automatic and wrong redirect to english language

to sum up:
if someone tries to access a page without language information encoded, wordpress typically tries to change the url to the currently active language, which is detected via cookies.

in my case this is done wrong, because wordpress correctly adds en in front, however, it then uses the slugs of the wrong language. that is, it adds en correctly, but then uses de slugs and not en slugs afterwards, which results in a 404.

is this a bug or am i doing something wrong?

@beta2k,

When I visit your site, clean without cookies set I get:

yoursite.org/programm/filme2015 = German = correct
When I then choose English I get:
yoursite.org/en/program/films2015 = English = correct right?

yoursite.org/en/archive
yoursite.org/archiv

As you can see, the slugs also work.

In the other pages it works also that way, so I think everything works as it should.

Perhaps this is the problem: Visit the site and set front-end to English then go to Admin and this is in German. Now a page in German with German slug opens when viewed the (settings on front-end English) English site but the slug in German with en/ does not exist.
Is this what you mean?

Perhaps this is the problem: Visit the site and set front-end to English then go to Admin and this is in German. Now a page in German with German slug opens when viewed the (settings on front-end English) English site but the slug in German with en/ does not exist.
Is this what you mean?

yes, this is it somehow. frontend is switched to english. then i manually (or via admin-interface with german language) enter the url of a german language page. wordpress adds en/ but leaves the slug as is, that is, the german slug. result is a 404 obviously, because slug is not changed to english slug.

any workaround/solution for this behavior?

regular visitors to the website will not notice this.

Administrators should be aware of this, that is the only solution.

ok. totally makes sense. thx.
this is resolved for me. unfortunately i dont see the checkbox.. maybe you can resolve.
thx

You are welcome!

still one way to replicate this without admin interface is as follows:

suppose, you have an email with a link to a german version of a page. you click on this link and browse to the site. then you click the language switcher button to “english language”. then you again click the “german link” from the email. this will result in a 404, because wordpress still thinks that you are on the english version, but you clicked a german-version link from the e-mail…

is there a way to solve/circumvent this?

of course one way to avoid this is to enable the setting that adds also the prefix for the default language in the url.

but is there a way to avoid this behavior without having to add the prefix for the default language in the url?

one more thing: a bugfix could look like this: if wordpress (or the plugin) adds the language prefix to the URL, it should also use the slugs of the respective language. the only reason, why i get 404 is, because the default-language slugs are used. however, i use qtranslate-slug for multilanguage slugs. so ideally these slugs should the be used.. if someone could give me a hint on where to find this in the code i could maybe implement a “hacky solution” to get qtranslate-x to use the correct language slugs..

Try to create symbolic redirects back to website root with the language prefix. E.g. a symbolic link named “en” that is inside root and links back to root. I’m using that for some other still unresolved problems. But yeah – it’s a hack and not very nice…

But that way – no matter if you call domain.org/en/deutscherslug or call domain.org/de/deutscherslug it would always be found. even though of course /en/deutscherslug does not really exist.

thx for the hint. hm i’d give it a shot. but how/where to create this symbolic link?

@extremecarver: any chance for you to answer my question above? ??

@beta2k,

you have an email with a link to a german version of a page. you click on this link and browse to the site. then you click the language switcher button to “english language”. then you again click the “german link” from the email. this will result in a 404, because wordpress still thinks that you are on the english version, but you clicked a german-version link from the e-mail…

have you actually tried this?
This just goes well, you will see the German page. Try it

Edit:
All you have to do is use /de/ in the link.

hm in my case it does not. am i doing something wrong?
i click german version link: https://crossroads-festival.org/programm/filme2015
then i switch to english version via the button in the top navigation: https://crossroads-festival.org/en/program/films2015
then i again click german version link (e.g. from an e-mail or via copy&paste), but it will redirect to wrong (!) english version: https://crossroads-festival.org/en/programm/filme2015

the last link above is wrong and gives me a 404. please take note, that it adds en BUT with german slugs, that is, programm/filme2015. if it would add the english slugs (program/films2015) everything would be fine. but it doesn’t and i dont know why.

Your default language is German so without the addition /de

Make the German link crossroads-festival.org/de/programm/filme2015

Put your site in English and use the German link (with /de/) in an e-mail to test.