Please assign this ticket to Ilyes: When I search my name (Arnaud Homburger) on Google in France (using a VPN), I see some posts/pages with titles showing half in french and half in english. What is going on? (See attached)
Languages: English (English )French (Français )Arabic (العربية )
Timezone: Pacific/Easter (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
That's actually pretty normal behavior. Basically, search engines like Google try to show the most relevant language version first based on where they think the user is or what language they think the user prefers. So if you're showing up as browsing from France, Google will prioritize the French pages (hence why the french agent page is first displayed on first page : hidden link).
But as you go deeper into the search results, you'll start to see the English versions too. It's not really a problem—it's just the way the search engine is balancing languages based on what it thinks is most relevant.
It would be an issue if the page is first shown in English, that's when google has to do a recrawling, but I checked your settings, everything seems to be working as expected.
I think you did not understand the issue here. Please review carefully the screenshot I sent in my initial request. You will see that for the same result, you will read a part in french and a part in english.
Exemple: Processus de location, In Miami, Your Real Estate Project begins here. The first part of the title is in french and the second part in english.
I don't see this issue on the first Google results but from page 4, 5, 6, I start seing this issue. I believe a title should only be in one language, not 2 different languages for the same title, it does not make any sens.
Languages: English (English )French (Français )Arabic (العربية )
Timezone: Pacific/Easter (GMT-05:00)
Hey,
I see the issue now, I thought it was an entire other case,
It turns out these pages are archive pages that use Yoast placeholders when calling for the page title : hidden link
These placeholders will show whatever content is set there, for exemple, title_term will load the blog title, and when I check the blog title, I see it is not translated : hidden link
I have translated it and it is showing the correct title in the backend : hidden link
It takes a while for google to show the changes though, this is called re-crawling.
As mentioned here : hidden link
It can take from a couple of days to weeks, but I can confirm that that title is translated.
What I would suggest is to double check that all the strings that are showing in the wrong language are translated under String Translation : hidden link
Understood, thank you for your assistance. However, I am now seeing a mix of French and English on all my English property pages. I clearly remember dealing with this exact issue several times in the past, and I honestly cannot believe I am still having to deal with it.
My experience using WPML with Houzez has been a nightmare. I truly regret having decided to move to this solution and having spent so much time on it. These recurring translation issues have affected my performance in 2025 far beyond what you can imagine.
For this reason, I am no longer willing to spend more time fixing these issues myself. I am asking that WPML take ownership of this problem and fix the translations for me.
Ilyes, could you please take a look and help resolve this?
Thank you for that. What would also help is understanding why this is happening, so we can prevent it from happening again in the future. This situation is extremely frustrating, especially with property listings, as I share them with clients on a daily basis. Showing mixed languages on listings is simply not professional.
That being said, I wish you a happy holiday as well.
Since I promote properties on a daily basis, I cannot allow my website to look unprofessional with mixed languages for too long. So, I went ahead and fixed the translations myself.
Please see the attached screenshots showing where I updated the translations. As we have discussed several times, the Houzez theme has its own translation tools under Theme Options. My understanding is that because I am using the WPML plugin to translate the Houzez website, the Houzez theme translations should not be touched. However, for some reason, many terms in that section were translated from English to French again (Not my action).
As I have already done at least 10 times since purchasing WPML about a year ago, I had to undo all translations in that section so that my English properties display only in English. This process took me about 40 minutes this time, which means roughly 400 minutes, or more than 6 hours, spent retranslating the same section over time.
At this point, I would really like to fix this issue once and for all. I am sure you can understand my frustration. It is simply not sustainable to keep correcting the same problem repeatedly.
One additional detail I wanted to mention: in the WordPress Dashboard under Updates, it is sometimes suggested to update translations along with plugins. I remember clicking on "update translation" recently. It is no longer showing for now. I am not certain whether this could be the cause of the issue, but I wanted to flag it so you can evaluate whether it may be related. I tend to run all available updates when I see a notification.
I would truly appreciate your help in resolving this permanently.
As we are approaching Christmas, I hope you are able to enjoy the holidays with your loved ones. I wish you a happy holidays, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Languages: English (English )French (Français )Arabic (العربية )
Timezone: Pacific/Easter (GMT-05:00)
Happy new years Arnaud,
Thank you for your patience,
My theory here is that this is a bit different from any other issues so far as we never tested how this theme behaves if you are using different language than English as the default language.
What I think happens here is that some updates force all your French fields that you already set before back to english, I'm currently testing this theory with different versions of houzez, I will get back to you once confirmed.
And for the "update translation" button, it is only necessary if one of the plugins/theme have loaded new .mo files (aka, new translations where loaded by another plugin or houzez), it is normal to not see this every update.
I believe English is already set as the default language on my site, so I’m not sure I fully understand your point. Could you please clarify?
From what I understand, for my site to work properly, the translation section in the Houzez theme should not be translated from english into franch, and all the words there must remain in English. However, sometimes, some terms are still being translated into French automatically, without any action on my side. This seems different from what you’re describing above, and I just want to make sure we’re aligned and moving in the right direction to resolve the issue.
Regarding the “Update translation” button, if I see it, is it safe for me to click it?
Languages: English (English )French (Français )Arabic (العربية )
Timezone: Pacific/Easter (GMT-05:00)
Hi,
In here : hidden link
This built-in translation tab is meant for users who use languages other than English as the default language, so it should not be used in your case nor these fields should be translated from there as you were already aware.
Then all these fields are translatable from String Translation to french here : hidden link
I'm not entirely sure how they were translated from Houzez translation tab but if I recall correctly, initially, these were translated by mistake when you first reported this issue.
In this case, either some of the fields were not corrected back to english (likely I missed them the first time) or some of the fields are getting translated to french by themselves (very unlikely and I cannot replicate so far)
I see no trace of any other french fields in houzez backend and from my experience with this, I doubt it to be a persistant issue, just a field we missed from back then. But I will keep an eye and test with different houzez versions trying to trigger such behavior.
And for the update translation button, it applies the changes authors made on their own translations, it is not "required" and it is safe to use.
If I understand correctly, all the fields available for translation in the built-in translation tab can also be translated through string translations. For each field, it shows in Admin as “Admin text Houzez Option” and in Name as “Houzez Option CF feature label.” Does that mean none of these fields should be translated into French via String Translation?
From your experience, you mentioned that this is unlikely to be a persistent issue and that perhaps one field was simply missed back then. However, I don’t understand why nearly half of the fields in the built-in translation tab have, for the 10th time at least, suddenly reverted back to French. You're speaking about just 1 field you missed, but like I said, it's many fields every time that are reverting to french, and that takes me 30-40 min to retranslate manually into english every time it happens.
I’m concerned this will continue to happen, especially since the issue has occurred multiple times already and the root cause hasn’t been identified. Could you explain why you believe it won’t happen again? I really want to avoid repeating this process multiple times, it’s inefficien, confusing, time consuming and frustrating...
Regarding the “Update Translation” button, I’m not entirely sure what it does, but if you confirm it’s safe to use, I’ll continue using it when needed.
Also, I am getting fake users all day long creating accounts into my site (see screenshot attached). I have to delete them everyday. What do you recommend for that?
Thank you for your assistance!
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