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Problem:
You are trying to translate the header and footer of your Full Site Editing (FSE) theme into multiple languages using WPML. While other languages are translated successfully, the Finnish translation displays issues. Specifically, the header looks different and, on certain pages, the header and footer disappear entirely.
Solution:
The issue arises because the Finnish “header” template was initially created as an original rather than a translation of the Norwegian template. To resolve this, you should:
1. Copy the content from the Norwegian template (ID 7704).
2. Paste it into the Finnish template (ID 8371), replacing its existing content.
3. Apply this process to other languages to ensure all templates match the Norwegian original.

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Last updated by Bruno Kos 3 months ago.

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October 1, 2025 at 9:40 am #17447909

Gnist Design

Of course, it's installed 🙂

You can change anything u want here, DB and all, no worries.

October 2, 2025 at 8:55 am #17451078

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

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

This has been escalated to our 2nd tier team team and may take some debugging time, I'll get back to you as soon as I have any news or questions for you.

October 6, 2025 at 1:43 pm #17460954

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

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

The issue is that the “header” template was created originally in Finnish instead of being a translation of the Norwegian one. This is why the menu and language switcher aren’t working.

Please copy the content from the Norwegian template (ID 7704) and paste it into the Finnish template (ID 8371), replacing its content.

Do the same for the other languages so all templates match the Norwegian original.

Let me know if this helps!