Custom Permalink Not Updating When Using WPML Advanced Translation Editor

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Last updated by Kor 2 weeks, 3 days ago.

Assisted by: Kor.

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November 7, 2025 at 11:11 am #17556798
Marketing Tech	Background of the issue: We’ve encountered an issue when updating custom permalinks for translated pages. When we try to update the permalink through the WPML Advanced Translation Editor (ATE), the changes do not take effect — the permalink remains the same. However, if we update the permalink directly through the WordPress Editor, the update works as expected. Could you please check why the permalink changes made in the WPML ATE are not being applied, and let us know how we can resolve this issue? We tried to update the link of the Language Academy page PT-BR link to hidden link but after updating we are now redirected to hidden link Symptoms: Permalink changes made in the WPML ATE are not being applied, and the page redirects to an incorrect URL. Questions: Could you please check why the permalink changes made in the WPML ATE are not being applied? How can we resolve the issue of permalinks not updating through WPML ATE?
November 7, 2025 at 11:28 am #17556865
Kor WPML Supporter since 08/2022 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your patience. Here is the ticket and please let me know how it goes.
November 11, 2025 at 5:10 am #17564633
Marketing Tech	Hello I did another test with this page: hidden link I changed it to hidden link but when accessing that link I returned to hidden link You can test and try editing the Custom Permalink here: hidden link
November 12, 2025 at 7:21 pm #17572698
Kor WPML Supporter since 08/2022 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thanks for your reply. I cannot find a solution for this, and I will wait for your SQL dump and the zipped copy of your entire site for further investigation. If required, I will escalate this to our 2nd Tier Support.

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