[Resolved] I'd like to retain the original URL

Hello,

thanks for your patience.

I have checked the URLs you shared in the chat, but I do not see the same behavior.

Anyway for us to check further and for an easier understanding of the issue and excluding any custom code you may have, I have created a test site.

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Please login and create one example page or URL, and explain what happens and what would be the correct behavior.

Then I will check further and consult with our 2nd tier.

Thanks,
Drazen

Hello,

there is no way out of the box to disable sticky links on some content.

As for how the sticky link works, it will never show on the front end as hidden link, this is only shown in the backend and in the front end it shows as your permalink settings. As for redirection, redirecting from page ID permalink to your current permalink happens also without WPML, it is done by WP and that is expected and how WP works.

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In your case, there might be also some other things or code involved that are causing issues or problems for you specifically with sticky links. I would advise checking in minimal.

Feel free to contact us again if there is anything else we can do for you.

Regards,
Drazen

Hello,

my colleague said that you can try this if it helps, and that it might help, but that code is not used for that nor maintaining or converting URLs of pages.

Code is used to exclude auto connection /conversion of links from 1st to 2nd language, and this way, with code, you can set different URLs, external ones. It works only for links inside page content.

As it says in docs:

Sometimes, you might want to insert a link to a page that is in another language. Since Sticky Links adjusts the links automatically, it might prevent you from doing this and adjust the link to point to the same language instead.

Regards,
Drazen

Hello,

as I already said, in order for us to try to help and understand in which cases it happens and what you are trying to do, we need some help and collaboration from your side. What you are describing, might not be directly related to sticky links and WPML, but WordPress, as sticky links, do not convert URLs on front end, but only back end.

So, please in order to continue, follow my suggestion and try to reproduce and show us an example on the next test website, without any additional custom code or plugins, simple example:

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We will be glad to check and try to further help.

Regards,
Drazen

Hello,

great, thanks for taking the time to reproduce. It makes now a lot more sense to me, and the situation is clear.

I have added the next code to functions.php, and then re-added the link to the page and saved the page. It seems to work fine now. Please check.

add_filter( 'wpml_sl_blacklist_requests', 'wpml_sl_blacklist_requests', 10, 2 );
 
function wpml_sl_blacklist_requests( $blacklist, $sitepress ) {
    $blacklist[] = 'my-account/custom-endpoint-183927';
    return $blacklist;
}

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Regards,
Drazen