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    • jonmc
      jonmc last edited by

      Having a heck of a time finding info on this one...

      We're working on a multilingual website which uses WPML. I've used the All in One SEO plugin to customize meta data (title, description, etc). These strings do not appear in the list of translations in WPML.

      Does anyone have any experience with this setup? How do you enable WPML to translate meta data set via the AIO plugin?

      Thanks!

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      • jonmc
        jonmc @jonmc last edited by

        Update here.

        Long story short, you need to upgrade to All-in-One SEO Pack Pro to allow translation of meta fields.

        Our implementation is somewhat complicated, with the aim being to make the workflow for our translators as easy as possible. We use a self-hosted server running Weblate to manage string translation (both for our websites and for our product). On the Wordpress site we use a customised version of the WPML plugin.

        Things got complicated when exporting strings from WPML and importing to Weblate – talking to the sys admin who implemented it, the meta fields from All-in-One SEO were even trickier to get working.

        In any case, all working now 🙂 Keep any eye out for our site update coming soon here: https://vivaldi.com

        If anyone out there runs into this issue and needs details feel free to get in touch.

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        • jonmc
          jonmc @Seenlyst last edited by

          Still haven't resolved this one (unfortunately) - no response from AIO or WPML. 😕 I'll make note to update here once I have some answers!

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          • Seenlyst
            Seenlyst @jonmc last edited by

            So Jon have you found the solution to the problem? If yes maybe you can mark this as answered? Thnks 🙂

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            • jonmc
              jonmc @Seenlyst last edited by

              Checking it out. 🙂 Will leave a comment in this thread once I hear back in case anyone is curious.

              Thanks!

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              • jonmc
                jonmc @Nigel_Carr last edited by

                We're using the free version at the moment. Waiting for a response from AIO & WPML to confirm, but it's looking like this is a pro feature.

                Thanks for your help in any case!

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                • Seenlyst
                  Seenlyst @jonmc last edited by

                  Hmm that could be, but you should confirm with AIO and WPML support

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                  • Nigel_Carr
                    Nigel_Carr @jonmc last edited by

                    Hi Jon

                    Do you have the pro version of AIO? Apparently, if you do then the correct translation is sent to each of the language versions of a page or post.

                    https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/

                    Maybe it doesn't work with teh unpaid version?

                    Whatever you need the meta titles and descriptions to be in the correct language - little point having them in English.

                    Regards Nigel

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                    • jonmc
                      jonmc @Seenlyst last edited by

                      Thanks! I did see that page. The confusing thing is that the strings shown in their screenshots don't display in our implementation. The custom fields for 'aioseo' aren't listed as available to translate.

                      Could this be a feature of their Pro version that they don't explicitly advertise...?

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                      • jonmc
                        jonmc @Nigel_Carr last edited by

                        Thanks for the reply 🙂

                        We're all set re: hreflang tags for the pages. My concern is that I'm using the AIO plugin to customize the meta title & description. So, although the correct version of the page will be listed in SERPs (e.g example.com/fr/ for French users), the link preview will still display the English meta info.

                        Am I missing something here?

                        Thanks!

                        Jon

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                        • Nigel_Carr
                          Nigel_Carr last edited by

                          Hi Jon

                          I am with Joseph here - I use Yoast as well.

                          Just make sure that if you have multi-language version fo pages that you specify the hreflang tag on each.

                          https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag

                          Regards

                          Nigel

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                          • Seenlyst
                            Seenlyst last edited by

                            Hello there,

                            I am using Yoast and there's the option to have translated version of metas with Yoast, I have never use AIO, but I did find this document from WPML maybe you can check it out and see if it answered your question?

                            https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/

                            Regards,
                            Joseph Yap

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