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  • February 25, 2025 at 1:13 pm #1477895
    Martina

    Hi. I am attempting to translate 13 pages (under the menu heading SERVICES) to chinese (simplified) using microsoft translation via the WPML Plugin on our staging site. I selected the 13 pages and ran the translation but when I click on the Chinese flag for those pages it breaks the menu and does not display the page content. To test if this break was caused by the chinese characters, I did a test of a French translation for that one page. Part of the page itself translated to french but the main menu is also broken, and the footer is not displaying correctly. Is there something I can do to avoid this? The menu and footer should stay in English and not translate, Any advice appreciated as I am not sure what to do to get pages displaying correctly. I am posting login details in private area. Thank you

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    February 26, 2025 at 5:29 am #1477967
    Ismael

    Hey Martina,

    Thank you for the inquiry.

    Did you translate the menus to other languages? Please check this documentation: https://wpml.org/documentation/getting-started-guide/translating-menus/

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    February 26, 2025 at 11:35 am #1478006
    Martina

    Hi Ismael
    I actually don’t want the menu translated, just the content of the page. But when I translate the page and publish, it breaks the menu – I will put the links in the private section below. This is very frustrating

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    February 27, 2025 at 5:27 am #1478072
    Ismael

    Hi,

    You have to translate the menus because once any page is translated, WPML creates another version of the site for a different language. This separate version requires its own menu since WordPress menus are language-specific. If the menu isn’t translated, it won’t appear on the translated pages and WPML will assign a default menu, usually containing all pages. Please try to translate the current menu to the other language.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

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