Available Solutions

Problem:
I am trying to: Translate SEO title and meta description for custom post types for each of my website's languages. I can see the string in the "translation strings" screen (and I add the translation here), but in the frontend site, the custom post type archive page only shows meta title and description in the default language.

Solution:
Version 14.0 of the Yoast SEO plugin came out with some major changes. Some changes affected the compatibility with WPML. However, everything's gonna be fixed in Yoast SEO Multilingual 1.2.0. Until then you can use the fix presented in the errata below.

Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/errata/search-page-title-in-wordpress-yoast-seo-is-not-translating/

Problem:
With domain per langauge, The secondary domain with www. version always redirects to primary domain instead of displaying the translation

Solution:
Client htaccess rule which works best

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www\.(.*)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%1%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,QSA,NC,L]

Problem:
We have a multilingual website which is connected with English & Arabic using WPML plugin in WordPress. As a default behavior, the website is redirecting to /en/ version which I need to stop, but the same time, /en/ should not be removed from any menu links. The overall expectation is to stop the redirection only in initial load.

Solution:
Go to WPML->Languages->Browser language redirects and verify that it has been disabled.

Relevant Documentation:

Problem:
Yesterday I tried to activate the Multi-domain functionality, it all seems to work wonderfully, but for one exception: When I activate the multi-domain functionality, all the wp-admin ajax calls are done to the first domain (covid19.groupealliances.com)

Solution:
There is issue when you use “Different domains per language” and Nginx server configured with server_name that does not match your domain name.

Replace:

$url_parts['host'] = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'];

- in wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/url-handling/converter/strategy/class-wpml-url-converter-domain-strategy.php

with:

$url_parts['host'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'];

Relevant Documentation:
- https://wpml.org/errata/possible-nginx-issues-with-different-domains-per-language-setting-when-doing-a-rest-api-call/

Problem:
I added all my pages to Translation Basket as per seen in tutorials. Since that happened I can't open Translation Basket

Solution:
If you do not have any translation in progress (beyond those that are stuck), you can reset it by following the steps below:

- Click on the WPML > Support > Troubleshooting
- Scroll down and look at the "Reset professional translation state"
- Select the "I am about to stop any ongoing work done."
- Click on the "Reset professional translation state"

Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/support/wpml-troubleshooting-options/

Problem:
Some taxonomies in your site are forced to be untranslatable. This is causing a problem when you're trying to run a multilingual WooCommerce site.

Solution:
1) Go to WPML > Settings > Taxonomy translation and make sure all the related product taxonomies are set to (click on the lock to unlock) 'Translatable - only show translated items' or 'Translatable - use translation if available if available or fallback to default language'. For example, product_cat (Product category) should be translatable.

2) Override any of theme XML rules for specific taxonomies by checking theme XML file in the theme root folder and change 0 to 1 (translatable).

or

Go to the WPML -> Settings page and click the Custom XML Configuration tab. Add the taxonomy rules as per our documentation.

Relevant Documentation:
- https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/woocommerce-multilingual/#taxonomies
- https://wpml.org/documentation/support/language-configuration-files/#custom-taxonomies

Problem:
Would you please help us in translating the interactive forms with Formidable PRO addon? We have tried already below solutions, none of them worked.

Solution:
It seems that the glue plugin between WPML and Formidable was not made to have the placeholder string available for translation.

Now, can you go to wp-content/plugins/formidable-wpml/controllers folder, edit the FrmWpmlAppController.php file, and make a change on line 606, please?
Basically, just change the code from this:

$keys = array(
                    'name', 'description', 'default_value',
                    'required_indicator', 'invalid', 'blank',
                    'unique_msg',
                );

to this:

$keys = array(
                    'name', 'description', 'default_value',
                    'required_indicator', 'invalid', 'blank',
                    'unique_msg', 'placeholder',
                );

As you can see, now the placeholder is added to that array so it can be made available for translation.

Relevant Documentation:
https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/how-to-translate-formidable-forms-with-wpml/
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/formidable-placeholder-text/