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Translate Web Stories using WPML #13446

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Group: IntegrationIntegration with other platforms and pluginsGroup: WordPressChanges related to WordPress or Gutenberg integrationP3Nice to have

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@diiegopereira
diiegopereira
opened on Aug 28, 2023

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Hi there, this is Diego from the WPML Compatibility team.

We did some testing with the plugin and found that we can add translation support with WPML if the post_content value were wrapped in a gutenberg block.

For instance, instead of having just the HTML content inside post_content:

<html>
    ...
</html>

We could have something like:

<!-- wp:google/web-story -->
<html>
    ...
</html>
<!-- /wp:google/web-story -->

With this, we could use our language configuration file to find the strings using XPATH and then register and translate these strings: https://wpml.org/documentation/support/language-configuration-files/#gutenberg-blocks

Here is a quick example for the XML file:

<wpml-config>
  <custom-types>
    <custom-type translate="1">web-story</custom-type>
  </custom-types>  
  <gutenberg-blocks>
    <gutenberg-block type="google/web-story" translate="1">
      <xpath>/html/@lang</xpath>
      <xpath>/html/head/title</xpath>
      <xpath>//*[contains(@class,"text-wrapper")]//span</xpath>
    </gutenberg-block>
  </gutenberg-blocks>
</wpml-config>

This worked correctly as we can see here:

Would it be possible to implement this?

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