Help: Blog post translations resulting in 404 Not Found?

[skehoe]

A client set up a website that has multilingual functionality (WPML) and the back end is a bit of a mess. The site has around 6 translated versions of the 30 or so existing English blog posts in French, Italian and Spanish - all with their own URLs.

The problem is that on the remaining 24 English blog posts, the language changer in the header is still there - even though the majority of posts have not been translated - so when you go to change the language to French, it adds **?lang=fr **onto the existing english URL, and is a page not found (4xx client error). I can't redirect anything because the page does not exist.

Is there a way to stop this from happening? I have noticed it's also creating italian/french/spanish translation of the english Categories too.

Thanks in advance.

[Alick300]

Hi Stacey,

Just deactivated and reactivated the following plugin:

• WPML Multilingual CMS
• WPML Translation ManagementVersion

If it doesn't resolve your issue please let us know.

Thanks

[skehoe]

Hi Alick300,

Unfortunately this has not resolved the issue.

For example, if there was a blog post with the URL www.moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-stuff then if French, for example, was chosen in the front-end multilingual dropdown menu, the selection would display www.moz.com/blog/how-to-fix-stuff?lang=fr**- **which is a page that does not exist, so I can't even redirect anything

[Alick300]

Hi,

I'm sharing a thread from wpml forum. Please check all the 6 points and you can also communicate with them directly in wpml forum.

https://wpml.org/forums/topic/translation-page-not-found-404/

Thanks