[Waiting for user feedback] I want to prevent wpml from changing my links in elementor

Quick addition :
I have a shortcode that displays a list of brands (= products attributes).
It gets the content from a php page and edit all the links.

I stored in a var all the links separated by comas and displayed them in an html commented line before the rendered html and all of them are in the current language but the html code that is displayed has all its linked changed back to original language. WPML is 'fixing' the links using a wordpress hook somewhere. I need to prevent this action and be sure wpml doesn't change any link.

Hello, can you be more precise on this snippet please ?
And sorry for the misunderstanding but when I was talking about the custom code, it was just as an addition. The issue comes from translated elementor pages at first.

To explain in better :
- I have one homepage made with elementor.
- It has translated version.
- In this page, we have sliders with images and links.
- When translating links for different pages (normal pages, blogs, etc..) all is working great in all languages
- When translating brands link (which are product attributes set to "no translatable" since we don't translate brands BUT still have translated version of URL working (with the language is une the url), wpml shouldn't force the original version of the link.

Your solution seems to be the one we're looking for but we don't know what to put as $blacklist[] value. Can you help us on that ? (our brands url are : site.com/brand/the-brand-slug/

About the custom code : in these same pages, we call a shortcode that lists all the brands. To avoid long query when we charge the pages (as we want to make sure brands are not empty), we have a daily cron that writes all non-empty brands in a file, then the shortcode gets the content and displays it on our website. We tried to save all the links in a var and display it, it displays all the translated links for each pages but the displayed content of the shortcode itself is re-modified by wpml to the original version of the links. I think your solution could help us on that too.

Thank you

Hello,

sorry. The issue is concerning woocommerce products' attributes. I can't try it without woocommerce plugin.

Here's how to reproduce it :
- install wpml, elementor and woocommerce
- create BRANDS attribute (do not use the newly added brands option in woocommerce, I'm talking about products attributes like sizes or whatever) with "brands" as a slug.
- in wpml setting, set this attribute as "not translatable".
- create an elementor page with the brand attribute link on a text/slider/widget (ie: hidden link) then translate this page with a translated link ( hidden link .

The attribute has to exist before ! (I tried writing a fake link : hidden link and I can see that it outputs "correctly" (since it doesn't exists it is filtered I think but like that : hidden link). I need wpml to just not filter urls by checking if they are good or not.

Let me know if you still see hidden link in the href of the translated version of the page.

Hello,

First, I could create brand attribute as I changed the slug in permalinks beforehand.

So :
- original : hidden link
- translated : hidden link
Both work even if pa_brand is set as non translatable.

I created a test page ( hidden link ) and its translated version ( hidden link )
I changed the links of the widget in the Spanish version and it's working.

Which brought two things :
1- when translating using the wpml translating page (admin > pages > clic on update/edit translated version of the page), I can't see/edit widget links. I have to do it using elementor on the Spanish version.

2- I think I know why it's not working on our website, it's because of a previous issue we had and I saw that many people had issues with cache ( https://wpml.org/forums/topic/object-cache-issues/ ). It's maybe because of our object cache. We are using APCu (not redis that we tried and isn't as good for us) and we discovered that when we shut down the cache, many links work better than when we activate the plugin. We tried many object cache plugins and system (redis as said previously) . In our previous tickets, someone from wpml sent me a plugin that works with cache plugins but it didn't really help.
It looks like there is a conflict with object caching. Do you have an idea to prevent this ?
What is even crazier is that when I put a link to a translated blog article or a fake brand, it works. It just doesn't work with products attributes.
(examples : hidden link and hidden link look at the links when your mouse is over a carousel item that goes to a brand).

But what is weird also is the same issue with our custom shortcode. As I said, we list all the links. I store them in a var and list them in some html that is called by the elementor page. What is weird is that if I display the content of the var (so just url in text format separated by comas), all links appear translated in all languages. But the html output called by elementor has the same error as the widgets, it edits the links back to their original version.

Hello,
I've flushed the cache, deactivated the object cache plugin but still I'm still having the issue.
I can translate all the links but the brands attribute ones.. Any idea what could cause this ? This is driving me crazy. Is there a setting I should verify or something ?

I don't have any plugin linked to this.

And the craziest part is with the shortcode (that lists all the brands attributes with at least one product in it).. It just makes no sense. As I said, if I store all the links in a var and display it as an html comment with all the link separated by comas, all the links are translated. But when I display the html (that generates a slider of all these brands), it turns all the link to original ones..
Nevertheless, I saw that if the generated links are like this : hidden link , the issue we have happens.
But if they are generated like this :
hidden link , then the generated links in the slider are all well translated.

It looks like the issue happens only on rewrote (rewrited ?) links.