Link URL change in translated text

  • Resolved okapicf

    (@okapicf)


    8 months, 2 weeks ago

    We translate from German to English; the original text in German contains URLs to websites with German content; part of the translation to English includes the change or the URLs to target websites with English content (ie., both URLs are different.

    Once a slight change occurs in the original German text and is saved, the URLs in the target language change to the URLs of the original text (here: back into German links).

    Is there a way to avoid such a change when the content of the original website is changed?

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  • Plugin Contributor Edson Galina Fortes

    (@glx77)

    Hi @okapicf,
    hope you’re fine ? Sorry for the issue you’re facing. There is link I can see your issue ?

    Regards

    Thread Starter okapicf

    (@okapicf)

    Hi Edson,

    there is actually no link to see it live; but I believe that the problem can be replicated quickly by just having an original text where one word contains a link to a different website; then translate the website into a different language and change the link in that translated text to a different URL. Go back to the original text and change one of the other words in the text and save it. In our experience, the URL in the translated text changes to the URL of the original text.

    I do hope that the above explanation helps to understand and possible replicate the problem we are currently facing.

    A fix of this bug would be very much appreciated, since we have a lot of blog texts that contain different URLs in their respective translations.

    thanks a lot

    Thread Starter okapicf

    (@okapicf)

    our live website is wissen.sanoanimal.de with original texts always in German, and translations into English, Dutch, Spanish, and Swiss German.

    Plugin Contributor Edson Galina Fortes

    (@glx77)

    Thanks it’s help a lot. Can you describe me how you update you’re link? May you have the possibility to make a short video to let me see your issue ?

    Thread Starter okapicf

    (@okapicf)

    We’ve done a short screen recording that shows what we typically do; this shows the original text in German and the translation in English; after the adoption of changes on the German blog article, we validate and accept the changes in the WMPL tool, but then the link on the English site is changed back from directing the user to the English partner shop (before changes) to the German shop (link the URL in the German article.

    Summarizing, the problem is that after a renewed translation of parts of the blog article, WPML is changing all links back to the URLs of the original blog article. It rather should not change any of the URLs in the translated version unless the editor is doing so.

    [video src="https://wissen.sanoanimal.de/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/WhatsApp-Video-2024-03-15-um-13.35.41_78d314ea.mp4" /]
    Plugin Contributor Edson Galina Fortes

    (@glx77)

    Hi @okapicf,

    hope you’re fine. You are using WPML but here you’re in the Weglot plugin forum it’s not the same plugin. I think you should reach your issue to the WPML support

    Regards

    Thread Starter okapicf

    (@okapicf)

    so sorry, missed that somehow

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