[Resolved] after taking 4.7.4 update facing issues with repeated posts

We are also trying to check in your test site, but it will be great if you could also help us find out the issue in our staging site .. as we also tried deactivating all the other plugins, but still it doesn't work and the older version of the WPML is giving us some vurnability warning due to which our client is after us to update to the latest version but it is not working for us.

Forgot to tell you the admin URL is /apf-login

It would be really helpful if you could check on our staging server and let us know what the conflict is and how to resolve this situation. If we remove the string Translation plugin, it is working fine. With the string translation plugin, the term is having an issue on the Elementor loop carousel. It is showing fine in the edit page but it is not coming up on the UI.

It would be greatly appreciated if you could help us debug the issue on our staging server. Additionally, if you could prioritize this task, that would be very helpful, as our client has flagged it as a significant concern. The current version of WPML installed on the production site is showing vulnerability warnings, which is why we’d like to upgrade to the latest version. You’re most welcome to take a backup and try to reproduce the issue on your end.

The main issue we’re facing is that a specific post category is not displaying in an Elementor loop on the frontend UI. However, the loop works correctly within the Elementor editor. Please do let us know if you need any details from our side. I have already given the FTP access as well as the WordPress admin details.

I think our Cloudflare setup is blocking the installation directly with the upload.

I can see that the "All-in-One WP Migration and Backup" version 7.94 plugin has already been installed but is inactive state. Do let me know if you are looking for anything else

Hi Andreas,

Could you please let us know if there are any updates on this issue?

If we use the previous version of the WPML then everything works fine in that state.
Our production site is running on the previous version of WPML and is working fine.

However, we’re currently unable to use the latest WPML version due to the ongoing issue, and our Hostinger server is flagging the older version as vulnerable.

We’d really appreciate your help in resolving this as soon as possible.

Hi Andreas,

We did some investigation while you were away and wanted to share our findings. I’ve attached two screenshots — one showing the query when the String Translation plugin is enabled, and the other when it’s disabled.

For some reason, the [tax_query] element is missing from the query array when the String Translation plugin is active.

Additionally, we’re now able to filter posts using the query ID, but not by category name. Strangely, the category filter is not being included in the main query when the plugin is enabled. We’re currently applying the category filter using the query ID, but only after the main query has been fired — which isn’t ideal.

Additionally during our debug, we found that in the file class-wpml-term-query-filter.php located at

sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/query-filtering

in the function get_terms_args_filter the below code is retruing 0 which we think should not be 0

if ( 0 === count( array_filter( (array) $taxonomies, array( $this->taxonomy_state, 'is_translated_taxonomy' ) ) ) ) {
return $args;
}

We hope this helps narrow down the issue. Looking forward to your guidance on how to proceed.

Here are the query parameters:

query parameters when string translation plugin is enabled:

Array ( [posts_per_page] => 6 [paged] => 1 [has_custom_pagination] => [post_status] => publish [post_type] => post [orderby] => post_date [order] => desc [ignore_sticky_posts] => [date_query] => Array ( ) )

query parameters when string translation plugin is disabled:

Array ( [posts_per_page] => 6 [paged] => 1 [has_custom_pagination] => [post_status] => publish [post_type] => post [orderby] => post_date [order] => desc [ignore_sticky_posts] => [tax_query] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [taxonomy] => category [field] => term_taxonomy_id [terms] => Array ( [0] => 446 ) ) ) [date_query] => Array ( ) )