I want the user to redirect to homepage if he click on language flag on category that not translated.
In the language switcher i set to redirect to homepage if there is no translation
The site default language is Hebrew and the translation is in English.
I'm not translating the all website categories to English because its a songs website so what I need is if user is in a song category page in Hebrew and click on the US flag I need to redirect the user to the English homepage because there is no translation for the category page but the user redirect to English page with Hebrew text and not to English homepage.
You can see it live here (this is a Hebrew category that not translated to English):
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click on the US flag you will not redirect to English homepage and you will see English template with Hebrew text.
This is happening because the category has an existing translation for English, this feature will only work if the category has no translation to English. (even if it is not translated it looks like the translation page has been created for English for that category)
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You would need to remove the translation of the category.
For those categories already translated you can delete them from your WordPress Dashboard > Posts > Categories you can just change to the language you need to delete the category term, using the top admin bar language switcher, then you should be able to edit/delete it.
Hi Bobby,
The category in our example have no translation because its a song category (no translation for songs categories in this site) this is why you see Hebrew content in En Language, in this case I need to redirect the user to the English homepage and not displaying the category description in Hebrew if the user click on US flag while he is on a Hebrew category.
from my side it looks like it actually has a translation even though the content is not translated the translated version of the category exists which is why it's not redirecting to the home page instead.
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(preferably to a test site where the problem has been replicated if possible)
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- Go to WPML->Settings->Taxonomies Translation -> Categories (category)
It's currently set to "Translatable use translation if available or fallback to default language" which is why it looks like the translation exists when I reviewed the page even though it does not.
Set it to "Translatable only show translated items" and it will resolve the issue you are experiencing.
