Urgent: all listings go to a 404 error

I undid WPML slug translation and the 404 are gone for now.
Only issue is that it says “Store” all over the French site.
The “urgent” in the title can be downgraded, sorry.

OK I found the solution to translating the CPT slugs without losing the entire location in the URL:

The slugs need to be translated in 2 places:
– once for CPT, like described here: https://wpgeodirectory.com/support/topic/translating-main-category-post-type-in-the-url/#post-44802
– and multiple times in the WPML String Translation tool. I searched for my slug with exact match and translated 3 entries:
– 2 in WordPress domain named “URL slug: stores” and “URL slug: gd_place”
– 1 in geodirectroy domain with the Context “URL slug”

And now it works. Case solved, but painful process when undocumented.

Hi Guust,

As I moved from test site to staging site, I had to go through it again with new CPT. If slugs are only translated like you documented, there are definitely major issues left, even after resaving permalinks. For example:

1. the links on the categories widget sill have the English slug when the site is in another language
2. going on a category’s page and switching language with the WPML language selector still goes to the wrong language CPT slug
3. going on a listing in a foreign language and clicking on a category link, will have the wrong language in slug and yield to a 404
4. going on a listing’s page in English and switching language with the WPML language selector still go to the right language CPT slug, but the URL will miss all the location slugs

Translating the CPT slug that appear in WPML String Translation under the “WordPress” Domain fixes all 4 issues.

Cheers,
Marc