WPML duplicate GD post does not take default category

Hi Guust,

What I did was:

1) I duplicated a CPT.
2) I noticed that I forgot to duplicate the CPT Categories.
3) I duplicated the CPT Categories.
4) I duplicated the other CPT’s.

All duplicated CPTs appeared with the right duplicated Categories, except for the fact that duplicated Category B was set as default instead duplicated Category A.

I mean that, as far as I have experienced, even if translated categories have different IDs, they are correctly changed for the duplicated CPTs, that is, the translated CPT replaced its categories IDs for the duplicated categories ID. The only problem is that the category set as default changed.

I look forward to your reply.

Thank you very much once again for your attention.

Best regards.

Hi Kieran,

I think that the problem has been due to the fact that I ignored that, when I duplicated the CPTs, they were set to Free GD Price that has a limit of only one category.

Since I will soon set up a new CPT, I will try again to perform the same operation, and I will let you know what happens.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Best regards.

Hi Kieran,

Reset. Forget all what I said. The problem that I saw is not the problem. WPML duplicated GD posts have the correct default category.

The problem is the category icon shown in the map:

1) Language: Catalan. 71 posts. https://inforoses.com/roses-tapas-club/tots/ – Category icon shown in map is “tots”, which is the correct one.

2) Language: Spanish. 13 posts (same as in French and English). https://inforoses.com/roses-tapas-club/todos/?lang=es – Category icon shown in map is “ruta-tapes-es” instead “todos”.

3) Language: French. 13 posts (same as in Spanish and English). https://inforoses.com/roses-tapas-club/tous/?lang=fr – Category icon shown in map is “ruta-tapes-fr” instead “tous”.

4) Language: English. 13 posts (same as in French and Spanish). https://inforoses.com/roses-tapas-club/all/?lang=en – Category icon shown in map is “ruta-tapes-en” instead “all”, except for one post, that show the correct “all” category icon.

I can not see the logic behind all this.

Could you help?

I look forward to your reply.

Thank you very much for your attention.

Best regards.

Hi Kiran,

Thank you very much for your response.

Since the matter was becoming more and more confusing, I had no other option than to manually review and reset when necessary the categories of all the CPT’s in all languages to display to correct default icon.

To make the matter even more confusing I kept the name of an specific category the same in the different languages. Therefore I also changed it to a different name for each language before doing it.

Doing it I have found several different situations that I suppose have been originated when duplicating the CPTs to the different languages with WPML.

1) A few CPTs had their categories correctly translated to the correponding categories in the other languages.
2) Most CPTs kept the categories of the original language in their translation. Therefore I had to delete all them and set the categories of its language. Strangely enough in the dropdown selector most times only the categories of the corresponding language appeared but sometimes also appeared categories of the original language.
3) With some CPTs the category set as default changed after duplication.

I do not know how each situation has been originated, therefore the next time I duplicate a CPT to the other languages I will try to see exactly what I do and what happens and I will let you know if I detect something strange.

Thanks a lot for your support and willingness.

Best regards.

Thanks Alex!