WPML translate option not showing for custom post types

Question

I have wpml configured on my website. For default posts it shows the translate options as you can see in the image below.

Bur for custom post type it is not showing the translate option.

I did google to find some solution and the posts says that register_post_type might have some issue.

My code:

// Register Custom Post Type
function werk_post_type() {

    $labels = array(
        'name'                  => _x( 'Post Types', 'Post Type General Name', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'singular_name'         => _x( 'werk', 'Post Type Singular Name', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'menu_name'             => __( 'Werk', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'name_admin_bar'        => __( 'Werk', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'archives'              => __( 'Item Archives', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'parent_item_colon'     => __( 'Parent Item:', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'all_items'             => __( 'All Items', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'add_new_item'          => __( 'Add New Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'add_new'               => __( 'Add New', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'new_item'              => __( 'New Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'edit_item'             => __( 'Edit Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'update_item'           => __( 'Update Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'view_item'             => __( 'View Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'search_items'          => __( 'Search Item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'not_found'             => __( 'Not found', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'not_found_in_trash'    => __( 'Not found in Trash', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'featured_image'        => __( 'Featured Image', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'set_featured_image'    => __( 'Set featured image', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'remove_featured_image' => __( 'Remove featured image', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'use_featured_image'    => __( 'Use as featured image', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'insert_into_item'      => __( 'Insert into item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'uploaded_to_this_item' => __( 'Uploaded to this item', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'items_list'            => __( 'Items list', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'items_list_navigation' => __( 'Items list navigation', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'filter_items_list'     => __( 'Filter items list', 'twentysixteen' ),
    );
    $args = array(
        'label'                 => __( 'werk', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'description'           => __( 'Post Type Description', 'twentysixteen' ),
        'labels'                => $labels,
        'supports'              => array( 'title', 'editor', 'excerpt', 'thumbnail', 'custom-fields', 'page-attributes', ),
        'taxonomies'            => array( 'category', 'post_tag' ),
        'hierarchical'          => false,
        'public'                => true,
        'show_ui'               => true,
        'show_in_menu'          => true,
        'menu_position'         => 5,
        'show_in_admin_bar'     => true,
        'show_in_nav_menus'     => true,
        'can_export'            => true,
        'has_archive'           => true,        
        'exclude_from_search'   => false,
        'publicly_queryable'    => true,
        'capability_type'       => 'page',
    );
    register_post_type( 'werk', $args );

}
add_action( 'init', 'werk_post_type', 0 );

Can someone help me out by pointing out what might be the issue here. Thanks for your time.

sticksu sticksu · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-29T12:39:47

When editing on of your work post type entries, at the bottom of the page you should have a box called Multilingual Content Setup, which contains a checkbox: Make 'Work' translatable. Check that checkbox and hit Apply. Then you should be able to create translations for each work entry.

WPML translate option not showing for custom post types

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