<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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2017-10-13T09:59:26.573Z
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 ;)
Jason Mayo
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Brad
<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>

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Cloning content between locales
# 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?

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## 1 answers

### 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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