Problem: The client was experiencing issues with the language switcher on their website, where clicking on the language switcher did not navigate to the correct translated product category pages but redirected to the main category page instead. Solution: We discovered that the issue was due to the use of duplicate slugs for the Shop page, Product base, and Product category base. To resolve this, we made the following changes: - Changed the Shop page slug to 'shop'. - Changed the Product category base to 'product-category'. - Set the Product base to '/catalogue/%product_cat%/'. After these adjustments, the language switcher correctly reflected the translated URLs. We also translated these changes into French and German. It is crucial to use unique slugs to avoid similar issues. Additionally, if slugs are changed, it is necessary to resave permalinks and flush all caches.
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