Our website uses language paths and is configured to have a language path for the main language. I just discovered that all pages in the main language are accessible with AND without the path.
Examples: hidden link and hidden link
hidden link and hidden link
And so on... That shouldn't be the case, right?
For some custom post types, it works correctly though, e. g. hidden link (here, opening the URL without the /de/ part forwards correctly to /de/).
I would like to ask for temporary access to your test site’s wp-admin and FTP to investigate the issue further.
If necessary, I may need to replicate your site locally. To do this, I will temporarily install a plugin called “Duplicator” on your site, which will enable me to create a copy of your site and its content. Once the problem has been resolved, I will delete the local site. Please let me know if you agree to this.
It is important to note that you should back up your site and database before proceeding, and you can use a plugin like Duplicator for this purpose. Here’s a link to the plugin: http://wordpress.org/plugins/duplicator/
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After further checking, I believe that's how it works with default post types, and it won't affect SEO because the canonical URL points to the right place in both pages:
<link rel="canonical" href="hidden link" />
However, just to make sure of it, I have escalated it to our second tier team to see why isn't it the case with the custom post types.
Thank you for your feedback. I'm looking forward to the response of the second tier support. Having a lot of content "twice" doesn't feel right, even if it is correctly set up for SEO.
It was a tricky issue and our second tier team found a workaround that I recommend testing on your staging site first, see if you get any other errors and share your results.
After doing a backup of your site and database, there is a patch you can apply to the class-wpml-canonicals-hooks.php file, found in the ../wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/classes/canonicals/ folder.
