{"id":4329,"date":"2020-03-27T10:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce\/is-multilanguage-migration-to-from-woocommerce-possible-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T03:06:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T03:06:52","slug":"multilanguage-migration-to-from-woocommerce-2","status":"publish","type":"docs","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/multilanguage-migration-to-from-woocommerce-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is multilanguage migration to\/from WooCommerce possible?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row block-notice\">\n<div id=\"block-notice\">\n<div id=\"language-notice-warning\" class=\"notice\">To make migrating multiple languages to WooCommerce possible, a paid\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPML module<\/a>\u00a0needs to installed and configured on your WordPress first (with all the needed languages added and configured properly). Afterward, you will additionally have to install the following WooCommerce modules (should be installed automatically):<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/related-projects\/woocommerce-multilingual\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WooCommerce Multilingual<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/translating-your-contents\/using-the-translation-editor\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPML Translation Management<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/getting-started-guide\/string-translation\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPML String Translation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/getting-started-guide\/media-translation\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WPML Media Translation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>What you should know about WPML:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1<b>.<\/b>\u00a0During the migration to WooCommerce with the module installed, WPML creates translated \u201ccopies\u201d of products and categories for each of the supported languages, i.e. if there are 2 languages (EN and GE), there\u2019ll be 2 localized copies of the very same product.<\/p>\n<p>2<b>.<\/b>\u00a0WPML supports translation of the following entities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Translating product categories (Description, Name)<\/li>\n<li>Translating products (Title, Slug, Description, Custom Product Attribute(Name, Value(s)))<\/li>\n<li>Translating product variations (Variation description)<\/li>\n<li>Translating Image Texts<\/li>\n<li>Translating URLs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>3. The paid module provided by a 3rd party company. LitExtension does not take responsibility for its performance. When migrating <b>to<\/b> or <b>from WooCommerce<\/b>, the module should be installed and configured beforehand of the data transfer. <b>If any of the multiple languages are not added to the language module, they won\u2019t be migrated.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Please, read the official instructions on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/related-projects\/woocommerce-multilingual\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">installing the WPML plugin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wpml.org\/documentation\/support\/editing-wpmls-languages-table\/?aid=152220&amp;affiliate_key=dbnIdBw9K0xa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">adding\/editing multiple languages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, products will be transferred in the default language only.<\/p>\n<p>In case you have any other questions, please reach out to us via:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/litextension.zendesk.com\/hc\/en-us\/signin?return_to=https%3A%2F%2Flitextension.zendesk.com%2Fhc%2Fen-us%2Frequests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ticket system<\/a> (highly recommended)<\/li>\n<li>Email us at <a href=\"mailto:contact@litextension.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact@litextension.com<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":16,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"doc_tag":[3902],"class_list":["post-4329","docs","type-docs","status-publish","hentry","doc_tag-multilanguage-migration"],"comment_count":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docs"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5957,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4329\/revisions\/5957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/21"}],"next":[{"title":"Can I migrate product options to WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/can-i-migrate-product-options-to-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4334"}],"prev":[{"title":"Is it possible to migrate the Product Cost from\/to WooCommerce?","link":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/docs\/shopping-cart-questions\/woocommerce-migration\/is-it-possible-to-migrate-the-product-cost-from-to-woocommerce\/","href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docs\/4323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"doc_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/litextension.com\/faq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/doc_tag?post=4329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}