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Last updated by Eran Helzer 1 year, 6 months ago.

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July 27, 2023 at 6:53 pm #14113187

jamesG-38

I am trying to:

ADOPT ELEMENTOR HEADER CHANGES THAT ARE TRANSLATED BUT DO NOT SHOW UP

Link to a page where the issue can be seen:

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I expected to see:

hidden link header design but in IT,

Instead, I got:

instead I received the old header design with no visual change.

Refer images showing this clearly and the fact I made translations on the Elementor header object.

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July 28, 2023 at 8:57 am #14115561

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Hi,

From the screenshot of the translation status, it looks like it is "In Progress".

Let's try to do the following:
- Make a minor change to the original Header
- Update it's translation, making sure to complete them

If you can also provide screenshots of the translation pages that would help me understand the issue.

Finally, from the debug information you supplied I can see that your MySQL version is lower than WPML's minimum requirement of 5.6. I strongly recommend you reach out to your provider and ask him to upgrade this to 5.6+.
You can see all of WPML's minimum requirements here:
https://wpml.org/home/minimum-requirements/

July 28, 2023 at 11:24 am #14116641

jamesG-38

Re MySQL version, I just don't understand that and have provided feedback about that on another ticket with a title CPU 100% (or similar). For me that is an inccuracy in the debug info.

Thanks for the other comments, I will look at it later.

July 28, 2023 at 11:33 am #14116835

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

It may be an inaccuracy, although that is unlikely.
This is something that you provider should take care of, not you, I am sure that if you ask him "Please upgrade my MySQL server to 5.6+", he will understand.

After you try out what I suggested, please update me so we know how to proceed.

July 28, 2023 at 12:27 pm #14117107

jamesG-38

Hi, thanks. I checked with Cloudways and made them check on the command line, not the front end like myself. The confirmed we are running Maria DB 10.4 for sissoo.com, so as shown they want WPML to check on your side why we get the wrong value in the debug info. Okay?

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July 28, 2023 at 3:39 pm #14118699

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Yes, looks like it is.

Can you please upload the debug information one more time, just so we are sure it is the most up-to-date?

Also, if I could have admin access to also take a look for myself, and to pass on to the development team if needed, that would help.

I have set your next reply to be private so you can share credentials there.
Remember that it is always better to create a new admin user for me, then when we are done you can delete it.

July 29, 2023 at 5:51 am #14120501

jamesG-38

PS I am not sure where to load the debug info again. Can you just have a look when you are on the system?

July 30, 2023 at 1:03 pm #14122827

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Regarding the menu, I couldn't find where it is created.
Can you direct me to the unsynched menu editor in the original language?

Also, I may need to perform some troubleshooting steps.
Please make sure to have a working backup of your site before proceeding.

July 30, 2023 at 7:01 pm #14123247

jamesG-38

Hi Eran, the HEADER is found within Elementor's templates theme builder (refer attached highlighting this). It is named "Header home (with lang switch)" and from there you can switch to table view (refer attached highlighting this) and then you can see the view showing languages and translation status. Clear now?

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July 31, 2023 at 6:15 am #14124009

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Perfectly, thank you.

I searched for that (Header home (with lang switch)) template in the WPML -> Translation Management tab, and the translations were not complete.
To make sure that it works correctly, I finished the French translation, and the header is now correct.

Please take a look at the screenshot and the French page, and update me if something is still missing.
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July 31, 2023 at 11:53 am #14126747

jamesG-38

Good news. Before we proceed with other languages can you help me understand the other bits that are still not translated? Refer attached. I have re highlighted those things in the header still outstanding I think .

Plus one thing on the homepage itself.

Obviously I am new to all this, but if I were to understand this example and how to fix it, then I guess I should be right for most other scenarios (I hope).

Thanks in advance, James

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July 31, 2023 at 12:43 pm #14127357

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Yes, of course.

Let's go one by one:
- The "LIST YOUR STORE FR" is just the value I used, to make sure that the header translated correctly. You can send the header template to translation again and update that value. Screenshot attached - 1.png
- The items in the menu that are links to pages - those are the titles of the pages. For example, the "Contact" page title is the same in French, so the menu will also be "Contact". If you updated the title of the French page that would change
- The items that are custom links, those can be translated from the WPML -> String Translation tab. However, please use the WPML -> WP Menus Sync in order to translate menus, as that handles all the menu creation and item creation for you
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-menus/#option-3-automatic-menus-sync-by-wpml
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-menus/#translating-custom-links
- Other strings that are not added directly to pages or are not page titles, for example the "Services" in the menu and the "I'm looking for" can be translated using WPML -> String Translation. Please make sure you read our documentation, it is very detailed and designed for new clients:
https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/

I believe this covers all of the untranslated strings.

Please try implementing these steps to start translating the untranslated strings, and if you need any help after that or assistance implementing these steps, please reply here.

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July 31, 2023 at 1:19 pm #14127693

jamesG-38

Hi Eran, troubling and urgent is that the header "Header home (with lang switch)" and footer for the homepage seemed to have disappeared since sometime yesterday. Refer attached.

When I look at the history it seems WPML was on it. Do you have any idea how this could happen?

The word "Discover." was also changed to "Discoverd." which is how we first noticed this issue.

Obviously it is urgent that this is recovered.

BR; James

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July 31, 2023 at 1:26 pm #14127813

Eran Helzer
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Hebrew (עברית )

Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+02:00)

Weird.

The issue seems to occur only when signed in. I will try to see why this is happening, perhaps something related to caching.

Please confirm that you have a backup, as I also want to check if some other plugin, perhaps the debug plugin, is related.

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July 31, 2023 at 1:33 pm #14127863

jamesG-38

I do have backups (as shown attached), however that is the last thing I want to do. Unless you have a silver bullet to recover this, I am okay to recover it myself I think as the header is complex - it has 3 sections as shown attached - one for logged on, logged off and mobile.

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