Translating only the post title (to obtain URLs for internal links)

There are situations when we may need to only replace a certain part of the entity (for custom posts, tags, categories, media), and not everything.

For instance, that's the case if we want to replace the internal link URLs.

If you are translating all existing content on your site, you will need all the translated entries created first (with or without the content) to replace their URLs in internal links.

It then makes sense to execute a first pass of Gato Translate to translate only the post title and slug, to obtain the translated URL. During this first pass, there is no need to translate the post content or meta, hence we can disable this to avoid consuming API credits.

To do this, go to Translation Parts in the plugin Settings, and select Properties only.

Selecting only the post title and slug for translation

Then, we execute a second pass of Gato Translate to translate the remaining data: Unselect Properties (to avoid translating the slug again and change its URL), and select Content and Meta.

Finally, revert the selection to all parts to translate everything from then on.