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WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce – Default attributes not synced properly

Published 2025-09-18 · Updated 2025-10-21
Status
Resolved
Reported for
WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce 5.5.2.1
Resolved in
WooCommerce Multilingual & Multicurrency 5.5.2.2
Topic tags
WCML

Overview of the issue

In WPML Multilingual & Multicurrency for WooCommerce, it may occur that when translating a variable product, the default variation in the second language is either missing or incorrectly set to 0.

This happens when the term_id and term_taxonomy_id values differ, which can occur with global product attributes.

Workaround

Please, make sure of having a full site backup of your site before proceeding.


  • Open …/woocommerce-multilingual/classes/Synchronization/Component/Attributes.php file.

  • Look for line 137.

  • Replace: 
    $defaultTermIdTranslations = $this->elementTranslations->get_element_translations( $defaultTermId, false, true );


  • With: 
    $defaultTermIdTranslations = [];


  • On the same file, look for line 149 and replace: 
    $translatedDefaultTermId = $this->elementTranslations->element_id_in( $defaultTermId, $language );


  • With: 
    $translatedDefaultTermId = apply_filters( 'wpml_object_id', $defaultTermId, $sanitizedAttributeName, false, $language );


  • After applying these changes, you need to manually save or update the products with this issue.

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