wp_term_taxonomy no longer used?

Hi Chouby – your plugin is the best! However, I ran into a problem. I’m a php developer – not a WordPress guy really.

Anyway, we have 200+ posts (growing all the time). All are in English and some in Spanish. My client wants the Spanish speakers to see the English articles too when they are logged in. That isn’t a problem yet…

Everything I made works great except for the “archives” sidebar – that is, I need to break down posts like:
2016 / 01 [3 posts]
2015 / 12 [6 posts]
etc.

To get accurate counts and links, I do two things:
1) I do this query and go through the unserialized arrays to find out all the post id’s in the two languages:
select description from wp_term_taxonomy where taxonomy = ‘post_translations’

2) In going through those arrays, if an article is in both languages, I pull out the id of the language I’m in. If only in english, I pull out that id – I build up an array of IDs I need then select those to go through to make my “archives” sidebar navigation.

That programming worked for years… however…

Starting around end of 2014, the posts have lost that setting. That is, the query above only pulls in IDs that are “old”. I can’t seem to see what the difference is, data-wise, between an “old” article and a new one.

So my question is, from a php standpoint, how do I accomplish what I need to do on “newer” posts – that is, where are you storing something like what I used to find in wp_term_taxonomy where it gave me (serialized) data like:

a:2:{s:2:”en”;i:422;s:2:”es”;i:720;}

That is, ID=422 is in English and ID=720 is the Spanish version of that article. Where is that for newer posts?

I apologize if this has been asked before. I couldn’t find anything similar to what I was asking.

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