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Overview of the issue
When you enable the Strip Category Base option in Rank Math → General Settings and translate the taxonomy slug in WPML → Taxonomy Translation, the translated archive page displays a 404 error.
Workaround
We’re working on a fix for this issue. In the meantime, do not translate the category slug. The untranslated term won’t be visible in the URL anyway when Strip Category Base is turned on.
I have the same issue with WPML SEO and strip category prefix. Often I get a 404 on my secondary language. Fix is to go to permalink settings and hit the save button.
My 2 languages are on a seperate domain.
NL > http://www.domaindutch.be
FR > http://www.domainfrench.be
Running WPML version. 4.4.10
Is this fix ready or an easy hack to solve this? I’m experiencing this problem for 9 months now.
Hello Johan,
For the moment we have the workaround available on the description. If it does not work, don’t hesitate to open a ticket in our support forum as it may be a different situation.
Regards
Hi Andrés,
Does the workaround mean in my case that I have to remove translated french categories and only create new categories in French and assign correct posts to the newly created french categories?
With the workaround, I suppose my language switch is not gonna work, only for categories?
No, you can keep your categories translated, just do not translate the category slugs.
If you have have any issue with this procedure, don’t hesitate to open a ticket in our support forum.
Thanks for the feedback. Do you have a time indication when the real fix is coming? I’m waiting almost 9 months for this fix.
Unfortunately, I can’t provide your an ETA so far as it depends on our developers and the plugin author.
We will update it here as soon as we have any information.