WPML same slug(url) different language

Question

I have this site :

example.com/watches (watches is a custom post type)

There are two available languages : EN(default language), GR.

When i change to GR (while on page example.com/watches) it redirects to example.com/el/watches which is right.

When i am on example.com/watches/rolex and i try to change language it redirects to example.com/el/taxwatches/rolex-el but i want it just to be example.com/el/watches/rolex/.

taxwatches is my custom taxonomy.

rolex-el is the slug of the term inside that taxonomy.

Has anyone experienced an issue like this before?

I've tried to save the permalinks again and check my WMPL settings but i can't see something wrong.

EDIT 1 : If i manually go to example.com/el/watches/rolex it will work fine. Both example.com/el/watches/rolex and example.com/el/taxwatches/rolex-el work.

EDIT 2: From what i understand WPML takes the slugs, is there a way to change it so it takes the names?

Antonios Tsimourtos Antonios Tsimourtos · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-03T15:35:13

Ok so for anyone having problems with multi language sites - but want to have the "same slugs" in the urls (will never be same slugs - but going to look like that) read the below.

WPML uses slugs which are created from the wordpress core structure - you can't have two slugs with the exactly same name. If default language is EN and you have a secondary, in my case GR, then one slug is going to be "myslug" and the other "myslug-gr" (you can customize this "-gr" through WPML settings).

In functions.php you can filter the "wpml_ls_filter" function which is fired when your Language switcher is created.

Code as below :

add_filter('icl_ls_languages', 'wpml_ls_filter');

function wpml_ls_filter($languages) {

   foreach ($languages as $lang_code => $language) {

       $mTempString = $languages[$lang_code]['url'];

       echo $mTempString; // HERE

       // If "tax" is found in that string, replace it with "" - remove it.
       if (strpos($mTempString, "tax") !== false) {

              $languages[$lang_code]['url'] = str_replace("tax", "", $mTempString);
       }

   }
return $languages;
}

The above echo is going to show you the url that is created (and you can manipulate it) of each language button when pressed whenever you visit a page/post.

I haven't wrote a complete solution because that really depends on what you want to do. For example the above code helped me achieve to remove "tax" if found in the url.

WPML same slug(url) different language

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