Hide language and redirect it

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Last updated by Bobby 1 year, 10 months ago.

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July 18, 2023 at 2:17 pm #14060047
michaelW-121	Hi, I have a website in English and Spanish using WPML - however the Spanish website is no longer useful and I can't maintain it. I need to remove / hide the Spanish site for now and also redirect the ES website to the EN version. No pages on ES should be accessible but they shouldn't 404, they should 301 redirect. What's the easiest way to do this using WPML?
July 18, 2023 at 6:33 pm #14061815
Bobby WPML Supporter since 04/2015 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)	Hi there, Based on what you described it might be best to Hide the language. To do this leave WPML activated and go to WPML-> Languages -> Hide languages and hide the Spanish language. The content will automatically redirect to the default language. Related Documentation: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/hiding-languages-on-the-front-end/ Otherwise, If you are no longer using the ES translations, as this is the only other language on the site you could deactivate WPML. This will remove the /es/ directory and the pages will no longer be connected. Do keep in mind that the pages will still exist. For the redirects, you could use a third-party plugin to handle this and set redirects for the /es/ content. Let me know your results, please.
July 19, 2023 at 8:06 am #14063121
michaelW-121	Hi, thanks for the response. How is the redirect added? Is it a 301 redirect?
July 20, 2023 at 6:49 am #14069297
Bobby WPML Supporter since 04/2015 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Los_Angeles (GMT-07:00)	It would be a 302 redirect. You can see it live in this sandbox: hidden link hidden link HTTP/1.1 302 Found Server: nginx/1.22.1 Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2023 06:48:59 GMT Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Connection: keep-alive X-Redirect-By: WPML Location: hidden link

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