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Last updated by Marcel 1 week, 5 days ago.

Assisted by: Marcel.

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May 6, 2026 at 5:19 pm #18018451

kathleenV

Hi,

We have an issue with the translations of the attributes of woo commerce products. The problem is that the attributes are used as filter in de sidebar, but every time we make some adjustments, they disappear. Also, not all attributes in the sidebar are visible in de different languages.

May 7, 2026 at 12:37 pm #18020327

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

Thank you for contacting WPML support. I'd be happy to assist you on this issue.

Did the suggestions provided by Maiya helped? If not, can you please record a video showing the issue so I can quickly debug this?

Further, To debug this issue further, I would need to check your site settings once, for this I would need temporary access (wp-admin and ftp) to your site.

So could you please provide me with those details, you will find the needed fields for this below the comment area when you log in to leave your next reply.
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Note:
Backup your sites before providing the credentials or if possible provide credentials for the test site

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 12, 2026 at 7:22 am #18029107

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

I checked the following two urls:
hidden link
hidden link

I checked two widgets, Aantal aders & Kabelsectie, both are showing the same numbers of attributes, which shows it's synchronised, am I missing something to replicate the issue?

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 12, 2026 at 12:09 pm #18030170

kathleenV

Hi

I add 4 screenshots with explanation what go's wrong.
You can take this product:
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to check and see what's not working.

Kind regards

Kathleen Verhelle

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May 13, 2026 at 5:13 am #18031651

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

Can you please go to hidden link and click on syncronize product variations and see if it helps?

Further, regarding the translations, I suggest you to go to WPML->String Translation and translate the strings only from Widgets domain, this will fix the issue. hidden link

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 13, 2026 at 6:44 am #18031750

kathleenV

Hi Shekhar

Again I added all the translations in de widgets domain.
I also did synchronize the product variations.

It seems that the widgets translations are showing correct.
Only is there one widget still not visible in the English language 'kabelsectie = dutch translation'. The other languages do show the "kabelsectie-widget".

Also I noticed that in product detail the attributes title ( wich are the same translations like the widget bar) ar again set to dutch language, so translations are missing.

We did translate over and over again but ik keeps returning to de default language NL ( Dutch).

Kind regards

Kathleen

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May 13, 2026 at 6:55 am #18031798

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

Could you please check if the widgets are displaying correctly now? I removed and re-added the widgets on my end, and that seems to have helped.

Regarding the attribute labels on the product page, they are loaded from the attribute label translations available under WPML → Taxonomy Translation. The widget title is translated separately as Widget Title, so both locations need to be translated for everything to display properly.

I look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 13, 2026 at 7:21 am #18031827

kathleenV

We did that several times, and now I did it again just to check if it's solved now, but no luck. The French and German translation are still missing.

Also the attributes were all translated and I see now that some translations are missing again.

That is the problem that we experienced for a few weeks now. Translations keep dissapearing, no matter how much we ad them again..

Kind regards

Kathleen

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May 13, 2026 at 11:03 am #18032632

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

I am little confused here, I see the widgets are showing properly now, is this about product page labels, in that case, I see it's showing properly here: hidden link

Am I missing something?

Thanks

May 13, 2026 at 12:56 pm #18033182

kathleenV

I added the screenshots of French and German.
Englisch is okay, but the attributes title keeps returning to the default language Dutch ( NL) for the French and German translations

I hope you can see the problem? We translated over and over, but ik keeps coming back to NL.

Kind regards

Kathleen

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May 13, 2026 at 1:04 pm #18033270

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

If I go here; hidden link

Choose Product Conductor type and check the labels translations, it's missing? Can you add translations here and see if it helps?

I suggest you to only translate from this section to attribute labels, this should fix the issue.

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 13, 2026 at 1:30 pm #18033391

kathleenV

I did check all the taxonomy this morning in the section you suggest.
But I did like you ask just a minute ago, so translated the "Product conductor type". Translations are no showing in French and German

May 14, 2026 at 12:28 pm #18035771

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

I can see the issue, can you please follow the below steps and see if it helps

- go to wp-content/plugins/wpml-string-translation/classes/filters/autoregister/class-wpml-autoregister-save-strings.php

Search for the following code

$flag = 0 === strpos( $domain, 'admin_texts_' )
					|| WPML_ST_Blog_Name_And_Description_Hooks::is_string( $name );

and replace with

$flag = 0 === strpos( $domain, 'admin_texts_' ) || 0 === strpos( $domain, 'default' ) || 0 === strpos( $domain, 'WordPress' )
					|| WPML_ST_Blog_Name_And_Description_Hooks::is_string( $name );

Once this is done, you can go to WPML->String translation delete the existing translations and translate it from WPML->Taxonomy Translations, this should fix the issue.

Look forward to your reply.

Thanks

May 18, 2026 at 6:55 am #18041619

kathleenV

Hi Shekhar

We had a holiday period here in Belgium, so excuse me for the late reply.
Do you mean by FTP?
Will it be okay if the WPML is updated in the future?

Kind regards

May 18, 2026 at 10:30 am #18042380

Shekhar Bhandari
WPML Supporter since 03/2015

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Asia/Kathmandu (GMT+05:45)

Hello there,

Yes, you will need to make those changes using FTP.

Please note that you will also need to apply the same changes again after updates, at least until a permanent fix is released.

Thanks