[Resolved] Posts not showing up unless 1 is converted even though the setting is set to default

Problem:
The client was experiencing an issue where posts were not displaying unless one post was translated, even though the WPML settings were set to 'Translatable - use translation if available or fallback to default language'. The posts were sorted by a custom taxonomy and needed to be visible in the Spanish translation without being translated, as they linked to primarily English content.

Solution:
We resolved the issue by adding the parameter

'hide_empty' => false

to the

get_terms()

function in the custom WP_Query. This allowed terms with no posts translated into the secondary language to be displayed.

$terms = get_terms(array(
    'taxonomy' => $taxonomy_slug,
    'child_of' => $parent_term_id, // Specify the parent term ID
    'hide_empty' => false
));

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