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Last updated by Andrey 3 months, 3 weeks ago.

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July 24, 2024 at 4:25 pm #15999521

claireR-4

Background of the issue:
I am trying to translate links. We translate our affiliate links to send to the right language page.

Symptoms:
With the brand new release of the new version of WPML, the process for link translation has a bug. When we click edit to modify the links, it adds 'amp;' to the link which makes the link not work. At the end of our affiliate links, to track campaigns, we have '&cmp=name_destination'. When we click on edit, this section of the link becomes '&cmp=name_destination'. If we don't remove the 'amp;' added by WPML, the final version has no '&' which breaks the link.
We even have one link, where we can't get the system to put the & back.

This is a really big bug, it impacts directly our revenue.

Additionally, the process adds 3 clicks compared to the previous process, which is not efficient.

Questions:
How can I fix the issue where 'amp;' is added to the links when editing the link in the translation?

Below are 3 images:
step 1 - The original link copied by WPML
step 2 - The edited version where it adds the code
step 3 - The saved version, if we did not remove the amp; that shows the & has disappeared

July 24, 2024 at 8:29 pm #16000313

Andrey
Supporter

Languages: English (English ) Russian (Русский )

Timezone: Europe/Kyiv (GMT+02:00)

I’m sorry that you ran into trouble with this.

We are aware of this issue, and it will be fixed. As a temporary solution, you can switch to the previous version of the translation editor when you open a translation. I have attached the screenshot.

https://wpml.org/announcements/2024/07/new-and-improved-advanced-translation-editor/

Advanced-Translation-Editor-WPML.png