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Last updated by Paola Mendiburu 2 weeks ago.

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February 5, 2026 at 2:33 pm

dimitrisD-7

Hello,
I am experiencing critical issues that seem to stem from database corruption or sync failures, which prevent me from using the automatic translation services I have paid for.

1. Sidebar Widget Issue: On my English Shop page, the Category Sidebar widget only displays the "Uncategorized" category. All other translated categories are missing from the sidebar, even though they are translated and contain products.

2. Menu Synchronization Failure: I have synchronized the main menu, but the English menu does not display correctly like the Greek one. Furthermore, when I am in the WordPress admin area, the menu items appear in Greek even for the English menu.

I previously spoke with your support via chat, and the agent stated: "I've deleted these translated menus and synchronized them again but I get the same result. Despite menu sync showing the correct items, they become Greek again. This will also require debugging; something is off in the database and will require investigating, I'm afraid."

Since your own support agent identified a database-level issue, I need you to perform a deep investigation. My product categories are set to translatable, yet they don't appear in Translation Management, and the menu/sidebar sync is completely broken.

3. Product Brands Display Issue (Critical): I have a page built with Elementor that uses a widget to display all Product Brands.
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• All brands have been translated into English.
• I have already fixed a permalink mismatch where the "Product brand base" was inconsistent.
• Even after deleting and recreating the English page from scratch, the widget only displays 3 brands out of the dozens that exist and are translated.
• It seems the database is failing to associate the translated brands with the English archive, or they are incorrectly marked as "empty" despite containing products.

February 5, 2026 at 4:52 pm #17797126

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

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

Hi there!

Could you please install Porto theme in the following test site?
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That way I can try to reproduce the issue with the widget to send it to the compatibility team.

February 6, 2026 at 8:05 am #17798361

dimitrisD-7

Hello Paola,

I have already installed both the Porto parent theme and the Porto Child theme on the test site.

Please let me know if you need me to add the license key as well to proceed with the testing.

February 6, 2026 at 5:16 pm #17800808

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

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

Hi there!

I have tried to reproduce on the test site but it is working properly:
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I think the widget that you are using is different as this one doesn´t allow me to order.

Do you think it is missing a plugin?

February 9, 2026 at 8:50 am #17804053

dimitrisD-7

Hello Paola,

Yes, I see that it is indeed a different widget. However, the issue appears to be fixed on our website now.

Could you please look into the other two issues from the original ticket?

1) Menu Management: You managed to fix the menu in the English version, but when I navigate to Appearance -> Menus while on the English version of the site, there is no menu there for me to manage if needed. How did you enable/display it in the header?

2) Brands Issue: I would also like us to check the 3rd issue regarding the Brands, as it is critical for the proper functionality of this specific e-shop.

Thank you for your help.

February 9, 2026 at 3:23 pm #17805827

dimitrisD-7

Hello Paola,

I fixed the issue with the Brands. Could you check the issue below?

1) Menu Management: You managed to fix the menu in the English version, but when I navigate to Appearance -> Menus while on the English version of the site, there is no menu there for me to manage if needed. How did you enable/display it in the header?

Thank you for your help.

February 10, 2026 at 12:29 pm #17808844

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

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

I only deleted the translated menu, do you give me permission to translate the menu in english? I need first to check if some setting are correct

February 10, 2026 at 3:10 pm #17809836

dimitrisD-7

Yes, of course. You can translate the menu.

Thank you for your help.

February 11, 2026 at 2:23 pm #17813078

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

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

The problem was related to the custom field settings for the menu.

I have now set those fields to “Don’t translate” in WPML → Settings → Custom Fields (after enabling Show system fields).

Then, I resynchronized the menu, and it is now displaying correctly.

I’ve also recorded a video explaining the steps:
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February 12, 2026 at 8:36 am #17815440

dimitrisD-7

Hi,

Thank you for the update. While the English menu is now displaying (it was missing before), the Mega Menu functionality is no longer working correctly in the English version.

Previously, even if the menu had issues, the Mega Menu layout was displaying properly. Now, it just shows as a simple list.

Furthermore, I tried to manually re-enable the Mega Menu settings for each individual menu item in the English menu, but the system does not allow me to save or activate those settings.

It seems that setting the custom fields to “Don’t translate” might have locked the Mega Menu parameters from the translated menu items.

Could you please check how we can have both the translated menu visible AND the Mega Menu functionality active?

Thank you.

February 12, 2026 at 11:14 am #17816347

Paola Mendiburu
WPML Supporter since 11/2020

Languages: English (English ) Spanish (Español ) Italian (Italiano )

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

I have put megamenu as copy, then I have translate the menu again to english and now appears correctly. Please check.