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Last updated by Dražen 1 year, 4 months ago.

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August 30, 2023 at 3:05 pm #14314767

mattiasL-9

Hi WPML,

Im a bit frustrated now, because an issue has appeard again... but instead of one page (that it was last time) it is now on the whole site!

And that is that somehow, WPML has switched the domain languages, again!
And now it is on the whole site...

Thank god thst this site is still a dev site hidden link
but it is not feel good that the site suddenly "brakes".

I guess this has to do with the latest wordpress update?
Sadly this site autoupdates, so the new wordpress update ha already been done.

Do you have any fix for this?

August 31, 2023 at 6:54 am #14317517

Dražen
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Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)

Hello,

I have checked your previous ticket, and as I understand your translation got reverted on 2nd language, so you lost the translation, correct?

This can happen, if you are manually translating the page, but still have enabled the WPML translation editor in the default language, so when you update the default language page, all translations done manually are lost.

Check and make sure you have set the WPML translation editor to OFF and that 2nd language page is not marked as duplicate.

Related docs: https://wpml.org/documentation/translating-your-contents/using-different-translation-editors-for-different-pages/

Regards,
Drazen

August 31, 2023 at 7:06 am #14317563

mattiasL-9

Yes that is correct, i lost the translation the first time.

But now it has reverted to the 2nd language on the whole domain...
I was done a rollback to the prevoius wordpress update, so i would gladly reveieve an update on when its safe to update to the new wordpress version so it dont happen again please.

August 31, 2023 at 7:14 am #14317631

Dražen
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)

Hello,

I do not think this is related to an update, as I said only way this could happen and be caused by WPML, is when you are manually translating but the translated page is still duplicated or you have enabled the WPML editor.

In that case, resaving the default page will revert the translation done manually. The update could have triggered resaving of pages, but I am not sure.

Either way, I advise creating a staging site, following my suggestion from the previous reply, to check if these settings are correct, then try to check for steps that cause issue so we can try to check and help out. Otherwise, there is not much we can do other than guess what might be wrong.

Regards,
Drazen

September 1, 2023 at 11:08 am #14326115

mattiasL-9

Ok i think i got it now.

But the weird part is that all the pages have the WPML editor ON, and this has not happened before, only one page the motocross page.
And the pages have been translated for several months, so there is no page that i have translated recently.

So i think its weird that the whole domain got reverted to the 2nd language.

But should i select the WordPress editor instead on all pages to be on the safe side to avoid this to happen in the future?

I send a screen shot on what the Motocross page back end looks like, and there you can see that the motocross page has WPML editor ON.

WPML editor.JPG
September 1, 2023 at 11:27 am #14326217

Dražen
Supporter

Languages: English (English )

Timezone: Europe/Zagreb (GMT+01:00)

Hello,

thanks for getting back.

Yes, if you're adding translation manually and editing 2nd language pages manually, then you need to select WordPress editor and continue to use that method to add/edit translations.

Hope this helps, let me know if any other questions.

Regards,
Drazen

September 3, 2023 at 2:56 pm #14332017

mattiasL-9

Ok got it thanks.