Problem: The client is experiencing an issue where the WPML plugin is creating additional paths like 'https://explorertom.com/explorertom.com' when translating their German travel blog into English. Solution: We recommend checking the site for links that are missing the protocol (e.g., href="explorertom.com") which browsers treat as relative URLs. This can result in incorrect paths that SEO crawlers might follow. Here are the steps to resolve the issue: - Search the content, menus, footer, widgets, and theme files for such links. - Update them to full URLs, for example,
https://explorertom.com
or
/en/
where necessary. - Clear caches and re-run the crawl to ensure the issue is resolved. If after these steps the problem persists, please contact us for further assistance. Additionally, we highly recommend checking related known issues at https://wpml.org/known-issues/, verifying the version of the permanent fix, and confirming that you have installed the latest versions of themes and plugins. If the solution provided here becomes irrelevant due to updates or does not apply to your case, please open a new support ticket.
