WPML Multilingual CMS v5.1.0 Plugin

What’s New (Changelog) in WPML Multilingual CMS v5.1.0

What’s new in WPML v5.1
WPML v5.1 lets Translate Everything Automatically run on any translation engine, bills automatic translation in words, and fixes issues reported on 5.0, including on multisite networks, Blog accounts and large stores.

Translate Everything Automatically on any engine

• Translate Everything Automatically now works with DeepL, Google Translate and Microsoft Translator as well as PTC; the engine decides the price, pay once per page with PTC or per word with the other engines, and the Translation Dashboard shows the engine and its pricing before you turn it on.
• A site running Translate Everything Automatically on another engine can switch to PTC in place from the Translation Dashboard, without turning translation off; the switch applies to new and changed content.
• On PTC without a site description, the Translate Everything Automatically box stays on screen with its start button disabled until you add the description, and adding it enables the button without a reload.
• WPML → Settings → AI Translation shows one recommendation per engine, and the WPML 5 upgrade notice no longer asks for PTC before Translate Everything Automatically can be turned on.

Words instead of credits

• Automatic translation is billed and shown in words everywhere: the AI Translation billing page in WPML, the words page on your wpml.org account, and the estimates on the Translation Dashboard.
• Word counts for strings and string packages now match what the bill counts, and stored counts are recalculated on update.
• When the billing service cannot be reached, WPML says so instead of showing a zero balance, and the Settings page says which setting was not saved.

Updating WPML and registering your site

• The “WPML Update is Incomplete” notice names the plugins that stopped loading and links to Activate & Update.
• Notices about a missing site key, a configuration error or missing requirements are dismissed per administrator instead of for the whole site, and the site-key notice comes back on Activate & Update.
• Upgrading a Blog account to CMS no longer causes a fatal error on the first load of Translations.
• Switching the update channel on Plugins → Add New → Commercial refreshes the list and installs nothing by itself.
• Database updates that were interrupted are resumed instead of staying stuck, and the update no longer flushes the object cache on every front-end request.

Translation Dashboard, jobs and editors

• Step 2 “Duplicate” no longer replaces an existing translation silently; the Translation Dashboard says what it skipped.
• Saving a translated post in the WordPress editor keeps its Advanced Translation Editor job, so opening the editor again creates no replacement job and does not rewind the status.
• Translation Jobs offers “Edit translation” on completed post jobs, and the spinner stays until the editor opens.
• A stale translation whose post no longer exists is removed when its review link is built and shows as not translated.
• Two saves of the same post at the same time no longer leave a translation job without its content.
• When the translation service cannot be reached, Retry says so in the dialog instead of staying silent, and a delivery refused during an outage is accepted once the service is back.
• New translators default to the Contributor role and translation managers to Editor.
• After a site moves to a new address and starts fresh with automatic translation, the translation jobs of the old address are cancelled instead of being delivered to the new site.
• The setup wizard no longer builds a word count it never shows, so it is lighter on large sites, and its address sends an already configured site to the Translation Dashboard.
• “Switch to PTC instead” opens its window centred.

Languages, URLs and links

• Changing the default language in domain-per-language mode keeps a domain for the language that stops being the default.
• A language you are removing can no longer be set as the default in the same save.
• Trashing a translation of the static front page no longer resets Settings → Reading, and that language’s home shows the default-language page instead of a 404.
• After the root page is deleted, the URL format section saves again and a notice tells every translation manager once.
• Converted internal links to a draft page no longer lead to a 404, and a link to a deleted page is hidden only when the page is shown, never saved into the content.
• The language folder stays out of .htaccess, and REST URLs on plain permalinks with languages in directories keep working.
• Terms of a taxonomy whose name is only digits are handled like any other taxonomy: Translate Everything Automatically translates them, so they use words, they appear in the Translation Dashboard, and they follow duplication, hierarchy sync, Sticky Links and “display as translated” counts.

Faster on large sites

• Non-translatable taxonomies no longer run one count query per term on every request; their term counts are shown across all languages, as in WPML 4.9, until a language-aware count returns in a later release.
• The taxonomy-label check runs one query for all taxonomies instead of two per taxonomy on every admin page.
• The author-language query with “display as translated” is fast again for authors with many posts.
• Admin pages load less CSS, and the browser language redirect script is 6 KB instead of 172 KB.

Support and repair tools

• Each repair tool has its own Support page, and a tool whose plugin is not installed shows an install notice with a link to Activate & Update.
• The repair tools work for a user with the WPML support capability, not only for administrators.
• “Assign status to duplicates” and “Remove ghost entries” no longer mark a genuine translation as a duplicate or delete the group’s original.
• The Support pages read the server’s answer before saying “Done”, and the post type repair reports the changes the database refused.
• Running the activation again keeps the element type column at its full width.
• The XML configuration screen reads “Never” when the configuration index was never fetched.
• System information, the debug report and the support report show the site key masked.

Page builders and images in translations

• WPML’s own page builder integration now loads even when the old standalone WPML Page Builders plugin is still active, so its fixes reach those sites and you can deactivate the standalone plugin.
• Images referenced by a relative URL, or linked from an image, are replaced by their translations in Divi, Enfold and block backgrounds.
• Clearing the Elementor cache after a translation touches only the translated template’s CSS.
• No page builder warning appears for a translation made in the WordPress editor with no open job.
• Elementor custom fonts load on secondary-language domains without a browser error.

Also in this release

• The Translate Everything Automatically offer for new content types closes after “Review cost and include”.
• The custom language dialog can be closed with Escape or a click outside it, and the setup wizard puts the focus on each step.
• Resetting WPML can no longer re-create part of its settings halfway through the reset.

Security

• This release includes security hardening.