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Last updated by Alejandro 1 day, 3 hours ago.

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July 23, 2025 at 10:45 pm #17265672
yvesB-21

yith filter is breaking on language pages hidden link

images are not showing in places hidden link
sometimes product images are not showing on different languages

July 24, 2025 at 2:39 am #17265794
yvesB-21

can you check why i am seeing this ? 503 error

New threads created by Alejandro and linked to this one are listed below:

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/503-error-ate/

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July 24, 2025 at 10:05 am #17266802

Alejandro
WPML Supporter since 02/2018

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)

Hello,

I have split all the issues on their own ticket. we can only handle one issue per ticket.

I'll be checking it out soon and leave answer on all the tickets.

Regards.

July 25, 2025 at 12:26 am #17269671

yvesB-21

I have another issue, could you help me from where i can change the URL of other languages? like for example portugul is pt-pt and Chinese is zh-hans
i want to change pt-pt to pt
and for zh-hans to /zh-CN

July 25, 2025 at 5:24 pm #17271899

Alejandro
WPML Supporter since 02/2018

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)

Hello, you can change the metadata but not the URL. to do that you need to create a custom language first and set it up as you want.

I'm not sure how you want to set up chinese, but portuguese is "pt-br" or "pt-pt" because there are 2 major portuguese languages and that's how the search engines better differentiate them. the same happens with chinese, there are 2 different codes for them zh-hans (Simplified Chinese) and zh-hant (Traditional Chinese).

All those codes are conventions, not made up by us but international conventions that the systems use to better identify the language.

To add new languages you can go to WPML > Languages > Add New Language.

However that means that since you're also switching the entire locale and language information, you won't have translation memory for those new languages (they are supposed to be different) unless you map them with the same configuration as the others that were already translated (under the "Language Mapping column").

The url part is handled by the column "code" which you can set only once when creating the new language and you can't change anymore.

You can check out this guide for more details: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/language-setup/editing-wpmls-languages-table/

Regards,

July 26, 2025 at 12:10 am #17272193

yvesB-21

okay i understand but there is a major error in Arabic language hidden link it is giving critical error

July 28, 2025 at 6:28 am #17273770

yvesB-21

HELLOO Alejandro

PLEASE DO NOT COME UP WITH STANDARD GUIDLINES, YOU GUYS HAVE TO FIX THE ISSUES!!!!

July 28, 2025 at 7:04 am #17273794

yvesB-21

why is the non English version showing in english version, also these links arent opening and causing cookie issue. please fix these issues fast

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July 28, 2025 at 12:14 pm #17274897

Alejandro
WPML Supporter since 02/2018

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)

Ok, I think I see the problem here and I need you to please keep things clean.

My last answer, was about the new languages or language code problem (in the URL) which I give you the answer to.

Up to this point you didn't say there was a problem in Arabic but then you answer

okay i understand but there is a major error in Arabic language hidden link it is giving critical error

You never mentioned there was a critical error in arabic on this ticket, right? it's the first time you mention this, so of course NOW i'm going to separate the ticket and handle that.

Please remember that I work from monday to friday so If you write on saturday or sunday you'll get an answer on monday, just as I'm doing now.

Please be patient, I'm not giving you absolutely "standard" guidelines, I'm answering your questions and telling you what you can do.

I can't work on live sites as freely as I can on a staging site because in IT things can go wrong unexpectedly and doing things in live sites is a major risk for you and for me.

I'm working very carefully here, but I do need you to be patient, because before doing this things on a live site, you should've started with a staging site, test things and then pass to the live site to avoid errors. plus, these errors you are just mentioning didn't seem to exist before (and if they did, you didn't give me details about them earlier) so I couldn't prioritize them among the other issues we're handling.

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To me arabic is not giving any critical issue at all, and it didn't even on friday so can you be more specific where exactly are you seeing the errors?

However you do have some issues on your site and I have a feeling that I mentioned them already: your database is wrongly configured. if you do not fix the collation issue on your database, you will not see your site working correctly.

you can see all that I did about this here: hidden link

and you can see the errors yourself in the debug.log. this has been happening for a while already and has nothing to do with WPML but it will affect your entire site.

Issues will appear more often with arabic, hindi, chinese because all their alphanbet are special characters, it will happen less often with spanish, italian because they have less special characters (accents) in their alphabet.

If you don't fix that with your hosting or your developer you're going to continue having issues in your site, and that would explain why you see critical errors and I don't because they happen when queries with special characters are sent which doesn't happen everytime I visit a page.

Regards.