Background of the issue:
I'm trying to translate a fairly long blog post from English to Japanese using WPML AI and the ATE interface. Although the ATE indicates the progress to be 100%, the translation status never reaches the 'completed' status. I've tried several troubleshooting options, to no avail. The issue can be seen at: hidden link
Symptoms:
The translation progress shows 100% in ATE, but the status never changes to 'completed'. The translation cog does not change to a pencil icon, and the direct link to the language in the dropdown menu still links to 'post-new.php' instead of the Japanese translation.
Questions:
Why does the translation status not change to 'completed' even though the progress is 100%?
Why does the translation cog not change to a pencil icon?
Why does the direct link still point to 'post-new.php' instead of the Japanese translation?
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I have tried to recreate this issue on a new WordPress install while using your post's content but the translation using a test engine worked as expected here:
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I can offer to try to create a local copy of your site and investigate further, as this issue might be connected to another plugin or the active theme.
The same issue happens today for another blog post:
"The ultimate guide to Apple Search Ads in 2025" hidden link
I notice a lot of ATE errors are displayed here - but I'm not clear as to what they refer (xliff?): hidden link
UPDATE: it seems like now the issue were silently resolved. I restarted the translation from the Translation Management Dashboard, and this time it came through, and also solved the first issue. Could it be due to a bottleneck on your side?
What I also did in between was reduce the size of the option "icl_sitepress_settings" which was 890ko heavy due to ACFML glue plugin. It was full of old unused ACF field options. To clean it up I used this script: hidden link. It did work wonder as the option now weights only 286ko, which also speeds up our CMS a lot, since that option is autoloaded on every single user request. I'm wondering if this perhaps caused the requests to time out ?
Perhaps that's worth looking into to improve WPML ?
I am writing to inform you that there exists a development ticket for the reported task, but it is currently unscheduled as there were not many reported issues.
I have added this ticket as an upvote for the task to achieve a higher priority.
If for now using the mentioned Github Repo solves the issue, then please consider applying it in case you run into any issues.
