Problem: The client is facing two issues: First, a product page translation is not appearing on the live site and redirects to the Spanish home page instead. Second, when translating an article, the content shown in the WPML translator is from a different article. Solution: For the first issue, we identified that it is a known problem where ACF does not delete fields from the post meta table, causing WPML to display incorrect translation jobs. This specifically occurs when a clone field within a Repeater or Layout field uses the "Group" display method. To resolve this, the client can either switch the display method to "Seamless" or manually delete the metadata. We have also informed the ACF team about this for a proper fix.
For the second issue, ACF does not properly delete fields when a row is removed, leaving clone field data in the database. The client can use the whatwedo ACF cleaner plugin to clean up the database, as suggested in the ACF forum.
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Problem:
When I translate a website in a new language, I don't want my URL(slug) to be translated into the new language. I want to keep the same.
Solution:
- Go to WPML=>Settings => Translated documents options=> and select "Translate (this will include the slug in the translation and not create it automatically from the title)".
- Now when you translate just confirm and save the same URL slug. You can also go to your secondary language post/page and within quick edit settings, edit the slug.
