eCommerce Product Catalog is a highly customizable custom post types based WordPress responsive plugin which allows you to manage and sell products through WordPress websites.
eCommerce Product Catalog is fully compatible with WPML (The WordPress Multilingual Plugin), which makes your product catalog multilingual.
eCommerce Product Catalog & WPML
To get started, you will need WPML and add-on Plugins, i.e. the core WPML Multilingual CMS which is always required and the String translations add-on.
A guide for installing & activating WPML is available in the WPML getting started guide.
Once you installed WPML and enabled products & product categories translation in WPML settings, you can add products in different languages. Whenever you add a product, you can now select in what language it has to be published, and WPML will do the hard work for you.
With the String Translation add-on, you can also translate the catalog texts from the settings: the front-end labels, the catalog name, the archive SEO title, the breadcrumbs title, the default attribute and shipping labels, and the custom currency symbol.
Price, SKU, MPN, weight, size and inventory are copied from the original product to its translations, so you only manage them once.
WPML Setup Steps
- In WPML > Settings, in the Post Types Translation and Taxonomies Translation sections, set products and product categories to be translatable
- Now in the Products screen and on the product edit page, you will see the options to add translations to each product
- Go to WPML > String Translation to translate the texts from the catalog settings.
Multilingual Product Catalog Issues
Please make sure that:
- The main catalog listing page is assigned in the catalog general settings
- The translation of your main catalog listing page has been added in each language
- Each translation of the main catalog page has the [show_product_catalog] shortcode or the Show Catalog block, like the original page. The plugin uses the translated main catalog page automatically for each language.
If you still have any problems with the translated pages, go to Settings > Permalinks and click Save Changes. If that doesn’t help, try to switch the Main Catalog Page to Default in the catalog general settings.