Problem: The client needed to prevent the "Pin it" button from appearing on the language flag images on their website. The "Pin it" button developer suggested adding a 'nopin' attribute to the images, but they were unable to do so as the images were added by the theme or translation plugin. Solution: We recommend considering a different approach since custom code modifications can be lost with future updates. The plugin that adds the button should ideally provide an option to exclude certain images or site areas from having the button applied. Alternatively, the client could switch to using language names or abbreviations instead of flags. If the client is not comfortable with coding, we suggest hiring a WPML contractor from https://wpml.org/contractors or a developer to implement the required changes. It is important to save any custom code and know where to reapply it after updates to avoid losing the modifications.
Please note that this solution might be outdated or not applicable to your case. If this doesn't resolve your issue, 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 you still need assistance, please open a new support ticket with us.
Problem: The client noticed that their blog posts in German include a '/de/' tag in the URL, while the English ones do not have an '/eng/' tag, and they are concerned this might confuse Google in understanding their website.
Solution: We explained that it is normal not to have a slug for the default language in the URL. If the client prefers to include a slug for the default language, we provided a link to our documentation on how to set this up: Language setup for the default language.
We also reassured the client that search engines like Google use "hreflang" tags to understand the language of the content on each page, and these tags are present in the code of each page. For more information on hreflang tags, we provided a link: What is hreflang?.
