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WPML

Starter License Extension

The WPML extension for the Dealer Management System (DMS) plugin enables full multilingual support, allowing you to translate all custom post types, categories, and values into multiple languages. By integrating with the WPML (WordPress Multilingual Plugin), this extension ensures that your vehicle listings and related content are accessible to a global audience. With WPML's powerful translation management tools, you can easily localize your inventory, making it easier for international customers to browse and understand your listings.

This documentation will guide you through the setup, configuration, and best practices for using the WPML Integration extension to expand your dealership's reach.

Requirements

Requirement Value
DMS version 1.0.0 or newer
License Starter or higher
WPML The WPML plugin, active, with String Translation installed

WPML's String Translation module is not optional here. DMS names — types, categories, terms, badges, and global option labels — are registered as WPML strings, not as posts, so String Translation is where all of them are translated.

How it works

DMS data is registered with WPML as strings, grouped into domains:

DMS data WPML domain
Listing types, their categories, terms, and badges dms-type-{type id} — one domain per listing type
Global DMS options dms-global-options

Registration happens in two ways:

  • Automatically, as you work. Adding a type, category, term, or badge registers it with WPML immediately. Renaming one re-registers the new text and removes the old string. Deleting one removes its strings.
  • On demand, with a scan. Data that already existed before the extension was activated has never been through that flow, so it is registered by running a scan. See Scanning Terms.

Once registered, translate the strings in WPML, and DMS serves the translated values on the front end automatically.

Edit DMS values in your default language only

DMS settings and category pages can only be edited from the site's default language. Opening them in another language redirects you back to the default and shows a notice explaining why. Translations belong in WPML, not in the DMS fields. See Translating.

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