I changed the standard language from German to English in the settings of WPML. It happens that there is no content shown for any product.
I noticed different URLs: hidden link
--> Standard language German, English version of the website hidden link
--> --> Standard language English, English version of the website
To reproduce the problem, feel free to change anything on this website. It's a test environment.
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Hi,
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I visited the link you provided, but I can see content in both languages.
Is the issue solved?
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Hi there,
I checked both versions and got the following URL's:
- English: hidden link
- German: hidden link
The content was displayed correctly on both languages. The only difference I noticed is that the english URL have the "?lang=en" parameter, while the German version don't. This is expected because the default language of the website is German.
The only error I got is one related with the SSL certificate (not related with WPML).
Is this correct? If not, could you please send us more details? Sometimes screenshots illustrating what you mean may go a long way to clarify what words fail to transmit, so if you like, make use of “upload an image” below the comment area.
Hello Diego,
somehow my answer from yesterday is not showing here anymore -.-
I think there was a missunderstandig....
The two links you checked are total fine, yes. There are the links for the two versions of the product if German is set as standard language.
BUT
If I change this and set the standard language to english, then the URL for the english version of the product is not hidden link
but hidden link
This link doesn't exists and therefore a 402 is shown.
So somehow the URLs are not set correctly when changing the standard language
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Hi there,
I think this is expected, but I'm not sure if I understood the issue correctly. If you set english as the default language (on WPML > languages > Default Language), the correct URL would be hidden link - it will not have the language parameter, because it's already the default language.
If that's not the issue, could you send us access to your website and the steps to reproduce it? This way it will be easier to understand (and perhaps fix) the problem.
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Hello Diego,
yes, this is the issue. I understand why there is no language parameter. But shouldn't this still be a valid URL with tcontent? Otherwise this function of changing the standard language doesn't make sense to me.
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Hi there,
I checked the "hidden link" URL and noticed that we have a 404 error. THis happens because the product was created on english language, and it's not translated yet to German (which is the default language).
Hello Diego,
the product was created in German and then translated into English with WPML.
So usually German is the standard language.
Now I have the problem, that I want to hide the German version of the website and only show the English (translated) Version of the website. I have to do this because the WPML update which was announced for the beginning of November is still not available and there is an error in the current version.
That's why I changed the standard language to English and disabled the language switcher. Not the best solution, but it would work for now. But when I do this, the problem appears like I described it.
If you tell me, I would have to translte the whole website now again from English into German this is not usefull for me.
If you can tell me if there is another solution, let me know.
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Hello,
If you want to hide the German language, you can go to WPML > Languages > Hidden Languages, select the German language and save. This way, only the Default language (english) will be available, so no need to hide the language switcher, and it's easy to enable the language again later.
What error and version of WPML are you talking about? If you want, I can also investigate this error to help you. You can download the lastest WPML version here: https://wpml.org/account/downloads/
Hello Deigo,
thanks for the hint for hiding one language. This is the better version of disableing the second language.
But this doesn't solve the initital problem that I have when I change the standard language to English that the URLs are showing no content.
Do I have to change something in the section "Language URL format"?
At the moment it's set to "Language name added as a parameter" and I read the message "It looks like languages per directories will not function"
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Hi there,
Thanks, I checked the other ticket and it seems that the fix will be included on WooCommerce Multilingual 4.11.0.
Please check if the issue with permalinks still happens after these steps:
- Go to Settings > Permalinks
- Re-save your permalink structure
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Hi there,
The version 4.11.0 is related with Woocommerce Multilingual (WCML), which the current version is 4.10.3. Not WPML.
Thanks for the credentials, I checked the website and found the following configs:
- German is currently select as the default language
- The "boxes" category is translated to "boxen" in german
- Because of that, the correct URL would be hidden link (instead of hidden link)
If you want the same URL on both languages, you need to change the German slug of the category to "boxes" instead of "boxen".
Makes sense? Please let me know if it works for you.
sorry I was confused with the realse numbers. Do you have any information on when the next release will be available?
Your explanation wit the URLs makes sense, yes. But it's not practical to manually change all URLs. In the end it doesn't matter to me how the URLs look like.
I need the English version of the website to be visible and the German version to be hidden. Can you tell me how to acheave this the best way?
