Answers.Body: <p>You could build a plugin that loops thru all the entries and creates a new entry programmatically, the only difference in the new entry would be the locale. Look at this: <a href="https://craftcms.com/classreference/services/EntriesService#saveEntry-detail" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://craftcms.com/classreference/services/EntriesService#saveEntry-detail</a>, you would include $entry->locale = 'fr_us'; or whatever the shortname/handle of that locale is.</p>
  
  <p>Or export the entries and import them, and setting the locale to french using something like: <a href="https://github.com/engram-design/FeedMe" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/engram-design/FeedMe</a></p>
  
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Answers.Text: FeedMe is the way to go with this! I just imported around 500+ entries in to a newly created locale. Worked a treat and saved doing it manually ;)
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Body: <p>I am building a bilingual website using Craft CMS. The english entries are completed and I am now in the process of doing translating the content to french. I would like to know if there is a way clone the english entries to the french entries so I can just change fields that are different?</p>
  
Tags: <localization>
Title: Cloning content between locales
ThreadText: # Cloning content between locales
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2017-04-26)
  
  I am building a bilingual website using Craft CMS. The english entries are completed and I am now in the process of doing translating the content to french. I would like to know if there is a way clone the english entries to the french entries so I can just change fields that are different?
  
  **Tags:** localization
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2017-04-26. Score: 2
  
  You could build a plugin that loops thru all the entries and creates a new entry programmatically, the only difference in the new entry would be the locale. Look at this: <https://craftcms.com/classreference/services/EntriesService#saveEntry-detail>, you would include $entry->locale = 'fr\_us'; or whatever the shortname/handle of that locale is.
  
  Or export the entries and import them, and setting the locale to french using something like: <https://github.com/engram-design/FeedMe>
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: FeedMe is the way to go with this! I just imported around 500+ entries in to a newly created locale. Worked a treat and saved doing it manually ;)  
  
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