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Last updated by Nigel 1 year, 3 months ago.

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March 11, 2024 at 2:08 pm #15395840

jonG-15

Hello Support team, I have an issue here I changed the default language from English to Icelandic and now the problem is with the translations, where the home page in the navigation menu and page itself is FORSÍÐA but it keeps showing Heim, of which the page name is FORSÍÐA and we have tried to search in the strings where Heim or Home in English so that we replace Heim with FORSÍÐA in the navigation menu which is the header, but we seem not to have found it. Your quick response and help or guidance on this will be highly appreciated. see screenshot.

March 11, 2024 at 2:18 pm #15395852

Nigel
WPML Supporter since 02/2016

Timezone: Europe/Madrid (GMT+02:00)

Hi there

Checking your site I see that although your default language is Icelandic and second language is English, you only have "English" menus with Icelandic texts. (See screenshot.)

Before being too concerned about individual menu items I suggest you set up the menus so that you have menus in the default language (Icelandic; you can change the language of existing menus with the language switcher you can see in the screenshot).

Then you can decide whether to translate them to English.

If your menu only contains internal links (e.g. to pages of your site) then it would not be necessary to translate them, because the translated page names would automatically be shown in the menu.

If you have some static texts, including edited labels to internal links, then you would need to translate the menu.

See https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-menus/

When you have the menus working in Icelandic and English, if you still have a problem with that specific text let me know.

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