404 error for country links

Hi Clem,

Country slug can not be different for both language. If you translate country slug in French language the n that slug will be changed for all language.
For ex: if “india” translated to “inde” then “inde” will be used in urls for all languages.

Do you have an idea why it happened ?
If slug already used via post slug or term slug then it adds -1 to country slug. See https://wpgeodirectory.com/docs/faqs/why-do-my-locations-get-a-1-at-the-end/

How can I fixe the English country slugs ?
< It can be updated manually from database, please check i have updated.

How can I have my French country names and slugs translated ?
<
1) Go to your admin edit profile page -> Select language France
2) Go Multilocations -> Translate Countries (must be in France Language) -> Select countries to translate -> Save

Thanks,
Kiran

Hi,

So if I’m not wrong, “Translate Countries” in “Multi Location” are not useful if I keep English as primary language?

<
No, you can still translate country slugs with keeping non English as a primary language. For example someone has website in French so obviously he will prefer country slug in urls in French language. Suppose he has translated “spain” to “espagne” then all urls with country will be “/espagne/” for all languages.

Just a thought : For the SEO, If a French person asks google for “Kitesurfing Espagne”
Isn’t it a bad point to have “spain” in the slug instead of “espagne”?

<<
As the country slug in url remain same for all languages, the country slug translation is useful when someone wants there urls with translated country slugs. Currently it is hard to use different country slugs for each language. In future we will make to use different country slugs for different languages once we find easy way to implement.

Last point :
I have translated my page “Africa” (the page where I have all my African country links) with WPML string translation
In my English page, all my country links look like that :

Mysite.com/places/spain

To have it working in the French pages I translated it like that :

Mysite.com/fr/places/spain (If I go to that page I have the result expected)

But then, when I visit my French page, and tick my country link, I’m redirected on the English result and the link looks like that :

Mysite.com/?gd_placecategory=morocco

To avoid this problem I can translate my continent pages independently, but I truly prefer keeping all my pages as English page duplicates and translate everything with WPML string translation. Less confusing and faster!

<<
Yes, in your page content, if you have included links which are related to different language pages then prefer to independent page translation. Because instead of duplicating and translating it is easy to use translated content directly there for the independently translated page.

Thanks,
Kiran