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Problem:
You are experiencing an issue where the default variation selection for WooCommerce products translated from Italian to English using WPML is not maintained. The English versions of the products do not display a default variation, and this issue began after a recent update.
Solution:
We recommend updating your system based on the latest workaround provided in our errata. Please visit the following link and apply the suggested updates: https://wpml.org/errata/woocommerce-multilingual-default-attributes-not-synced-properly/. After updating, recheck the product with the issue to ensure the default variation is correctly synced.

If this solution does not resolve your issue or seems outdated, we highly recommend checking related known issues at https://wpml.org/known-issues/, verifying the version of the permanent fix, and confirming that you have installed the latest versions of themes and plugins. Should the problem persist, please do not hesitate to open a new support ticket with us for further assistance.

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Last updated by Paola Mendiburu 2 months, 3 weeks ago.

Assisted by: Paola Mendiburu.

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September 23, 2025 at 10:47 am #17424599

claudioP-10

Thank you, it works! Hopefully there will be a way to have a bulk update for all products in future, as I have more than 1000 and it's not doable updating them one by one. Please let me know in case.
Thanks and have a nice day

September 23, 2025 at 11:06 am #17424702

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

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

Timezone: Europe/Madrid (GMT+01:00)

We have just updated the errata with a workaround:
https://wpml.org/errata/woocommerce-multilingual-default-attributes-not-synced-properly/

Please after this update the product with the issue.