[Resolved] Link does not translate correctly

Thank you for the access, I am working on it and 'll get back to you as soon as I've some progress.

Thank you for your patience on this. I was able to fix the issue after trying some different approaches.

Using square brackets makes WP to consider it a short code and tries to render it, as you know. With WPML this also leads to a problem and in fact, its not a WPML problem.

To deal with it, usually you can use double square brackets and WordPress leave it as-it-is and shows 1 set of square brackets. But this also didn't work here and the "back" was shown in double brackets (see attached). Although the problem with URLs was resolved.

Another alternate would be the corresponding Unicode HTML Entities, but block editor renders these back to actual character, thus leading to the same problem.

To deal with this, one of our supporter used a solution (https://wpml.org/forums/topic/using-square-brackets-without-declaring-it-as-a-shortcode/) and I've followed the same and it worked just fine. I did followings:

- Removed square brackets from the word "back".
- Switched to code editor and added class="square_brackets" to the A tag for word "back".
- Saved and updated the translation. The word "back" was part of the content and I translated it as "terug". Completed and saved the translation.
- At this point, the URLs were shown as separate fields in ATE, thus giving the opportunity to fix or change accordingly. But these were just fine as you had defined in the content.
- Then I went to Appearance -> Customize -> Additional CSS and added following CSS at end of the existing one:

/* Square Brackets */
a.square_brackets::before {
    content: "[";
}

a.square_brackets::after {
    content: "]";
}

- This adds square brackets to where the "square_brackets" class is applied on an A tag. In this case, to the word "back".

All screenshots are attached to explain the above mentioned.

For the thing that you weren't able to complete the translation, please note that if the default language content contains HTML tags like superscript, subscript, A or etc, this is shown for translation as HTML Markers. And the same HTML markers need to be applied in the translated content to complete the translation (https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/advanced-translation-editor/#html-markers).

The content which isn't shown in the ATE by default but you can search within ATE, does not count towards the completion of the translation. That's the additional content, so if you leave that untranslated, you can still complete the translation by completing all the visible ones by default.

I hope this explains all about it. Please check and confirm.