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Translating Views, Content Templates, Archives and Forms in WordPress

Views, Content Templates, WordPress Archives, and forms include texts you may want to translate. WPML lets you translate them like any post or page.

With Toolset, you design your whole site using the WordPress Block Editor. This is why the translation of these Toolset elements is the same as for posts and pages.

Translating Toolset elements

To translate Content Templates, WordPress Archives, Forms, and Views:

  1. Go to WPML → Translation Management. You can use the filter to locate the exact element you want to translate or scroll through the page to find it.
  2. Select the Toolset element you want to translate. Here’s how to translate different Toolset elements:
  • Views: Just send the page where the View is used for translation. WPML will automatically include any texts from the View.
  • Content Templates: Find and select these in the Content Templates section.
  • WordPress Archives: Look for them in the WordPress Archive Blocks section.
  • Forms: Forms appear under Toolset Forms. If a form doesn’t show up, try re-saving it and refreshing the Translation Management page.
Finding the Toolset elements you want to translate in WPML’s Translation Management
  1. Choose how you want to translate your content and send it for translation.

Translating the archive page title

After translating a WordPress Archive, you’ll notice that the archive page title on the front-end isn’t fully translated. 

This title typically has two parts:

1. The “Archives” label

The first part—“Archives”—comes from WordPress core translation files. It may already be translated depending on the language.

If it’s not translated, go to WPML → Translation Management and scroll down to Other texts (Strings). Search for the string Archives: %s and send it for translation.

If you’re translating by yourself, don’t change or remove %s, as it’s a placeholder.

If the string doesn’t appear, view the archive page on the frontend in the secondary language. This will help WPML detect and register the string. Then, return to the Other texts (Strings) section in Translation Management and try searching for it again.

2. The custom post type name

The second part of the title is the name of your custom post type.

To translate it, go to WPML → Translation Management and scroll to the Toolset Types CPT Labels section. Locate your custom post type name and send it for translation.

Here’s an example of how your fully translated archive title should look like:

Translated title of an WordPress Archive page

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