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Hi Peter,
Thanks for the support! The fix you provided somehow comments out the WPML redirect script in the header but it does indeed fix the language switcher links. So redirection still doesn’t work :( The hreflang links generated by WPML are also wrong:
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="de-DE" href="http://www.example.io/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="http://www.example.io/en/homepage/" />but i think I’ve already mentioned that above (hope it helps when debugging).
In case somebody else is experiencing this: I’ve overwritten the canonical URLs for the frontpages in the SEO plugin, so now Google shows the correct URL. ;)
Of course this is a temporary fix and I hope that Kriesi will look into it :)Hey Peter, thanks for re-configuring the frontpage!
Unfortunately this quick fix is not a solution to the core problem! According to WPML, the correct way to do multilingual frontpages is to have the other languages listed as translations of the frontpage! There are several problems that arise from this issue:
– Automatic Language Redirection by WPML is now broken since there is no translated Frontpage to redirect to;
– Synchronising the translations of the Frontpages becomes harder;
– Permalinks for the homepages now are http://www.example.com/homepage for German and http://www.example.com/en/homepage/ for English;
– This is especially bad for SEO since sitemaps and canonical URLs are long and malformed and do not point to the site’s main URL;
– Not using the wordpress’ built in static pages feature breaks other pluginsPlease make this theme WPML compatible – this is an essential feature!
