Problem: The client was experiencing an issue where their blog was generating an English URL for articles that should not be translated, despite changing the setting to 'Not translatable'. This was causing concerns about duplicate content affecting SEO performance. Solution: We recommended setting the Posts to 'Translatable - only show translated items' in WPML -> Settings -> Post type translation. Additionally, we adjusted the Language switcher options under WPML -> Languages. Here, we set 'How to handle languages without translation' to 'Skip language'. After saving these changes, the English flag no longer appears on blog posts, and visiting the English URL redirects to the Portuguese URL.
If this solution does not resolve your issue, or if it seems outdated or irrelevant to your case, we highly recommend checking related known issues at https://wpml.org/known-issues/, verifying the version of the permanent fix,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.
