[Resolved] Translating a post is not working as expected

more screenshots that maybe help you reasoning what's going on in here, thanks!

Notice that 5 cateogries are displayed but (4) besides each language, and then it's all mixed up

Hi Laura,

Thanks for the reply, sorry if I was not clear enough.

So, I had first all my categories translated before translating any post using the method you describe.

Once I had that done, all categories and sub categories translated, I selected all the posts and did a DUPLICATE translation via translation management

Now... when I added a new post I noticed that when selecting category and translating it, it was actually creating that duplicate you see right there, even though I didn't want to translate any category... in the past I didn't even have the fields displayed like my screenshot and it worked fine

Now it's like making a mess so when I add a new post and translate it the cateogries get mixed up.

I want to avoid having to go to staging again and deleting all translation and have to re-do everything so I was wondering to see if you could tell based on the screen shots what might be going on... maybe in an update a configuration was changed?

Don't you think it's strange the categories page where you see (4) but there are 5 displayed?

Soemthing's not working as expected so I would appreciate any help

I attach to you the screen from taxonomy translation and notice 2 things:

1) on the Aircraft Categories you can see something's messed up where I see JATO as an English category

2) on the Aircraft cabin sizes everything seems normal, but notice on the Posts > Categories page you can see them mixed up so maybe this clarifies what I am telling you that something's not working well and how the number says (4) but then you see 5 listed with the "Mediano" that appeared out of nowhere in there

Let me know what else can I send you to try to locate the issue, I'll see if I can do a Loom video on staging of how I create and translate a post so you can detect any anomaly

Kr,
AA

Hi Laura,

Thanks for the kind response and glad to hear you are finding some solutions to this.

As a matter of fact, all POST translations are DUPLICATE because I had trouble with them in the past so I had to delete 100% of post translations and re-do it and the quickest way to do that was with the DUPLICATE mode as I find no other way to quickly make all English posts available on Portuguese site (even though still in english, as it's techinal it doesn't matter). So maybe there's something going on there.

Becaue, later on, when I try to edit any of these posts, I got an alert "YOU ARE GOING TO EDIT A DUPLICATE POST AND YOU'LL LOOSE CONNECTION" or something like that, I had to AGREE to go on and edit the post and maybe there it started to duplicate these categories you are referring to.

So... How would be the propper way to do this? I'll have to delete all translations, delete all fake categories, and how should I do those translations and categories for it not to conflict in the future while editing them so it doesn't create duplicated categories?

As I mentioned further up, in the past when I edited a post, I never saw the category field as an option to translate so WPML just used the translated category for it, I wish for this to be the default way to translating posts.

So if you could be so kind of explaining the correct way to do it I could try to restore everything back to normal.

Thanks!
Alejandro

Oh! So there's a bug you think?

Go ahead, I specifically generated this staging for you to work so don't worry if something goes south or breaks as I won't be publishing it... once we find the problem I'll fix it on the production site or make another staging-fix it-publish

If you still need sftp let me know but if you can do it without it I'd prefer as I have to login to server to get staging credentials

thanks
AA

I wasn't working on the staging, I left it all for you... maybe you are experiencing CACHE issues that take time to refresh, I will turn off BREEZE and OBJECT CACHE on staging. In other sites I have issues with CACHE and WPML too.

So... if I understood coorectly, I should delete ALL portuguese translations, just for the POSTS because I can't delete the actual translations on the rest of the site, that took a lot of work to do.

I duplicate all posts again and it should work fine?

I'll try it out and let you know

So... now I created a new staging... I deleted ALL portuguese posts and all taxonomy translations

Went to TAXONOMY TRANSLATIONS and re-translated all of them

Next step would be to translate - duplicate all posts.... which would be the propper way to do that all at once? I need to translate only POSTS

Once I do that I can go to edit one and see if the error still replicates or if this solved it...

Please let me know how can I bulk translate all posts so I don't mess up

Thanks
Alejandro