Migrate Polylang to WPML

Import multilingual data from Polylang to WPML

Installation and usage

• Backup your database! There is a reason why this plugin has the version number 0.1
• Deactivate Polylang.
• Activate both WPML Multilingual Blog/CMS and the (Migrate Polylang to WPML) plugins. If you also want to migrate string translations, activate WPML String Translation plugin.
• Finish the WPML Wizard (you will see it right after activation)
• If you have custom post types, go to WPML > Translation options (or WPML > Translation Management > Multilingual Content Setup) and set those types to be translatable.
• Go to Tools > Migrate from Polylang to WPML
• Click button "Migrate" and wait until the migration process is completed (it might take longer based on the size of the content you are migrating)
• Done. You can uninstall the (Migrate Polylang to WPML) plugin.

What this plugin does

• Configures WPML to have the same languages as they were in Polylang.
• Migrates all your posts, pages and custom post types and their translations.
• Migrates all your taxonomies (categories, tags and custom taxonomies) and their translations.
• Migrates your strings (only those which has been translated in Polylang and WPMl String Translation recognized and registered as correct string)
• Migrate widgets: You will need to activate WPML Widgets plugin.

What this plugin doesn't (yet)

• Migrate menus: Use the menu synchronization between languages option in WPML.
• Migrate other settings: This will be implemented progressively. For the time being, you are free to adjust them manually after the migration process is completed.

Support and feedback

• please report any issue or feature request at WPML forum
• please check Wiki page for known issues

Changelog

0.5.0

• Automatically set the translation preference to "translate" for translated custom post types.
• Added the support for duplicated (synced) posts.
• Fixed a fatal error "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot access offset of type string on string".
• Fixed several PHP warnings.

0.4

• Fixed an issue with not terminating import when importing terms.

0.3

• Resolved an issue with migration stopping on nginx server.

0.2

• Fixed the migration of Chinese languages and Portuguese (pt-pt and pt-br) languages.
• Fixed a case when the user has set synchronisation options (comp-3271).

0.1

• Initial release.