Numerical category slugs can possibly lead to redirection loop

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Resolved in: 4.2.7

Overview of the issue

If you have a category that has a slug that consists entirely of numeric characters this can lead to a redirection loop.

For example, http://example.com/category/1234/ might do a 302 redirect to itself.

Edit the class-wpml-query-parser.php file found in the ../wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/query-filtering folder.

Find the maybe_redirect_to_translated_taxonomy() function.

You should change the following code:

if ( $translated_slugs && $slug !== $translated_slugs[0] ) {

to:

if ( $translated_slugs && $slug != $translated_slugs[0] ) {

paulH-3 says:

April 30, 2019 at 9:53 am

We’ve run into this issue on a client site.

We thought about using != but felt that it would not be completely accurate as it would evaluate “0” == “” == false == null. Instead we fixed it in this way:

if ( $translated_slugs && "{$slug}" !== $translated_slugs[0] ) {

However, more importantly, we are concerned that a future update will overwrite our changes, so please can you confirm when a fix will be in place for this issue?

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- David says:
  
  May 2, 2019 at 5:38 pm
  
  This is part of the WPML 4.3 development cycle and should be fixed by then.
  Keep an eye on this page to be up to date about this.
  
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