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Ok, I have translated the strings through polylang as suggested, my backend is in english so no need to translate those. The problem still persists though.
I have tried on an installation that uses wp store locator but not polylang and the issue is not present, so as you said it may be a compatibility problem.

Could you elaborate on what should I check more precisely that could cause this kind of issue?

Hi wfasa,
I’ve tried troubleshooting with health check as suggested. But the problem is present even if the only active plugin is wordfence, with twentyseventeen theme active.

So I’ve looked at the .htaccess and it looks like the default wordpress one, with just a couple of comment rows from ‘Duplicator plugin’:

# This file was updated by Duplicator on 2017-09-20 08:38:14. See .htaccess.orig for the original .htaccess file.
# Please note that other plugins and resources write to this file. If the time-stamp above is different
# than the current time-stamp on the file system then another resource has updated this file.
# Duplicator only writes to this file once during the install process while running the installer.php file.

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

I don’t have duplicator installed in the other wordpress installation that is giving me the same problem.
I’m contacting my host to try excluding server problems.

Thank you.

Thank you for the answer and sorry for the late reply.
I don’t have cache plugins installed and have tried clearing the browser cache (and using a different browser) with no effect. Do I need to look in other places too to delete cache?
I’ve tried installing the plugin “WP Admin no cache” that disables browser caching, but the problem stays.

The same problem has appeared trying to install the plugin in another server for another unrelated wp installation (a multisite).

Thanks

The Coder, you took the time to reply so I’m answering your questions:
most of the issues I’ve had were bugs or things the developer already answered to other customers. E.g. cyrillic urls had problems, the plugin is extremely sensible to changes in theFor other things, other developers told me they were having issues. A developer we hired to create a custom plugin had big issues adapting to polylang and told me it was messy, ‘Pods’ plugin developers solved for me some of the incompatibilities.
Other were due to lack of intercompatibility, e.g. revolution slider cannot be translated (it’s not polylang fault, but still it’s a problem for me, considered the price).
Other times I had the free version, which as you know has no support (many free plugin offer support).

It’s years I use it so I don’t remember all the issues, but I know that activating polylang was always a ‘finger crossed’ moment.

If you read again my review, i wrote “For a standard site and in the free version, it is a great plugin”. My main complain is not the free version, but the feeling of extortion the pro version gives. It’s very pricey, which is undeniable looking at the competition (which has much wider compatibility btw). I simply cannot offer it to many of our clients. If I go with pro, I feel locked with it, because the main benefit is having same-slug between languages, and if you build a website that way, downgrading to free beaks the site (I’ve recently discovered that, maybe it was an addition to recent versions). Staying with pro without paying is a no-no too, last time I tried the site broke just after months. Staying with pro should give you support and updates, it shouldn’t be the only option to keep your site intact (hence the extortion sensation).

I don’t have problems paying the right price for something, but when the price is high, I feel I have no other options, the products has not the widest compatibility and often gives big headaches, well, I really cannot recommend it.
The only problem is that having already many websites with polylang (setup when pro didn’t exist) I cannot pay pro for all of them (they’re more than 25 and some have woocommerce, which I guess means the bill would be on the thousands, while competition is just over 100), and switching to other options requires a lot of work.
Polylang seems to be run by just 1 developer, other less pricy options re run by big teams so I really cannot understand the big price difference.
The support may be excellent, but support is a solution to solve problems that already happened. And in my experience, with this plugin, problems do happen. I currently have 3 problems in my websites, 2 involve polylang. One of those is having pages with same slug stop functioning, which is the expected behaviour apparently. The other is that changing language always redirects to the homepage, which apparently has no solution at the moment (there are open threads about the issue).

I hope I answered your questions and gave an explanation on why my review is mainly negative.