wpml compatibility

Hi Milos, you could configure FE to use translated categories in an older version in combination with wpml. I would show you, but there is no sense when this possibility breaks with the newest or newer version. On the live site i′m still on 1.7.5, wpml modules all uptodate, WP/WC slightly outdated. So right now i don′t know if it′s WP/WC or FE that breaks FE in combination with wpml. I will test when i′ll find the time. Anyways my guess is that something changed in FE. I would wonder if WP/WC is the culprit.

Which vers of FE do you use? WP/WC/WPML? Try do downgrade FE to 1.7.5 and let me know. Maybe we both can help out with finding in which vers it happened.

WordPress Version 6.2
FE Version 1.7.8
WooCommerce Version 7.7.0
WPML Version 4.6.3

and I will not downgrade I just don’t have time for this. It happened before – even a year ago I remember some 404s…

I hope the Author will fix this.

“I just don’t have time for this”

i totally understand. 80-90 percent of my work time is flowing into Multilingual problems with wpml and plugins besides WP/WC. It′s a mess.

Hello

Thank you for your reports.

Can you please provide me with link to the page(s) with this issue and probably with description of how to reproduce the error?

Thank you. Regards.

Hello

Thank you for examples you provided. I checke this and it looks like you have situation when some of your URL Var Names match to the translated category base or so.

For example you set URL Var Name “categorie” for one of your filters and also you use “categorie-de” for one of your translated entity (category, tag, attribute or so). In this case there will be conflict because Filter Everything can recognize construction /categorie-de-produit/ as filter but not the Category permalink base in DE version of the site.

I recommend you to open Filters -> Settings -> URL Var Names and look on your Var Names and find there suspicous that may match to other entities on your site. If you find such Var Names, please change them to something another. For example “fcategorie” or so. This should help you.

Also, check please if you have a Filter Set in Trash. If so, please empty your Trash for Filter Sets.

Please, let me know. Regards.

Hi @stepasyuk, i checked your suggestions for but they aren′t helping for my problem. Unfortunately it′s a password protected staging site so i can′t easily show you. FE worked fine until the newest (or newer) FE update. 1.7.5 is still working. Now users can′t select more than one category in the filter and after picking the first category all category links in the filter get “doubled up” urls. When clicking filter button, those doubledup URL and the filter VAR Names are getting transmitted -> 404

It′s very strange and hard to explain.

Guys

Thank you again for your reports. The reason was found and the issue is solved.

I realized that I was partly right – the reason is that some of your URL Var names matches to your translated category permalink base or taxonomy term slug. But the issue was also in the plugin because when you delete your Filter Set or update URL Var names in the Filters -> Settings -> URL Var Names the plugin does not always update it in case if the filter was previously deleted.

I already fixed this for the next plugin version 1.7.9 whcih will be released a while. But for the moment you have several ways to solve it on your sites:

1. To deactivate and deleter Filter Everything from your dashboard and install it and configure from scratch (if it is possible)
2. To try to edit URL Var Names by the next scheme: if you still see URL Var Names in appropriate tab of the plugin Settings, but their Filters does not exists anymore (were deleted) you have to create such filters again in any Filter Set, update it and afiter deleter these filters one by one from the Filter Set. This should remove extra URL Var names from the tab in Settings and 404 errors will gone.

Please, use the way which is more preferable for you.

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Thank you in advance!

Thanks for taking care. My staging site is used for another wpml problem at the moment from wpml support. The moment this process is finished, i′ll check and will report back.

Thanks for your help Andrii. It works!