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Translating meta tags using WPML and AIO SEO
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Having a heck of a time finding info on this one...
We're working on a multilingual website which uses WPML. I've used the All in One SEO plugin to customize meta data (title, description, etc). These strings do not appear in the list of translations in WPML.
Does anyone have any experience with this setup? How do you enable WPML to translate meta data set via the AIO plugin?
Thanks!
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Update here.
Long story short, you need to upgrade to All-in-One SEO Pack Pro to allow translation of meta fields.
Our implementation is somewhat complicated, with the aim being to make the workflow for our translators as easy as possible. We use a self-hosted server running Weblate to manage string translation (both for our websites and for our product). On the Wordpress site we use a customised version of the WPML plugin.
Things got complicated when exporting strings from WPML and importing to Weblate – talking to the sys admin who implemented it, the meta fields from All-in-One SEO were even trickier to get working.
In any case, all working now
Keep any eye out for our site update coming soon here: https://vivaldi.comIf anyone out there runs into this issue and needs details feel free to get in touch.
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Still haven't resolved this one (unfortunately) - no response from AIO or WPML.
![😕](https://moz.com/community/q/assets/plugins/nodebb-plugin-emoji/emoji/android/1f615.png?v=5e11mjijs33 ":\")
I'll make note to update here once I have some answers! -
So Jon have you found the solution to the problem? If yes maybe you can mark this as answered? Thnks
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Checking it out.
Will leave a comment in this thread once I hear back in case anyone is curious.Thanks!
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We're using the free version at the moment. Waiting for a response from AIO & WPML to confirm, but it's looking like this is a pro feature.
Thanks for your help in any case!
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Hmm that could be, but you should confirm with AIO and WPML support
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Hi Jon
Do you have the pro version of AIO? Apparently, if you do then the correct translation is sent to each of the language versions of a page or post.
https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/
Maybe it doesn't work with teh unpaid version?
Whatever you need the meta titles and descriptions to be in the correct language - little point having them in English.
Regards Nigel
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Thanks! I did see that page. The confusing thing is that the strings shown in their screenshots don't display in our implementation. The custom fields for 'aioseo' aren't listed as available to translate.
Could this be a feature of their Pro version that they don't explicitly advertise...?
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Thanks for the reply
We're all set re: hreflang tags for the pages. My concern is that I'm using the AIO plugin to customize the meta title & description. So, although the correct version of the page will be listed in SERPs (e.g example.com/fr/ for French users), the link preview will still display the English meta info.
Am I missing something here?
Thanks!
Jon
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Hi Jon
I am with Joseph here - I use Yoast as well.
Just make sure that if you have multi-language version fo pages that you specify the hreflang tag on each.
https://moz.com/learn/seo/hreflang-tag
Regards
Nigel
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Hello there,
I am using Yoast and there's the option to have translated version of metas with Yoast, I have never use AIO, but I did find this document from WPML maybe you can check it out and see if it answered your question?
https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/translating-all-in-one-seo/
Regards,
Joseph Yap
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