[Resolved] Translated url slugs now all throw a 404 not found for CPT "Books"

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[kristofG]

I am trying to: view a page

I visited this URL: hidden link

I expected to see: the detail page of this book

Instead, I got: a 404 Page not found

We use WPML for "Use different slugs in different languages for Books." So in English we have urls like /en/books/abc, in Dutch /nl/boek/abc and in French /fr/livre/abc. All Dutch book urls are fine, but all book urls in EN/FR give a 404 Page not found.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

Would you mind providing me with admin access to your website so that I can have a look at this ?

Thanks,
Shane

[kristofG]

sure, normally you can find this in https://toolset.com/forums/topic/adding-custom-fields-to-my-template-throws-uncaught-referenceerror/, message #447440

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

None of these aren't working even the site url.

However for issue that are caused by translation it would be best to open a ticket with our WPML team as well, as they are better trained to handle these issues.

Thanks,
Shane

[kristofG]

What do you get then, when you visit the site url? A 404? That indicates the problem here.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

This is what I'm seeing.

Thanks,
Shane

[kristofG]

I see in the upper left corner ...itinerainst/, what url is that? You'll need hidden link like in my original post at the top and hidden link for the admin.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

The posts should now start to work.

What I did was to modify the Book CPT Rewrite rules to allow it to have custom urls.

This setting can be found on the Edit CPT page under the Options section.

Thanks
Shane

[kristofG]

Do you mean this setting? see screenshot 3.

What was it set to before? And why did it work before and then stopped working until you just now changed that setting?

Because the CPT Article is set to "Use the normal WordPress URL logic" (screenshot 4) and those translations work perfectly. We have /nl/artikel and /fr/article/ and that just works.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

It seems that changing this setting was able to refresh the permalinks for the CPT so that the new structure was recognised.

Sometimes when altering permalink structures they will need to be refreshed in order for the new structure to resolve correctly.

Thanks,
Shane

[kristofG]

Hi Shane,

We know that we best resave the Permalinks after changes, but we did not alter permalinks in any way. Unless a plugin/theme might have done this.

[Shane Supporter Languages: English (English ) Timezone: America/Jamaica (GMT-05:00)]

Hi Kristof,

The using of the different domain per language caused the urls the change by adding the en/fr/ to the url.

Thanks,
Shane

[kristofG]

Oh, glad that you figured that out. I would have never have linked that change to our 404 url issue.