Background of the issue:
I am trying to set up a secondary domain for a German translation using WPML. The main domain with English translation is softech42.com, and the secondary domain with German translation is softech42.de. I have set up the .de domain as parked, and it is supposed to show the content of softech42.com without redirecting.
Symptoms:
The domain softech42.de is showing as an invalid domain in the settings, even though it is set up as parked and is working fine.
Questions:
Why is the domain softech42.de showing as invalid in the settings?
How can I ensure that the parked domain softech42.de displays the content of softech42.com correctly without redirecting?
Also, sometimes the validation process produced an incorrect false message. It says that it is an invalid domain when, in practice, everything works. In those cases, you should uncheck the Validate Domain on Save and try again.
You can also check if you configured things correctly by temporarily deactivating WPML on your site. In this case, if things are configured correctly, hidden link should display the same content as hidden link without a redirect. In the browser's address bar, you should still see hidden link.
I hope this information is helpful to you.
Please share your site's Debug information if you need further help with this issue. You can read about it here.
As I explained earlier, I have follow the exact same steps as provided in documentation link and this domain hidden link is showing the exact same content as main website hidden link without redirecting but it still showing invalid domain. So I'm pretty sure that the issue is with the plugin or the documentation link isn't the correct one as everything is working perfectly according to documentation but INVALID DOMAIN ERROR IS STILL THERE.
Great as it is working now but not all strings are getting translated and when i try to update the translation it doesn't show me
for example:
1. on main homepage hidden link there is a heading "Nearshore software teams. Built for German quality standards." and it shows the same on German Home hidden link and when i try to edit the german page it doesn't show me this string, what to do here?
2. Headers also have same issue and not showing on german version,
BTW I'm using automatic translation and i think i should be able to edit the translation using normal elementor version like the polylang plugin allows?
New threads created by Itamar and linked to this one are listed below:
I'm glad that the issue with the ticket is fixed now. I can also confirm that the German domain gets validated.
In our forum, we try to keep one issue per ticket. Therefore, I've split the other ticket and created a new ticket with this issue. Please see the latest ticket here.
