Problem:
I have a question about users in the different countries that are setup. Let's say there is a user in France and each page has a French translated version. When this user goes onto the homepage for example, would it automatically show this user the French version of the page, or does the user need to select France from the dropdown menu? If it doesn't work like that, our client is currently using GeoLocation (https://geotargetingwp.com/) on their current live multisite (which takes that user to the correct sub site at the moment, as they have different sub sites for each language), obviously on this new site there's only the one site as we're using WPML to make it multilingual, so would there be a way to integrate GeoLocation with this plugin, so when a French user lands on the site it will show the French version of each page?
Also a separate question (I will use French again as an example), let's say I went on the French version of the homepage, then I clicked into a case study which doesn't have a French version translated yet, what would that French user see on the case study page? Would it default to the English version instead?
Solution:
WPML currently offers only the option to do an automatic browser language redirect which essentially detects the visitor's browser language and then if that language exists in your site it redirects them to it. The downfall with this is that it's based on the visitor's browser language rather than their location. So, answering your question:
"does the user need to select France from the dropdown menu?"
Yes, they'll need to use the language switcher. At the moment, Geolocation is only possible with third-party plugins or custom coding, which does fall beyond the scope of our support. But perhaps I can point you in the right direction:
#1 As mentioned above, it's possible to use plugins to achieve it. Please check our compatible plugins list in this category (which includes the one that you mentioned, 'GeotargetingWP PRO '): https://wpml.org/plugin-functionality/geotargeting/
#2 You can also consider contacting one of our certified partners from this link: https://wpml.org/contractors/
Alternatively, please feel free to request this feature at the link: https://wpml.org/suggest-a-new-feature-for-wpml/. We will analyze it and upon further check, it can be available in the future versions of WPML.
Now, about the second question:
"let's say I went on the French version of the homepage, then I clicked into a case study which doesn't have a French version translated yet, what would that French user see on the case study page? Would it default to the English version instead?"
Since there is not a French version for the case study, the user will be redirected to the default language.
