wpml not working on staging website

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Last updated by Christopher Amirian 1 year, 11 months ago.

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July 7, 2023 at 10:26 pm #13970471
nickS-28	wpml not working on staging website
July 9, 2023 at 2:03 am #13972243
Christopher Amirian WPML Supporter since 07/2020 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi there, As you clicked MOVE option before it sets the staging website as a deleted website and that is why you can not access it anymore. If you want to have staging website you need to click the COPY option. For now the only way to get around this is for you to downgrade WPML to version 6.4.3 and this time select the COPY option: https://wpml.org/download/wpml-multilingual-cms/?section=changelog After that, you can upgrade again to 4.6.4. Thanks.
July 11, 2023 at 7:36 am #14010863
nickS-28	what do you mean with downgrade?
July 11, 2023 at 1:10 pm #14015393
Christopher Amirian WPML Supporter since 07/2020 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi there, Let me explain. The issue is that you had the website added to the staging website before. Then you copied the website to the live version and there you selected the MOVE option when a prompt asked that there is a new domain used. That prompts WPML that the staging website is no longer in use. But you seems to be needing to use the staging website, that is why the only option for you is to click the link mentioned in the screenshot you shared and indicate that the staging website is still there to use. That will do the trick. But if you want to have the option to set back and this time select the correct option of COPY you need to reduce the version of WPML by downgrading it so instead of the screenshot message you will have an option to select COPY. Please consider that in the new version the prompt you see is by design to avoid confusion between the copying and moving of a website. By the way, I wonder why you selected the MOVE option in the first place? There it was indicated that moving means that you do not use the staging anymore, was the messaging misleading or something else so we can identify if there is an improvement is needed for the prompts. Thanks
July 14, 2023 at 8:31 pm #14041431
nickS-28	i just deleted the existing staging and created a new one. this is what I see (see attachment) what do I need to do next to make WPML work properly in the staging environment?
July 15, 2023 at 1:15 pm #14042595
nickS-28	I know adjusted the setting, so it seems, two websites cant be worked on simultaneously. I can only have WPML working correctly on either the production or the development site
July 16, 2023 at 6:22 am #14043683
Christopher Amirian WPML Supporter since 07/2020 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Yerevan (GMT+04:00)	Hi there, Please click the link I attached to the screenshot. It is inside the dialog box you shared. Tell WPML that Staging website is the website you want and for the production select the COPY option. That way you will have both websites available for you. It is not important which one is the copy of which and WPML will work ok. Thanks.

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