Problem: You are trying to prevent WPML from auto-translating specific links on translated pages, aiming to use English links on German pages. Despite following the provided documentation, the links still auto-translate to the targeted page translation instead of pointing to the original English page. Solution: In WPML -> Settings, you can adjust the page slug setting from "Auto generate from the title" to "Copy." This setting is mainly for languages with encoded URLs. Alternatively, you can use the "Translate" setting within the translation editor to manually set the slug, allowing you to point links to the original language page as needed. For further customizations beyond these settings, additional development might be necessary, which is outside our support scope.
If this solution does not resolve your issue or seems outdated, we recommend checking related known issues at https://wpml.org/known-issues/, verifying the version of the permanent fix, and confirming that you have installed the latest versions of themes and plugins. If the problem persists, please open a new support ticket.
