Conflict between YoastSEO and WPML

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Last updated by Long Nguyen 1 year, 9 months ago.

Assisted by: Long Nguyen.

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September 10, 2023 at 4:25 pm #14371685
petarG-7	I am trying to: Work with Yoast SEO and WPML, the issue is that if WPML is active, i don't see in a post Featured Image, also i get a lot of places 403 forbidden error. Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link here i get 403 error if you hover on workouts and click on next page. But this is not the main issue, the issue is that in the admin panel, when i click Yoast SEO i get infinite loop of 403 errors with cookie issue. I put images below for configuration and such, also of the infinite errors of toast. Also i provide a photo where i disabled YoastSEO as you can see, no errors all is nice, and i see also featured images, etc in the WordPress post editor. I am using the Newspaper theme. This issue happened recently, all was working nicely until soon. I am thinking there was some kind of backup problem, or whatever, but i really don't know how to fix it, and my website soon needs to go to production... I expected to see: No errors. Instead, I got all those images.
September 11, 2023 at 1:52 pm #14376959
Bigul WPML Supporter since 01/2013 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Europe/Vienna (GMT+02:00)	Hello, Welcome to the WPML support forum. We will do our best to help you to resolve the issue. Please try the following steps and let us know if the issue exists or not. 1) Visit Settings>>Permalinks 2) Resave the settings 3) Clear all types of caches 4) If the problem remains, please create a test post 5) Translate the test post and check if is there any difference in the result -- Thanks! Bigul
September 11, 2023 at 7:25 pm #14379335
petarG-7	The issue persists, I can't even save, as I get all the time 403, in Yoast in the post, in everything. If I disable WPML Multilingual CMS all is working nicely. All my themes, PHP everything is up to date.
September 12, 2023 at 7:38 am #14380769
Long Nguyen WPML Supporter since 02/2022 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh (GMT+07:00)	Hi Petar, Thank you for contacting WPML support, I'd be happy to help you with this issue. According to the documentation https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/using-wordpress-seo-with-wpml/ you also need to activate the plugin WPML String Translation to work with Yoast SEO plugin. Please install and activate the plugin and enable a minimal environment as below to see if it helps: - Deactivate all plugins except WPML plugins and Yoast SEO. - Switch to a standard theme of WordPress. ❌ IMPORTANT: Please backup your database and website before proceeding ❌ You can use this plugin to create the backup: https://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/ Look forward to your reply. Thanks
September 15, 2023 at 12:29 pm #14403159
petarG-7	There was some very hard caching, which normal deletion didn't fix it (i don't know why). Deleted everything from the browser (cookies, URLs, cache, all) and now it works. Thanks!