[Resolved] How to create links that should not be transformed with WPML

Hi,

Thank you for contacting us and I'd be happy to assist.

To troubleshoot and suggest the next steps, I'll need to see how this permalink structure and WPML are configured on the website.

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regards,
Waqar

Thank you for waiting.

During testing on your website's clone, I was able to exclude these custom links from WPML's filtering, using the following workaround:

1). In the active theme's 'functions.php' file, I updated the function 'build_pet_cat_link', so that instead of the 'href' it would include the target link in the 'data-link' attribute:
(note: I also included a class 'links-to-update' to distinguish these custom-generated links easily)

function build_pet_cat_link($slug, $pet) {
    $output = sprintf('<a href="#" data-link="/pets/%s/product-category/%s" class="links-to-update">', $pet, $slug);
    return $output;
}

2). Next, at the bottom of the same file, I also included the following function that would include a custom script in the footer across the website:

function build_pet_cat_link_script() {
    ?>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        jQuery( document ).on( 'ready', function( event, data ) {
            jQuery('a.links-to-update').each(function () {
                var url = jQuery(this).attr("data-link");
                if (url) {
                    jQuery(this).attr("href",url);
                }
            });
        });
    </script>
    <?php
}
add_action( 'wp_footer', 'build_pet_cat_link_script' );

This script finds all the links with the class 'links-to-update' and replaces the value from the 'data-link' attribute with the 'href' attribute, once the page loading has completed.