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December 8, 2025 at 4:46 am #17642731

christopherH-36

I am trying to address an issue where a page is not fully translating. These tickets were previously closed due to inactivity because of internal tasks. I am linking the previous discussion here:

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/page-is-not-translating-correctly/page/2/
https://wpml.org/forums/topic/page-is-not-translation-correctly-re-open/

After a bunch of back-and-forth and testing what worked and what didn’t, the previous support and I agreed that instead of creating a test environment on your side, it’s easier if I just provide it from my end. So I went ahead and set it up, and it’s all ready now. Just let me know where I can drop the access details. Thanks!

This is the page the previous support set up where you can see the issue, a specific field just won’t translate, no matter how many times you run it through automatic translation. It also doesn’t show up in the ATE.

hidden link

The staging site is a replica of hidden link.
The only difference is that the source site is on WP VIP, so they don’t allow SFTP access for security reasons. The staging site, though, is hosted on WP Engine, so I can provide SFTP access if needed. I also installed a file manager plugin for your convenience.

December 8, 2025 at 7:07 am #17642812

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

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

Hi,

I marked your next reply as private so that you can safely add credentials.

Can you also install https://wordpress.org/plugins/pexlechris-adminer/ and send me a screenshot of the specific field that doesn't translate?

December 10, 2025 at 8:01 am #17650371

Bruno Kos
WPML Supporter since 12/2018

Languages: English (English ) German (Deutsch ) French (Français )

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

I am not sure if you tried this already, but what if you change the name of the custom field from "heading" to something else, such as "heading-clone" or similar, so on hidden link, and then open hidden link, make a minor change to it and resave it so that a new translation job is generated?

I am asking because of this:
https://wpml.org/documentation/related-projects/translate-sites-built-with-acf/#frequently-asked-questions

In particular this part:

To ensure fields appear for translation, avoid using the same field name more than once, and don’t start with an underscore (e.g., _custom_field).