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Problem:

When you create a page using King Composer page builder and translate it using WPML's translation editor, the translated page shows the original language.

Solution:

Pages created using King Composer need to be translated using the manual translation method as explained in this doc: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/.

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Last updated by Ahmed Mohammed 1 year, 9 months ago.

Assisted by: Ahmed Mohammed.

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January 15, 2023 at 10:57 pm #12822809

donatienC

I am trying to:

Open the English version of couple of pages.
This issue were already reported last year to the support, but it was not resolved. The issue is still present.
Only the URL of the pages has changed
This is the URL of last year ticket
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translations-do-not-download-from-ate/

Link to a page where the issue can be seen:
hidden link
hidden link
hidden link

I expected to see:
The English content of the page should be displayed

Instead, I got:
The french content is still displayed instead of the English content.

The following similar pages however have no problems
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hidden link
hidden link

If you click on their english version (menu language) you will notice that the english contents is displayed as expected.

The ticket was open in April last year but was not resolved
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translations-do-not-download-from-ate/

January 16, 2023 at 10:17 am #12825437

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

Thank you for contacting WPML support!

I understand that for some pages, the English translation does not work as expected, and this page is an example: hidden link - did I get that right? (I'm asking for confirmation because I understand the link you shared (hidden link) is expected to be in French).

From the previous ticket, I see that the issue does not happen when everything is deactivated but WPML plugins. Could you please confirm that too?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

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January 16, 2023 at 11:02 pm #12829925

donatienC

Yes I can confirm that this is the correct English version of the page.

Yes I do remember a behavior like that (it works when everything is deactivated but WPML) when we were troubleshooting last year.

But I have not doublechecked if it is still the case.

Are you able to try using the duplicate copy of the site you colleagues used to troubleshoot another issues I had two week ago?
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/paypal-option-on-checkout-page-not-working-in-french-version/
We created a copy of the website using cloudwaysapps.com

January 17, 2023 at 12:22 pm #12833881

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

> Yes I can confirm that this is the correct English version of the page.

Thank you for the confirmation.

> Yes I do remember a behavior like that (it works when everything is deactivated but WPML) when we were troubleshooting last year.

> But I have not doublechecked if it is still the case.

The Cloudways clone of your website has been deleted as the ticket has been resolved. As the issue does not happen when WPML only is activated, then there could be a conflict with another plugin or the active theme.

Do you have a staging/development area of your website or you prefer to provide you with another Cloudways application so you migrate the website to it?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

January 17, 2023 at 10:37 pm #12837933

donatienC

Hi Ahmed,

No I dont have a staging/development area of the website.

Could you advise how to setup a staging/development area of the website? This include also backup version.

Alternatively, am happy to do another migration of the website via cloudways.

D.

January 18, 2023 at 6:16 pm #12845669

donatienC

Hi Ahmed,

Thanks for the advise.

I just completed the migration

Your migration is complete!
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What you have to do now

Connect your Domain

Enable SSL

Configure Settings
Navigate through your Cloudways-hosted site for quality assurance. If anything is a miss,
drop us a line via a Support Ticket.
GO TO CLOUDWAYS

January 19, 2023 at 8:06 am #12848253

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

Thank you! It looks like there's a fatal error from the Code Snippets plugin or one of the used code snippets. I think I can work around this by deactivating the plugin via FTP.

I need admin login details. I have enabled the private reply for you. Could you please provide me with the login credentials?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

January 23, 2023 at 1:11 pm #12873033

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

Thank you for providing the login credentials. I can see that the pages are created using King Composer plugin, which is incompatible with WPML.

As you can see in the attached screenshots, the translated page content is added in a single text block when you translate the page using WPML's translation editor.

In such cases, we recommend using the manual translation method as explained on this page: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/.

Could you please try that method on any affected page and let me know how it goes?

Looking forward to hearing back from you.

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January 30, 2023 at 1:39 am #12917973

donatienC

Hi Ahmed,

Indeed is I do a manual translation by editing the text inside the textbox for the page to translate it is going to be work as i just tested it.

But I am going to always manually change the contents of these pages translation?

Could you please check how to make it works without having to manually translate the content of these pages? just as it is the case for other the page which don't have this issue?

e.g :

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January 30, 2023 at 4:53 pm #12923729

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

> Indeed is I do a manual translation by editing the text inside the textbox for the page to translate it is going to be work as i just tested it.

Yes. Thank you for trying that.

> But I am going to always manually change the contents of these pages translation?

I apologize for the inconvenience. At the moment, this is the only way to translate content created using the King Composer plugin.

Our compatibility team tried to collaborate with the plugin's developers to integrate with WPML's translation editors, but unfortunately, it didn't come to fruition.

While it may work with some pages, it's not guaranteed and may not function as intended without full integration.

January 31, 2023 at 11:04 pm #12933659

donatienC

Thank You Ahmed!

We can close the issue

February 1, 2023 at 12:56 pm #12938109

Ahmed Mohammed
Supporter

Timezone: Africa/Cairo (GMT+02:00)

Hi there,

> Thank You Ahmed!

>We can close the issue

Sure! I'm going to mark this ticket as resolved. Please feel free to reach out back to us whenever you have questions.

Cheers,