Use machine translations of article contents with DeepL

purple hub summary this article guides you on how to use the machine translation feature in purple hub to translate your content if this feature is enabled, you can translate individual articles, or bulk translate multiple articles into one or more languages simultaneously powered by the deepl api, this feature allows you to generate language variants of your original articles within purple hub with just a single click visit the external link to the deepl website to learn which languages are available in deepl https //developers deepl com/docs/resources/supported languages https //developers deepl com/docs/resources/supported languages important note on machine translation in purple hub machine translation is a helpful tool, but it’s not always perfect services like google translate and deepl work quickly, but they can sometimes have trouble with complex content like links, html tags, or special characters such as quotation marks (« ») key points for our customers translations may not be perfect translations might be less accurate when handling content with links, html, or specific writing styles like special characters text may need manual edits after using machine translation, double check and fix any mistakes, especially for content with complex formatting these issues are ordinary for machine translation tools we recommend using them as a starting point and reviewing the text to ensure it’s correct, especially with tricky formats preconditions have set up machine translations docid\ q0ylpr0t8p8ytknn80zit have an editor or managing editor role have articles created in your purple hub which you want to translate translate individual articles languages sidebar in article view (1) flag icon when opening an article in purple hub, which you have already created, you will find a flag icon by clicking on the icon, the languages menu opens in the right hand side bar (2) the language menu in the right sidebar of the article view lists all the translation options available for translating your article one at a time if you prefer to translate multiple articles at once, switch to the article overview, where you can perform bulk translations on all your articles (3) original language of you article indicates the original language of the article which you have currently open please ensure that the language matches your source text for the translation feature to work properly you can change the language by selecting it from the list in the dropdown (4) translations only the flags for the languages you have configured in your polylang setup, are listed below if there is already a headline next to a language flag displayed, this means, that the translations already exists for that language to add more languages, you will need a super admin role to configure them in the plugin settings (5) deepl icon to activate the option for using deepl for machine translation, click on the deepl logo once activated, it will turn blue (6) duplicate content activating this button allows you to duplicate your article in purple hub, instead of adding it as language variant when you create a duplicate of your article with this option enabled, the duplicated article will be accessible by clicking on edit (7) or from the post overview (7) edit clicking on this icon next to a flag, links you directly to the variant of the article to edit it (8) sync if you make changes to the article you are currently viewing, you can sync these updates to a previous translation, ensuring it reflects the latest content (9) title of your language version use this field to create or edit the title of the language variant for the selected language (10) plus icon by clicking on the plus icon, a new language variant of your article will be created in the selected language in case the duplicate content (6) option is enabled, there will be a duplicate of your article created the difference between a language variant and a duplicate of an article a language variant is a translated version of your original article, with the ability to synchronise changes between variants in the article overview, the original article and its variants are grouped together (see screenshot below) a duplicate , on the other hand, is an independent translated copy of your original article, synchronised only at the time of duplication and displayed separately in the article index language variants of an article in the post overview bulk translate multiple articles bulk actions in the post overview if you navigate to purple hub > articles, in the post overview you can select one or more articles from the list by checking the check box next to the item(s) on the left doing this will open the bulk options and display a button 'translate' bulk translate options in post overview the bulk translate menu will give you the following options for the translation to the previously set up languages (via definition within the polylang plugin) translate with with deepl creates a translated language variant of your selected article copy originale items to selected languages creates a translated duplicate of your selected article synchronise original items with translation in selected language if you just made changes to the article you have currently selected, you can sync these updates to a previous translation, ensuring it reflects the latest content to learn more about the difference between language variants and duplicates , read the blue light box above automatic transformations based on your configuration, a number of different transformations might get applied to the resulting article internal links will get removed see set up machine translations docid\ q0ylpr0t8p8ytknn80zit a disclaimer text / block will be added to the bottom of the article see add automatic disclaimers to machine translated content docid\ y l c6biqphyqzp6sxrzb the quote style will be adjusted to the configured style of the target language see configure quote style in purple hub docid\ 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