I have problems with internal links not being "translated". I just added a translation of a page into English and the links in the body segment (long description) are just copied, not translated. How am I supposed to get all internal links automatically "translated" into the corresponding link in the specific language (so that they lead to the corresponding English page in this case)? All I can find in the documentation is that this should happen automatically.
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
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I have tried to recreate this issue by linking a translated product from another product's product description and its short description, and I can not confirm the issue.
The links do not need to be translated inside the Advanced Translation Editor. WPML will adjust them automatically if the linked product is translated and the translation is published.
Hello
I have now tried once again to re-translate a page from Swedish to English, where there is a faulty internal link:
Swedish: hidden link
English: hidden link
In the translated page (English) there is still a link that leads to the Swedish page: hidden link
I have tried to change a small text in the Swedish page, and then updated the Swedish page, then updated the translation, and finally clicked on the Finish button in the translation editor.
After this and after clearing all cache, refreshing the page etc the link still leads to the Swedish page: hidden link
There are about 150 English pages with internal links that only leads to the corresponding Swedish page. Please see the attached screen dumps.
How can I fix this without manually going over each page and actually "translate" the links? Because WPML is not taking care of this automatically, even if there is a message that states that it will when looking at the links in the translation editor.
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Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
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I realized that if I search for "adapter" on the original Swedish page, it will only show me English products to select as a link source. This is unexpected.
The issue:
1) First, in Settings > Permalinks, I would use English by default for Product category base and Product tag base.
Make sure that the Product Base is assigned to Swedish, as this is your site's default language.
Example: /produkter/%product_cat%/
Translate the Product Base at WooCommerce > WCML > Store URLs.
2) You have set Product Categories in WPML > Settings > Taxonomies Translation to "Translatable use translation if available or fallback to default language".
Please use "Translatable only show translated items" and make sure that all product categories are translated.
Next, you translate Product Categories at WPML > Taxonomy Translation. Select "Product categories".
In the bottom section, under "Translations of taxonomy Category labels and slug" update the translations.
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Now, if you link an internal product, the WordPress Editor will make sure to detect the link correctly in each language.
I am not sure I understand step one...
For Swedish pages we need the whole slug to be in Swedish, like this for product categories (where /produkter/ is used for Swedish product categories): hidden link
And like this for product pages: hidden link
(where /produkt/ is used for Swedish single product pages)
And for English pages we need the whole slug to be in English: hidden link
(where /products/ is used for product categories) hidden link
(where /product/ is used for single product pages)
Do you mean to say that with this approach internal links will not point the corresponding translated page?
I have discovered another thing. WPML seems to not handle redirects. Internal links that points to another page without being redirected, is handled correctly by WPML and such links points to the corresponding translated page! So the problem seems to be redirects....
I will be back in office on Tuesday, and will then test to change the links, so that they are not being redirected and then see if it works better.
