Plugin Contributor
jomo
(@jonathanmoorebcsorg)
Polyang and WooCommerce integration don’t really affect your import process, at least into base language, since they don’t change the WooCommerce data.
The only thing to note is that this plugin does not support creating/import variations in the second language, second language variations need to be synchronised from base language and cant be copied.
The normal process should be:
Import variation products in base language [not part of WooCommerce-Polylang]
Add new language to Polylang and translate WooCommerce Pages, Product Categories, Product Tags, Product Attributes
Import products without variations into secondary language
Open each product for editing and in the language panel, link the product up with it’s translation: press save and the variations should be copied across
Your description isn’t clear so I don’t know if this helps:
I cannot change settings to translate varibale products.
I don’t know what this means, which settings you are referring to:
group ID is different for each translation
I don’t know what this means, WooCommerce does not have a “group ID” field
Thread Starter
qsz
(@qsz)
@jonathanmoorebcsorg, thank you for answer.
I’ve found tutorial, and it shows how to integrate products. Unfortunately I do not have such tab in “wp all import” plugin which connects products by sku.
Regarding group ID – it is feature of WPAI and it is the way of creating variation products.
The normal process should be:
Import variation products in base language [not part of WooCommerce-Polylang]
Add new language to Polylang and translate WooCommerce Pages, Product Categories, Product Tags, Product Attributes
Import products without variations into secondary language
Open each product for editing and in the language panel, link the product up with it’s translation: press save and the variations should be copied across
Does it mean that I should manualy edit each product and create translation for each one?
Or are there ways to synchronize products automaticaly?
Plugin Contributor
jomo
(@jonathanmoorebcsorg)
As a general point, importing products with WPAI has nothing to do with Polylang or with this plugin, you need to ask on WPAI forum.
As far as I can see the only Polylang relevance is to set the language in Polyland and set the correct language code during the import, which again WPAI is advising you how to do and has nothing to do with this plugin.
Posts, Pages, Product and other translations are linked in Polylang by using the language panel that appears on the post edit page. That is also nothing to do with this plugin: see the Polylang help if not clear.
>are there ways to synchronize products automaticaly?
Yes, the product attributes are normally synchronised between translations, that’s exactly the reason it is not normally necessary to import all the detail in the other languagues, because as soon as the products are linked up, the details will be synchronised over.
This especially applies to variations as previously indicated.
This plugin does help manage which product information is synchronised, please check the documentation: https://github.com/hyyan/woo-poly-integration/wiki
I see that WP All Import is a commercial product: please note this woo-poly plugin is not a commercial product and is only supported by volunteers in their spare time, so if you need help with the import, please direct your enquiries to the import plugin.
I’m marking this thread as resolved as you have not actually identified any issue with the Hyyan plugin.
Thread Starter
qsz
(@qsz)
Thank you very much! Everything now clear =)
Moreover you explained everything even when the problem was not even connected with integration plugin. Of course I’m thankful and appreciate the help and time spent on this awesome integration plugin! Thank you!
Plugin Contributor
jomo
(@jonathanmoorebcsorg)
Thread Starter
qsz
(@qsz)
Good afternoon, sorry for disturbing. I have one more question: do you plan to make same function as Polylang for WooCommerce has?
They use new import and export schema.
Plugin Contributor
jomo
(@jonathanmoorebcsorg)
I am not sure about their approach: if you import all the languages in the same file then, for the fields which are supposed to be the same across all languages which data wins?
Also the importer in WooCommerce 3.1 is quite new and still has some problems, for example if there are commas in any of your categories or attributes. Also for me it didn’t work for variations (even without polylang) and I ran out of time to investigate further.
There is some discussion and updates in the 1.0.2 branch:
https://github.com/hyyan/woo-poly-integration/issues/208
(the update for now is if you import updates to existing products in one language, it will synchronise the meta and product attributes to the other languages according to the settings for this plugin).
Lastly, please note, you should not raise new questions on an existing issue.
