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Problem:
The client reported that after manually translating the 'About Us' page to Spanish, the content reverted to English within a few hours. Additionally, a critical error occurred preventing the page from loading.
Solution:
We first suggested ensuring that manual translations are edited manually. Upon further investigation, we discovered a critical error unrelated to WPML, indicated by a fatal error due to memory exhaustion. We recommended:
1. Checking the server error logs, which can be done by following the debugging guide at https://wpml.org/documentation/support/debugging-wpml/
2. Consulting with the hosting provider to address the memory limit issue.

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Last updated by gustavoH 1 week, 2 days ago.

Assisted by: Kor.

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April 4, 2025 at 7:33 am #16895494

gustavoH

It looks like issue is resolved but new issue is that the content of both pages stays as English version

April 4, 2025 at 7:42 am #16895566

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. I've checked your Website and I noticed that your homepage is using the manual translation. If it's translated manually, you need to edit the translated contents manually.

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April 8, 2025 at 1:33 am #16906584

gustavoH

Hi Kor,

I thought this issue was resolved, but when I translate the page manually and save it, a few hours later, I find that all of my translation gets erased and reverts back to the english only. This has happened twice now.

I had translated the About Us page to Spanish entirely and when I logged in 2 days later, it was all in English again.

Then I partially translated it and saved my work and created a backup. I did this today in the morning, and now that it's evening I checked again and all my work was lost. Also, the About Us page says there's a critical error and it cannot load. The back up that I created after doing the partial translation is in Updraft for April 7 at 7:28am.

Please send me a private message so I can send you my new login details, since I changed my password. Thanks.

April 8, 2025 at 6:33 am #16906875

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. Ok, sure. Please use the private reply option below.

April 9, 2025 at 11:01 am #16912801

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. Strange that I can't even edit the About Us page in English and I'm getting a critical error. Could you please share FTP access here so that I can check the server error logs? Or maybe you can do this yourself https://wpml.org/documentation/support/debugging-wpml/ and share the debug log contents here.

April 9, 2025 at 12:23 pm #16913375

gustavoH

debug error logs https://pastebin.com/sC1VyCue

April 9, 2025 at 5:35 pm #16915259

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. I can no longer login to your Website. Could you revert the changes that you've done?

April 9, 2025 at 8:27 pm #16915909

gustavoH

I reverted the changes. By the way, I think you installed the WP File Manager, which you can access that wp-config.php file there as well. Thanks.

April 10, 2025 at 3:27 pm #16919592

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. I've enabled debugging mode, and now it crashes the file manager too. Could you please grant me FTP access so that I can troubleshoot this further?

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April 11, 2025 at 4:02 pm #16923644

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. It looks like the issue is not related to WPML. I've deactivated the WPML plugin and I still cannot edit the "about us" page hidden link . Could you check with your hosting provider? I'm getting "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 536870912 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 1249280 bytes) in /home/customer/www/staging2.piedrecita.com/public_html/wp-includes/class-wpdb.php on line 2316"

April 14, 2025 at 12:11 pm #16929154

gustavoH

Thank you, memory was increased and solved the issue.