Background of the issue:
We have a website that we are setting up for use with WPML and it uses the Custom Permalinks plugin for mapping the permalink for the categories.
I have the following versions installed: WPML: v4.6.12, Custom Permalinks: v2.7.0.
These were added when creating the categories initially and show as per the below DEFAULT LANGUAGE.
DEFAULT LANGUAGE - WORKS (English)
/industry-sectors/
/industry-sectors/infrastructure/
When viewing the 'Taxonomies Permalinks' for the Custom Permalinks plugins, these are the values shown
CUSTOM PERMALINKS - DOESN'T WORK
/en/industry-sectors/
/en/industry-sectors/infrastructure/
CURRENT SETUP FOR TRANSLATED LINKS - WORKS
/fr/secteurs-dactivite/
CURRENT SETUP FOR TRANSLATED LINKS - DOESN'T WORK
/fr/secteurs-dactivite/infrastructure-fr/
When using the Language selector in the menu and switching from the default language to French, this is the URL which appears is shown when I hover the cursor over the French flag.
DEFAULT - /industry-sectors/infrastructure/
SWITCH URL - /fr/category/secteurs-dactivite/infrastructure-fr/
While the switch URL above does show the data, but the permalink doesn't work as expected.
I investigated and the certified plugin states that it should work as expected, and I would hate to have to manually add each taxonomy permalink.
Symptoms:
The permalink for translated taxonomies/categories does not work as expected when using the Custom Permalinks plugin with WPML.
Questions:
Why doesn't the permalink for translated taxonomies/categories work as expected?
Is there a way to automatically map the permalinks for translated taxonomies/categories without manually adding each one?
The taxonomy/category for the translated French was connected to the default language as expected.
For the default languages these two (2) categories (Industry Sectors & Infrastructure) they have Custom Permalinks set as /industry-sectors/ & /industry-sectors/infrastructure/
As shown in the uploaded images
"wpml-cp-industry-sectors-en.png"
"wpml-cp-industry-sectors-infrastructure-en"
For the translated categories which should be served at these slugs/permalinks
/fr/secteurs-dactivite/ & /fr/secteurs-dactivite/infrastructure-fr/
When I viewed the translated categories
As shown in the uploaded images
"wpml-cp-industry-sectors-fr.png"
This works using the default setup
However, this didn't, so I manually adjusted the permalink for this as a test
"wpml-cp-industry-sectors-infrastructure-fr.png"
Which worked as shown in this image
"wpml-cp-industry-sectors-infrastructure-fr-manual-added-cp.png"
As previously mentioned, I'm trying to avoid having to update/add a custom permalink for each language.
I'm not sure if this is a potential indicator with an issue in WPML, but if you look at the uploaded image "wpml-cp-investment-type-energy-en-menu-default-cp.png"
You will see how when attempting to switch from a category page in the default English to French, that the URL link as shown in the bottom left corner shows the default WordPress URL format which includes the word "category" (categorie - French)
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If you edit the categories that you shared you will notice that the ID language includes the kategorie in the custom permalink field.
See here:
hidden link
Removing manually resolves the issue, which is what I believe you have been doing so far from my understanding.
If you create a new category and translate it, are you able to reproduce this behavior?
Unfortunately I do not believe that there is a way to remove /kategori/ in bulk, at least not from WPML. You could tinker with a find-and-replace plugin for example and see if that would work.
I have created a new category and assigned a custom permalink.
Then I translated it as requested.
This however after the translation and sync of hierarchy, it didn't provide the correct custom permalink with the word category removed.
I will just handle manually updating the categories as I add a new translation.
I did have another issue where I was expecting that I would have a different Sitemap for each language as per the below URLs hidden link hidden link
However, the Indonesian version shown above doesn't work. Upon looking at the "Page Sitemap" from the existing/default language - hidden link
I can see that it has the translated version for the home page listed there.
I wanted to verify that this is the correct behavior?
Yes, that is the expected behavior. The only time you will have a separate URL for the sitemap is if your site is using a different domain per language.
One last item, within Custom Permalinks after the initial Taxonomy translations, the default language has the following permalinks listed within the Custom Permalinks plugins
/en/industry-sectors/
/en/investment-types/
However, the links don't work and revert to what is set within the category settings of
/industry-sectors/
/investment-types/
I can see what you mean by reviewing it, however, the site is not set up to use the directory in the default language. You can confirm or adjust that within WPML->Languages, therefore it is expected that the /en/ will be stripped.
Did the site use directories before at some point for the default language?
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