I’m experiencing an issue with WPML and WP Recipe Maker integration.
On my website:
The default language is English
The WordPress backend is set to English
WPML is fully configured and working correctly for posts and pages
Recipes (wprm_recipe) are set as Translatable – only show translated items
The problem
When I create or duplicate a recipe card (either from inside a post or from WP Recipe Maker → All Recipes), the recipe is incorrectly assigned to Italian, even when it should be English.
This issue has already happened multiple times
The latest example is with my recipe:
👉 “Chickpea Focaccia Farinata”
I created:
one recipe for the English post
one recipe for the Italian version
However:
❌ Both recipes were assigned Recipe Language: Italian
even though:
the English post is correctly set as English
the backend language is English
WPML language was set to English during creation
Attached screenshot
In the screenshot you can clearly see:
The English recipe has Parent Language = English
But Recipe Language = Italian
The Italian recipe is also set to Italian
This shows that the recipe language is not being assigned correctly.
Current issues:
Recipes are incorrectly assigned to Italian (wrong language)
Recipes do not appear in the WPML Translation Dashboard
I cannot properly manage or link recipe translations
Even when duplicating and manually translating a recipe, both versions remain assigned to Italian
What I already checked:
Post type "recipe" is set as translatable
I tested creating recipes both inside the post editor and directly from WP Recipe Maker
WPML language switcher is correctly set to English
The site default language is English
Expected behavior:
Recipes should inherit the correct language (English or Italian) based on:
the current WPML language
or the language of the post they are created in
and should appear in the WPML Translation Dashboard.
Questions:
Is this a known compatibility issue between WP Recipe Maker and WPML?
Why are recipes always assigned to Italian instead of the active language?
Is there a way to force the correct language assignment for recipes?
What is the recommended workflow for multilingual recipes with WPML + WPRM?
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )Italian (Italiano )
Timezone: Europe/Madrid (GMT+02:00)
Please let me know a recipe to see the issue.
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Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )Italian (Italiano )
Timezone: Europe/Madrid (GMT+02:00)
It looks like the issue is that every time you create a recipe from WPRM → Manage, it is automatically assigned to the default language. From that interface, there doesn’t seem to be an option to choose or change the language of the recipe.
Based on how the plugin works, this behavior is expected: recipes should be created in the default language first, and then translated into the secondary languages.
To investigate this further, could you please install the plugin on the following test site?
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Once it’s set up, just let me know and I’ll take a closer look right away.
I create a post and, in WordPress editing, add the new WPRM recipe card to the post. If I look in WPRM >MANAGE, it shows the recipe's language assigned to ITALIAN, but my post is in English.
I know you previously asked me to record a video showing the issue, but unfortunately I cannot do that at the moment because the workflow is extremely time-consuming and the same problem happens every single time regardless of the exact procedure I follow.
No matter how I duplicate the posts or recipe cards, the result is always the same:
WPML eventually changes the language assignment of the recipe cards automatically and incorrectly.
Because of this, I believe the issue is not related to a specific sequence of actions, but rather to the synchronization between WPML and WP Recipe Maker when translated recipe cards are inserted into translated posts.
To summarize, these are the problems I am consistently experiencing:
1. Recipe card language assignments change automatically after inserting translated recipe cards into translated posts. (Image 1)
* Example: Zucchini Flower Frittata hidden link. After inserting the French recipe card into the French post, the original English recipe card may suddenly become assigned to another language.
* Sometimes recipe cards also lose their Parent Name or Parent Language completely.
* I end up with multiple recipe cards with identical names and timestamps even though I did not create them manually.
3. In translated recipe cards, the “Instructions” section title disappears completely. (Image 2 and Image 3)
* Ingredients display correctly, but the Instructions heading is missing in translated recipes.
4. When I duplicate posts through WPML Translation Dashboard, translated posts are automatically published even if they still contain English content.
* I would instead expect duplicated translations to be created as Drafts automatically.
5. After noticing this behavior, I manually edited the duplicated translated posts and changed them to Draft status myself.
* However, even after saving them as Drafts, I can still see translated frontend URLs that appear publicly accessible. (Image 4)
* The posts are still entirely in English, but they continue to appear as published translations on the frontend.
* This creates serious multilingual SEO concerns because untranslated English content appears under translated language URLs.
I attached screenshots showing these issues inside WP Recipe Maker Manage and on the frontend.
Could you please investigate the synchronization between WPML and WP Recipe Maker in this workflow and advise what the officially recommended procedure should be for multilingual recipe cards?
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )Italian (Italiano )
Timezone: Europe/Madrid (GMT+02:00)
Hi there!
As I can no longer access your site, it seems that my user account has been removed.
Could you please try to reproduce the issue on the test site instead? That way, we can investigate it further and, if needed, pass it to our compatibility team. hidden link
