Hello,
I know you previously asked me to record a video showing the issue, but unfortunately I cannot do that at the moment because the workflow is extremely time-consuming and the same problem happens every single time regardless of the exact procedure I follow.
No matter how I duplicate the posts or recipe cards, the result is always the same:
WPML eventually changes the language assignment of the recipe cards automatically and incorrectly.
Because of this, I believe the issue is not related to a specific sequence of actions, but rather to the synchronization between WPML and WP Recipe Maker when translated recipe cards are inserted into translated posts.
To summarize, these are the problems I am consistently experiencing:
1. Recipe card language assignments change automatically after inserting translated recipe cards into translated posts. (Image 1)
* Example: Zucchini Flower Frittata hidden link. After inserting the French recipe card into the French post, the original English recipe card may suddenly become assigned to another language.
* Sometimes recipe cards also lose their Parent Name or Parent Language completely.
2. WPML/WPRM creates additional duplicate recipe cards automatically. (Image 1)
* I end up with multiple recipe cards with identical names and timestamps even though I did not create them manually.
3. In translated recipe cards, the “Instructions” section title disappears completely. (Image 2 and Image 3)
* Ingredients display correctly, but the Instructions heading is missing in translated recipes.
4. When I duplicate posts through WPML Translation Dashboard, translated posts are automatically published even if they still contain English content.
* I would instead expect duplicated translations to be created as Drafts automatically.
5. After noticing this behavior, I manually edited the duplicated translated posts and changed them to Draft status myself.
* However, even after saving them as Drafts, I can still see translated frontend URLs that appear publicly accessible. (Image 4)
* The posts are still entirely in English, but they continue to appear as published translations on the frontend.
* This creates serious multilingual SEO concerns because untranslated English content appears under translated language URLs.
I attached screenshots showing these issues inside WP Recipe Maker Manage and on the frontend.
Could you please investigate the synchronization between WPML and WP Recipe Maker in this workflow and advise what the officially recommended procedure should be for multilingual recipe cards?
Thank you.