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Last updated by Ilyes 1 year, 9 months ago.

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July 26, 2023 at 12:43 pm #14103981

erezS-3

Hi,
Please look at this page in English: hidden link
Which I auto-translated into German:hidden link

Near the bottom, there is an internal link that WPML transformed by itself to "hidden link"
When it is clicked, it redirects to hidden link, which is the original English link.
This is good and logical because the target page is not translated yet!
My questions:
1) When, in the future, the target page is translated, will the internal links pointing to it be redirected automatically to the translated URL? Or will I need to do something?
2) If the target page was already translated, would WPML automatically link directly to it when the page is submitted to automatic translation?

Thanks!
July 26, 2023 at 5:26 pm #14106303

Ilyes
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Hello,

Thank you for contacting WPML support team,

When the target page is translated in the future, the internal links pointing to it should be redirected automatically to the translated URL. This is because WPML is designed to automatically translate internal links if the pages of the URLs are translated.

However, if the links are not translated automatically, you can manually adjust them by going to WPML-> Settings-> Translate Link Targets and clicking on "Scan now and adjust links" .

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In the case where WPML wasn't able to translate these links and link them properly, you might instead use WPML string translation and see if you could manually find and translate that string in there along with the URL :

https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/string-translation/#translating-strings

Please let me know if this answers your questions,

Thanks,