Maintenance after translation

Incremental Translation Workflow

Track the known translated state of published pages, isolate new, changed, failed, or front-end-unconfirmed identities, and translate later updates without rebuilding every completed language cell.

Use the right workflow

Incremental maintains existing translation state.

Incremental is a Premium maintenance workflow. It is not a shortcut for an untranslated page or language. The system needs a trustworthy completed state before it can identify only the work that remains.

Use it for

Edited translated pages

Reopen only the affected identities after the English page changes while protecting cells already known to be complete.

It stores

Compact state, not duplicate copy

StagLingo stores current English fingerprints plus per-language completion and retry bits—not full source text, translations, or permanent revision history.

It exports

Only pending identities

New, changed, missing, failed, or front-end-unconfirmed cells are exported for selected languages. Completed cells use /.

Do not use it for

A first translation

If a page or language has never been translated, begin with the normal manual or automatic translation workflow.

Do not assume

A save always means a change

A save marks tracked work for scanning. If the resulting English identities are unchanged, the later scan can return the page to a clean state.

Keep separate

Page-owned and shared content

Incremental focuses on current-page content. Global templates, navigation, and rotating shared components require a regular full Export.

Need a first translation? Use the Manual Two-Round Translation Workflow or Automatic Translation and AI Models before configuring Incremental.
Two valid starting states

Initialize from what is actually translated.

The correct setup depends on whether the current site is already fully translated in the languages you select. Do not treat these two routes as interchangeable.

Existing translated site

Accept one completed baseline

Use this route only when every currently scanned identity is already translated in each selected language.

  • Refresh the site inventory.
  • Wait until its status is Complete.
  • Select only genuinely complete languages.
  • Confirm the baseline statement.
  • Use the scanned site as the completed baseline once.
New or partially translated site

Establish completion through Import

Let inventory finish, but do not baseline pages or languages with missing translations.

  • Complete a normal protected Export.
  • Translate and review the resulting package.
  • Import the reviewed ZIP through StagLingo.
  • Let successful storage read-back mark exact identities complete.
  • Use Incremental only for later changes.
Baseline does not translate, inspect, or validate anything.

It declares every currently scanned identity complete in the selected languages. A false baseline can suppress work that is still missing. Never baseline a language or page simply to make the Dirty count disappear.

Automatic source inventory

Let StagLingo discover the current site.

Open Tools → StagLingo → Incremental. The inventory discovers published posts, pages, and public custom content in resumable background batches of 10 items.

  1. 01

    Select the target languages you want Incremental to track.

  2. 02

    Select Refresh site inventory to start or restart discovery.

  3. 03

    Wait until the progress card reports Complete. Review any item that needs attention.

  4. 04

    If the whole scanned site is already translated, tick the confirmation and select Use scanned site as completed baseline.

  5. 05

    For a translated subset, open the specific-URL controls and use Baseline entered pages only for that verified subset.

  6. 06

    Use Scan entered pages when you only need refreshed fingerprints and do not want to declare them translated.

StagLingo Incremental screen showing site inventory, baseline, scan, and pending export controls
Rescan is not baseline. Rescan next 100 tracked pages refreshes the current English identities for a bounded batch; it does not mark those identities translated. Full-site baseline remains unavailable until the automatic inventory is complete.
Normal daily maintenance

Save, scan, export, and complete only the changed work.

After a trustworthy completed state exists, StagLingo turns ordinary source updates into a small maintenance queue. The page remains dirty only where a selected language still needs attention.

01

Edit and save English

A published tracked post is marked for scanning. Newly published public content is added to tracking for configured target languages.

02

Allow the delayed scan

The scan is scheduled after the save so Elementor, metadata, and caches can settle. A merely unchanged save can become clean again.

03

Export the pending batch

Choose the next dirty batch or specific pages, select languages, and export only identities still pending for those selections.

04

Review and import

Process the package, import the returned ZIP, and let protected write plus exact storage read-back update completion state.

What counts as current-page tracked content: page body, title, excerpt, breadcrumb, post meta, table of contents, current-page image ALT and title text, SEO title, SEO description, social metadata, and the URL slug when the required TranslatePress slug integration is available.
StagLingo Import screen used to validate and write a reviewed incremental translation package
Incremental package

Keep completed cells protected through the full round trip.

Under Export pending changes, the default scope is the next dirty batch of up to 100 tracked pages. You can instead enter specific page URLs or published content IDs.

  1. 01

    Choose Next dirty batch or Specific pages.

  2. 02

    Select only the target languages required for this maintenance round.

  3. 03

    Keep AI Work Package ZIP unless you deliberately need a standard CSV layout.

  4. 04

    Process the complete package with the reusable translation Skill. Do not replace / cells.

  5. 05

    Upload the reviewed ZIP through Import and allow validation, backup, transactional write, and exact read-back to finish.

  6. 06

    Verify the actual target-language page after relevant cache clearing.

A protected import marks an exact tracked identity complete only after the transactional database write and storage read-back succeed. A final front-end visibility failure keeps the affected identity queued for retry instead of silently treating it as finished.
Read the dashboard

Use each number as a queue signal, not a quality score.

The Incremental summary describes tracking and completion state. It does not judge whether a human translation is linguistically excellent or whether an unverified baseline was truthful.

Inventory Tracked pages

Published pages currently known to the Incremental inventory.

Pending work Dirty pages

Pages that may contain incomplete or retrying identities for at least one selected language.

Current structure Source identities

Active page-owned translation units found in the latest successful scans.

Verification Frontend retry items

Conservative flags retained after a live-page check could not confirm an imported item.

If an imported row passed storage read-back but the immediate front-end request could not confirm visibility, inspect the real translated URL after clearing relevant caches. Dynamic, conditional, personalized, or JavaScript-rendered content may require direct verification. Continue with Review Export and Live-Page Verification.
Know the boundary

Use Incremental for page-owned change, full Export for shared change.

Navigation or Elementor template saves conservatively mark tracked pages dirty, but Incremental remains page-owned. A dirty marker does not make the current page extraction a complete inventory of every global component.

Suitable for Incremental

Use the pending package when the change belongs to the current page and can be identified through its current rendered source.

  • Article or landing-page body changes
  • Current page title, excerpt, metadata, and TOC
  • Current-page image ALT or title changes
  • SEO fields and supported page slug updates
  • Exact identities left for verified front-end retry

Use a regular full Export

Choose the complete export workflow when a broadly reused or rotating component changes across many pages.

  • Global header or footer copy
  • Navigation menus and reusable templates
  • Shared widgets and site-wide blocks
  • Rotating or related-post cards
  • Another component whose ownership is not confined to one page
Maintenance action: Clean inactive fingerprints removes inactive fingerprint rows older than 90 days. It does not delete WordPress content or TranslatePress translations and is not required for ordinary daily exports.