Untranslated taxonomy terms appear as translated in the Advanced Translation Editor

Overview of the issue

When translating a post in the Advanced Translation Editor, new taxonomy terms appear already translated with default language content.

Workaround

Our team is already working on the fix. If this is a blocking issue for you then please make these changes to the WPML files:

• Make a complete backup of site files and database.
• Edit wp-contentpluginswpml-translation-managementclassesxliffclass-wpml-tm-xliff-writer.php line 310
• Replace:

    if ( $this->is_taxonomy_field( $element->field_type ) && $element->field_data != $element->field_data_translated ) {
  

  with

    if ( $this->is_taxonomy_field( $element->field_type ) && !empty( $element->field_data_translated ) && $element->field_data != $element->field_data_translated ) {