Broken links in navigation menu

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Last updated by justusR 2 weeks, 6 days ago.

Assisted by: Noman.

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January 7, 2026 at 4:28 pm #17710211
justusR	When translating the header including the menu's, I noticed that even though the URL's are correctly translated (based on the info in ATE), the links are seemingly random: some menu items point to page A instead B, then three of them to page C etc. Where can I change the URL's the navigation/menu items point to? I tried of course to translate exactly those (Translation Dashboard -> Navigation Menus) but the URLs are all OK there. The front-end however has different links.
January 7, 2026 at 6:29 pm #17710553
justusR	I noticed that WPML only "sees" part of the menu I want to create. See images. Menu has 14 items, ATE only reports 6. What I already tried: - complete reset of WPML (following the steps at https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/deleting-languages-and-plugin-data-by-doing-a-wpml-reset-on-your-site/ including deleteing translations) -> at which point to my surprise I noticed translations are still "cached", because when I translate the menu, the translations are already there. - flush cache incl. CDN Also noticed that URLs are not shown in ATE, even though "Which types of links should appear in the editor?" is set to "Show all links". Only when I enter "http" in the filter, the URLs become visible. When automatically translating a page, many links simply pointed to my contact page - seemingly random. I feel totally not in control of what WPML is doing for our website, and that feels bad.
January 8, 2026 at 12:13 pm #17712710
justusR	Resolved with Paola Mendiburu