID} with the actual ID.

WoodMart Header Builder string domain selected in WPML
Filter String Translation by the domain of the required header.
Translating WoodMart Header Builder text with WPML
Translate the required Header Builder strings for each language.

Use a different header for a language

If a language requires a separate header structure, register the default_header Theme Settings field for translation and assign the required header ID to that language.

Default WoodMart header field prepared for translation in WPML
Translate the default header setting only when languages need different header layouts.

Add a language switcher to the header

Edit the required header and add the WPML Languages element where the language switcher should appear. For a mobile menu created with the Burger element, open the element settings, enable Show WPML languages, and optionally enable the language flag.

Translate widget text

Widget titles and other widget text can appear under Other texts (Strings) or in String Translation. Search for the visible text and translate it for the required languages.

Language controls for a classic WordPress widget with WPML
Classic widgets can also include WPML language visibility controls.

Find missing WoodMart strings

If a string is not available, navigate to Dashboard -> WPML -> Theme and plugins localization and scan WoodMart or the relevant plugin. Then search again under Other texts (Strings) or String Translation. For general string translation instructions, see Set up WPML.

Translate WooCommerce content

Use WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce for products, attributes, store URLs, currencies, and other WooCommerce content. Open its tools under Dashboard -> WooCommerce -> WCML. See the official WPML guide for the complete store translation workflow.

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