Translatable CPT slug generates wrong URLs in the switcher

Hello,

MSLS should save the translated strings alone but there are some scenarios when this can’t be done.

You can use a filter for this:

https://gist.github.com/lloc/5f922fc770d818365992#file-msls_options_get_permalink-php

Read on here too:

https://msls.co/hooks-filters-and-actions/

Cheers.
Dennis

Hi there,

thanks for your reply! So I tried the msls_options_get_permalink filter.

I tried pasting it in my theme functions.php file, but it breaks the website ( I get a white screen in the dashboard).

Then I copy/paste it in my CPT plugin, but it only works from English to Italian:

function my_msls_options_get_permalink( $url, $language ) {
    
    if ( 'it_IT' == $language ) {
        $url = str_replace( '/product/', '/prodotto/', $url );
    }
    return $url;
    
}
add_filter( 'msls_options_get_permalink', 'my_msls_options_get_permalink', 10, 2 );

I even tried this with no better result:

function my_msls_options_get_permalink( $url, $language ) {
    
    if ( 'it_IT' == $language ) {
        $url = str_replace( '/product/', '/prodotto/', $url );
    } elseif ( 'en_US' == $language ) {
        $url = str_replace( '/prodotto/', '/product/', $url );
    }
    return $url;
    
}
add_filter( 'msls_options_get_permalink', 'my_msls_options_get_permalink', 10, 2 );

In the MSLS italian setting I now noticed a Rewrite rule: https://imgur.com/a/yiyRTBw

I’m pretty sure Prodotti slug was product before.

Any suggestion on what could interfere?

Thanks again!

Simone

It should also work in the functions.php. Of course – a plugin that you control would probably be a safer place for the snippet.

I guess that the locale of the english webseite is not ‘en_US’ … just try this to confirm that:

function my_msls_options_get_permalink( $url, $language ) {   
    if ( 'it_IT' == $language ) {
        $url = str_replace( '/product/', '/prodotto/', $url );
    } else {
        $url = str_replace( '/prodotto/', '/product/', $url );
    }
    return $url;
}
add_filter( 'msls_options_get_permalink', 'my_msls_options_get_permalink', 10, 2 );

Hi Dennis,

thank you again! I suspected the same and already tried that solution (it’s the one live now). That’s so weird, I usually don’t have such problem. I’m probably missing something really simple.

Is there a way to reset the options of the plugin, and start clean without loosing the linking between pages?

Thanks a lot,

Simone

The plugin writes just its options (when you save settings in the dashboard). So this is nothing to clean.

Very often it needs just a refresh in the permalinks to avoid this kind of strange behaviour in a WordPress website.

Apparantly saving the permalinks pages several times wasn’t enough.

I used flush_rewrite_rules() and did the trick.

Thanks again for your support!

Simone