[Waiting for user confirmation] Author page translator

Hello,

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While you wait for my colleague to take over the ticket, let me try to help you with the issue quickly.

Make sure post exist for that language for that author, if there is no post in EN then WordPress does not create author page. In short, make sure you have translated posts from this author to other languages also.

Regards,
Drazen

Hello,

Thank you for the provided details!

The redirect works from
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to
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as there are existing Arabic posts.

This page does not yet have any posts:
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I suggest you first translate the posts and then test again.

If you still run into language switcher redirect issues after all posts have been published in all languages, we can take further steps from there.

Best regards
Andreas

Hello,

I created a test site using the Twenty Twenty-One Theme and WPML, and I can not confirm this issue.

In my example, the site's default language is English, and I have one post in German.

If I revise the author page in German, I see one post as expected, and there is no language switcher option, as the English author page has no posts:
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This means, on your site, it is unexpected that the WPML languages switcher offers a language option if the translated author page has no posts.

My test page:
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Now, the unexpected behavior on your site could be caused by the theme or by custom code used in your child theme.

Could you please install the latest version of the Foxiz Theme on the following test site, so that we can test if this issue if theme-related?

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Best regards
Andreas

Would it be possible for you to install the latest version of the Foxiz Theme on my sandbox, so that we can try to replicate the issue there and then take further steps?

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My apologies for the delay in answering.

As I mentioned earlier, on my test site, WPML will not display language options inside the language switcher if an author page has no posts.

In your case, you see a language option, as at WPML > Settings > Post Types Translation, the type "Posts" is set to "Translatable use translation if available or fallback to default language".

Your example author only has one post in Arabic:
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If I now use the language switcher on this page to switch to another language, I will always land on the respective homepage.

This is expected as long as the archive has no posts.

You can use this hook to solve this issue:
https://wpml.org/wpml-hook/icl_ls_languages/

Example for placing into your Code Snippets plugin:

add_filter( 'icl_ls_languages', 'wpml_author_switcher_fix', 10, 1 );

function wpml_author_switcher_fix( $languages ) {
    if ( is_author() ) {
        $author = get_queried_object();
        $author_slug = $author->user_nicename;

        foreach ( $languages as $lang_code => &$lang ) {
            // Build the correct URL using the current domain and language slug
            $lang['url'] = '/' . $lang_code . '/author/' . $author_slug . '/';
        }
    }
    return $languages;
}

What This Does
- Overrides the default switcher URLs on author pages.

- Forces each language switcher link to resolve to the author archive, even if no posts exist in that language.

- Prevents redirection to the homepage (which happens when WPML suppresses empty archives).

Absolutely, sorry about that!

Please try this:

add_filter( 'icl_ls_languages', 'wpml_author_switcher_fix', 10, 1 );

function wpml_author_switcher_fix( $languages ) {
    if ( is_author() ) {
        $author = get_queried_object();
        $author_slug = $author->user_nicename;
        $default_lang = apply_filters( 'wpml_default_language', null );

        foreach ( $languages as $lang_code => &$lang ) {
            if ( $lang_code === $default_lang ) {
                // No language prefix for default language
                $lang['url'] = '/author/' . $author_slug . '/';
            } else {
                $lang['url'] = '/' . $lang_code . '/author/' . $author_slug . '/';
            }
        }
    }
    return $languages;
}