Decide what enters the translation workspace
This chapter helps site owners keep POM Translate focused on useful visitor-facing copy. The policy lives at Settings → POM Translate → Content types and is evaluated as WordPress objects are saved.
Begin conservatively. Include the editorial surfaces the site actually publishes, test one representative item, and expand only after the target-language result is correct. This keeps technical values and unused fields out of translators' queues.
Find the right guide
| Goal | Read |
|---|---|
| Learn every default, exception, and boundary on the screen | Content-selection reference |
| Add a portfolio, event, product, or another editable object type | Enable a post type |
| Reduce an object's workload to the fields it displays | Choose title, content, excerpt, and meta |
| Include approved text stored outside the main editor | Control translatable custom fields |
| Stop translating an obsolete or internal object type | Disable a post type |
| Localize a custom classification used in archives or filters | Enable a taxonomy |
| Distinguish a term's visible wording from its route | Understand taxonomy name and description |
| Withdraw a custom classification from the workflow | Disable a taxonomy |
| Translate interface messages supplied by code packages | Keep software strings separate |
| Coordinate a production removal with backups and URL checks | Retire a translation surface safely |
A practical first pass
- Map the words visible on one public template to their WordPress source fields.
- Activate only the owning content surfaces.
- Save the settings, then save the sample source item.
- Review what appears under Translations → Translate contents.
- Complete one target locale and inspect the public page, archive, navigation, and metadata.
Selection is not retroactive. Older items need a later source save before a newly enabled surface appears. Likewise, turning off an entire type is not a deletion command; retained translation data needs a separate, deliberate maintenance decision.