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[Waiting for user feedback] There are pages in other languages being created without it being authorized.

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Last updated by Kor 2 days, 23 hours ago.

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October 7, 2025 at 4:13 pm #17464720

colmand

And confirming everything will be deleted afterwards? If so, proceed.
October 7, 2025 at 4:21 pm #17464741

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Yes, it will be removed. Working on it now.

October 7, 2025 at 6:31 pm #17465113

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your patience. I have the copy of the site and I will check and get back to you as quickly as possible.

October 8, 2025 at 8:06 pm #17468876

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. I cannot find a solution for this and I will have to escalate this to our 2nd Tier Support for further investigation. I will come back to you once I've feedback.

October 9, 2025 at 6:38 pm #17472578

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. Sorry, could you recover the site hidden link one last time? I've accidentally broken it while preparing the report.

October 9, 2025 at 7:29 pm #17472724

colmand

Done
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 pm #17475555

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your patience. I've escalated this to our 2nd Tier Support and I will come back to you once I've feedback.

October 14, 2025 at 8:30 am #17482327

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your patience. I have some feedback, and all you need to do would be to remove the suffix as shown in the attached screen recording hidden link . Could you try and let me know how it goes?

October 14, 2025 at 9:03 pm #17485373
colmand

I've made the updates to the category urls in staging as well as production. it looks like it resolved the issues.

In the category page, I see under Count for German, I see one for blog, two for case studies, and 4 for research.

But when I click into those, nothing show up. Except for one research which is correct.

How do I see the pages associated to those categories in those languages?

New threads created by Kor and linked to this one are listed below:

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/missing-translated-posts-from-translated-categories/

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October 15, 2025 at 9:20 am #17486182

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. It looks like you're referring to another issue. I've split the ticket here https://wpml.org/forums/topic/missing-translated-posts-from-translated-categories/ so that we can follow up. As for this ticket, you can mark it as resolved.

October 15, 2025 at 3:45 pm #17487686

colmand

Hi, this is related to the original issue I've mentioned. Which is, posts are showing up when it shouldn't. We didn't create the blog post for other languages but URLs are being created. We still have not figured out why that is the case.
October 15, 2025 at 3:52 pm #17487691

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. If you're referring to the blog de and blog it posts, those are actually translated category slugs. WPML automatically appends “de” or “it” to categories that share the same name across languages and this is expected behavior. Besides this, are you still seeing any categories being translated with different URL slugs?
October 15, 2025 at 6:10 pm #17488191

colmand

So the solution given was to remove -de, etc, in different languages. But if you're saying that WPML will automatically create that again, then what would be the solution?

I have a vague memory of removing -de etc. in the past, but it seems like it comes back.

So how do we avoid that?

Or again, the original question is, why are these pages being created at all? We did not initiate the creation of these pages on a website in a different language.
October 16, 2025 at 10:45 am #17489783

Kor
WPML Supporter since 08/2022

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)

Thanks for your reply. These are categories, not pages or posts. When you translate a category but keep the same name, WPML automatically adds language suffixes like “-de” or “-it.” You can translate taxonomies by following the steps here: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-post-categories-and-custom-taxonomies/#edit-taxonomy-translations
October 16, 2025 at 2:01 pm #17490825

colmand

Hi,

So you're saying deleting -de does not resolve the problem then? It will always come back?

Can you help with my original issue? Which is, why are pages being created in other languages when it shouldn't? Not only that, we are unable to see those URLs in the back and remove them.

Thank you,