Adding a new Locale doesn't give a publishing or machine translation option

[ThinksFast]

Hi, I am rebuilding a website using wagtail, with the ultimate goal of adding localized content.

But I've noticed that when I want to add a new language/locale, there is no option to control the content publishing status. I can choose to mirror another language, or I can build the page tree from scratch.

If I mirror, the mirroring honors the publishing status of whatever language I choose to mirror from.

This means I'll have a bunch of new pages go live, before the text is translated.

For example, I want to add Spanish to an existing website. I choose to mirror English. All the Spanish pages will be instantly published, and will use the English content. This is a bad experience for users, and for SEO/marketing purposes.

I think a more intentional publishing/translation strategy here would really helpful.

Options to:

• set default publishing status for newly mirrored content
• machine translate all pages/branches of the existing page tree

I hope all this makes sense. I am new to Django/Wagtail, so if I missed something, apologies in advance.

[zerolab]

@ThinksFast does https://wagtail-localize.org/stable/how-to/installation/#saving-new-translations-as-drafts not work for your use case?

[ThinksFast]

@zerolab thanks for the pointer, I somehow missed that setting in the docs. But it does not seem to work for me. I added this to my base.py settings file:

WAGTAILLOCALIZE_SYNC_LIVE_STATUS_ON_TRANSLATE = False

And when I add a new locale, I set it to mirror English and all pages in the new locale are still set to Live by default.

This is the behavior I'm seeing with Pages. But when I add a translation for a snippet... my example is a menu system... the snippet content is set to Draft by default.

[ThinksFast]

I am also seeing this behavior when I add a new page in English. The page gets mirrored in other languages and the status is still set to Live by default.

[ThinksFast]

@zerolab can you confirm the expected behavior with WAGTAILLOCALIZE_SYNC_LIVE_STATUS_ON_TRANSLATE? Are only certain user flows supported?

Here is what I have observed so far:

• I have a website published in English
• In Settings -> Locales, I can add a new language. For example, Italian.
• There is no option to set publishing status at this point, all articles from English are mirrored to Italian and published to Live (maybe this actually mirrors the publishing status, but in English, all my articles are live so all Italian pages are published to Live)
• When I navigate to the Italian language Homepage in Wagtail admin, it shows me a screen that says "Translate this page" with an option to include all pages in the sub-tree
• Once I complete this step, I am seeing articles with a mix of Draft and Live + Draft status. I'm not sure why I am seeing mix of status, and I'm not sure what Live + Draft means, but I can do more testing if that helps

[ThinksFast]

@zerolab I've opened a PR that adds the functionality I need. Can you or another maintainer review it when you have a moment?

#879

[ThinksFast]

@zerolab I saw the last PR failed to merge. I think I fixed all the issues. I opened a new pull request, please check this one: #883