This thread is resolved. Here is a description of the problem and solution.
Problem: The client is experiencing issues with translating Astra admin strings using WPML. Despite following the standard procedure for registering and translating strings, the translations are not being retained, and the settings revert to the default language. This issue has been persistent and unresolved for over 10 months.
Solution: 1. **Contact Astra Theme Support**: The client should contact Astra's support team to report the issue with
admin_texts_astra-settings
translations being mixed or overwritten when using WPML. It's important to emphasize that the theme should maintain compatibility with WPML and not overwrite multilingual values stored in
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Background of the issue:
I am trying to manage Astra admin strings using WPML.
Symptoms:
The expected outcome was not achieved, but the specific issue or error is not detailed.
Questions:
What steps should I follow to manage Astra admin strings with WPML?
Why am I not seeing the expected results when managing Astra admin strings?
Also, please tell me where to see the problem on your site.
In other words, where can I see that Astra admin strings are not translated on the frontend?
Please provide a link to a page with this problem and include screenshots.
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Hopefully he still has our testing sire.
I'm loosing sales on a regular basis because of this shitty glitch.
Trigered one more time after testing the option "adjust theme ID for multilingual".
By someone of your team for another ticket. Probably accessing the theme customizer, as usual.
As the original ticket was closed no, it no longer exists.
Please note that in order for us to debug this issue we will need to be able to reproduce the behavior as we were not able to during all our previous efforts.
Are you able to provide us access to an environment where we can reproduce the issue.
Hello!
I've deleted all astra strings translations because it's not what I did on the live sites.
From now, I recommand you to translate all the astra strings. Since it's a paid function, let me know when you did it hidden link