Multilingual: WPML and Polylang
You can translate jobs, companies, resumes, job taxonomies, email subjects and email bodies with WPML or Polylang. The plugin ships a wpml-config.xml file, so you do not need to register anything by hand.
What you can translate
Section titled “What you can translate”| Content | Translatable |
|---|---|
Jobs (wcb_job) |
Yes |
Companies (wcb_company) |
Yes |
Resumes (wcb_resume) |
Yes |
Applications (wcb_application) |
No |
Boards (wcb_board) |
No |
| Job categories, job types, tags, locations, experience levels | Yes |
| Email sender name, sender email, subjects, bodies and footer text | Yes, as admin texts |
| Plugin interface strings | Yes, through .po / .mo files |
The Pro plugin adds no post types or taxonomies of its own. It only adds its own settings and meta to the same config.
Set up WPML
Section titled “Set up WPML”- Activate WPML and WP Career Board. WPML reads
wpml-config.xmlfrom the plugin folder. - Go to WPML > Settings and open the post type translation section.
- Confirm Jobs, Companies and Resumes are set as translatable.
- Open WPML > Taxonomy Translation to translate the five job taxonomies.
Set up Polylang
Section titled “Set up Polylang”Polylang reads the same wpml-config.xml. Open the Polylang settings, go to the custom post types and taxonomies section, and confirm the job board post types and taxonomies are ticked. Save.
Translate plugin strings
Section titled “Translate plugin strings”The template file is languages/wp-career-board.pot. You can:
- Put a translated
.po/.mopair inwp-content/languages/plugins/. - Use Loco Translate, WPML String Translation or Polylang string translation.
Email language
Section titled “Email language”Each email is sent in the recipient’s own language, taken from the language set on their user profile.