I am trying to:
I have not yet translated all my products to all languages. I have chosen to 'Translatable - use translation if available or fallback to default language' on Products. It works on the products but then when a visitor filter by colour on the translated products are visible. I would also the English version of the not yet translated ones to be visibale.
Link to a page where the issue can be seen: hidden link
I expected to see: hidden link
Instead, I got: very few products when filter by attribute.
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )Italian (Italiano )
Timezone: Europe/Rome (GMT+02:00)
Hello!
This is actually expected and let me explain you why.
Whenever you set to use the fallback version, we just "remove" the language filter and modify the URL to show it as if it was a different URL.
However, while this is ok for a simple loop, filtering content will never work because the product doesn't really exist and the filters are filtering by an attribute in a specific language which of course will never return a value if the actual product doesn't exist in the database.
A solution for this problem is to go to WPML > Settings > Post Type translation > Product > Set to "translatable - only show translated items" and then duplicate the product instead.
you can even duplicate them in bulk by going to WPML > Translation Management and selecting "duplicate" in the last step of the "translaton dashboard" tab.
