404 error for country links

Ok Thanks, I read and understood better how it works !

In fact I don’t need to create 1 place per country and then delete it, I just need to go to the multi location menu and adding 1 new location per country ! so much faster 🙂

Hi Guust !

I have finished to add all the locations, so now I haven’t the problem with the 404 error page redirection anymore

However I still have a problem I can’t understand :

For some country it works perfectly, when I click on the link I have created (ex: monsite.com/place/spain), I’m redirected on a page where I see only the place of that country

But for some countries, even if I have some places added, I have the message : no records found

I also have noticed :

1- when It works, in the search bar, “near” is replaced by “in Spain (country)” and this field is green but when it doesn’t work, the “near” still appear but the field is also green

2- For some countries who work, sometimes it’s the whole world map with just the places of the country and sometimes the map is focus only on the country (I would like to have the map focus on the country for all countries …)

I did exactly the same for all countries :

1- I created a page for the 5 continents

2- In that pages, I created 1 link for each country (my site.com/places/spain)

3- Through the multiplications settings, I created 1 place for each country

So I don’t understand why it works for some countries and not for the others …

Hi Guust

I have spent time to understand my 404 error page problem I explained on the post above :

First of all I have noticed I’m redirected to the 404 only when the slug of the country is “mysite.com/places/spain” and not when it’s a country with the slug ending with -1 (in that case I’m redirected to mysite.com/fr)

1/ mysite.com/places/spain :

I have the 404 problem only because when I’m in the country listing result (English) and I click on the French flag, the address in my browser search bar is : mysite.com/fr/placesspain/ and it should be : mysite.com/fr/places/spain/

Can I add the missing ” / ” by myself or is it a Geodirectory / WPML bug ?

2/ mysite.com/places/thailand-1 :

I have no idea why in that case I’m redirected to the French home page but I don’t really want to figure it out because I would like to get rid of the -1 from my country slugs because it’s too much confusing

Do you know how can I find the original slug “thailand” and delete it ?
When I have done it, How can I delete the -1 of the country slug ?

3/ About the translation that’s my last issue, in the frontend except that problem, everything is working as it should be. But in the backend, in multi location I have tried to translate the countries as explained but in my Geodirectory core Po. file the countries are already translated so I don’t think I have to change it.
But when I click on “multilocation > Translate countries > update” nothing happen, the French names and slugs are still the same than English

As everything works well in the frontend is not a big problem for me but for the SEO it would be so much better if I find out how to translate it …

Thanks again for your precious advices 🙂