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Problem:
If you're experiencing issues after mistakenly putting your site into production mode and are concerned about losing changes when switching back to development mode, we have a solution for you.
Solution:
First, visit your WPML.org account and navigate to the Sites section. Here, you should remove the old key that you were using on the other domain. Next, generate a new key for the domain you wish to use. After generating the new key, return to your website's backend, go to Plugins > Add new > Commercial, and register WPML with the new key. If necessary, click "Unregister" before registering the new key.

Rest assured, your translations are safely stored in the database, so you can remove the old key and add a new one without risking the loss of your translated content.

If this solution doesn't seem relevant to your situation, please don't hesitate to open a new support ticket with us.

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Last updated by Mihai Apetrei 1 year, 6 months ago.

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December 4, 2023 at 2:14 pm #14987827

sana-hotels-portugalS

I mistakenly put my site hidden link into production.

Can you put it back into development?

December 5, 2023 at 11:50 am #14996485

Mihai Apetrei
WPML Supporter since 03/2018

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+03:00)

Hi there.

After you migrate your site to the new domain, you will just need to go to WPML.org > Account > Sites (https://wpml.org/account/sites) > remove the old key (dev key) that you were using on the other domain, and generate a new key for the new domain (production key).

After that, go back to the newly migrated website backend > Plugins > Add new > Commercial and register WPML with the new key (you might need to click "Unregister" first).

If you want to change the key to production or dev, you can go here (https://wpml.org/account/sites/), remove the old key and generate a new one.

I hope that you will find this information helpful!

Please let me know how things go or if there's anything I'm missing here.

Kind regards,
Mihai Apetrei

December 5, 2023 at 12:48 pm #14997337

sana-hotels-portugalS

Hi,
Thank you.
But if I change the key, will I lose the changes I've already made?

December 5, 2023 at 4:19 pm #15000843

Mihai Apetrei
WPML Supporter since 03/2018

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Bucharest (GMT+03:00)

Hi there.

No, the translations are saved inside the database.

You can remove the key and add a new one without any risks of losing the translated content.

Mihai