It’s not possible to have the translated term slug identical to the original term slug

Status

Resolved

Resolved in

WPML 4.8.0

Overview of the issue

Translating a term with the same slug as the original term will automatically add a suffix with the language code. This is because WordPress API does not allow to have more than one occurrence of a slug for a specific taxonomy.

Here’s an example of what we expect:

- http://example.org/city/paris/

- http://example.org/fr/city/paris/

Currently, a language suffix is automatically added to the translated term => http://example.org/fr/city/paris-fr/.

Workaround

As a workaround, you can use the following steps (or watch a screencast of the workaround):

• create the term first


• update it with the “quick edit” link


• change the slug value and click Update {Taxonomy name}

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