Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers – “There is a problem connecting to automatic translation”

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Overview of the issue

If you are using the Email Encoder – Protect Email Addresses and Phone Numbers plugin, when you go to WPML → Translation Management → Automatic Translation tab, you will receive the following error:

There is a problem connecting to automatic translation. Please check your internet connection and try again in a few minutes. If you continue to see this message, please contact our support team.

Workaround

You have two workarounds:

Go to Settings → Email Encoder and open the Advanced Settings.

Select WordPress filters in the Protect emails section.

Make a full backup of your site.

Add this code into your functions.php file:

add_filter('eeb/validate/is_post_excluded', function($return){
    if (is_user_logged_in() && !empty($_GET['wpml-app'])) {
        return true;
    }
    return $return;
});

Remove the code once the error disappears.

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