WordPress - Troubleshooting - I clicked on a link and I am redirected to my original language

In this article, you'll find how to troubleshoot when you're redirected to your original language when clicking on a link.

1. Missing Slash "/" at the end of the link

As you can see in the screenshot below, the URL in the source of the <a> tag is http://www.rmfhk.com/zh/storyteller

There is no slash ("/") at the end of the URL. You can check this by going to your browser inspector (right click > inspect)

This is not the proper syntax and that's why you are redirected to the URL of your original web page language.

You need to add a slash ("/") at the end of the URL (directly in the source of your <a> HTML tag).

As you can see below, the URL in the source of the <a> tag is now: http://www.rmfhk.com/zh/storyteller/, with a slash at the end of the URL.

It's now working properly and you'll be redirected to the page version with the language selected.

If your URL slug has a port number like this: http://192.168.42.98:8510

The port number ":8510" is causing the issue. You must remove it and it will work properly.

Make sure that the URL of the link is the absolute URL (for example https://www.mywebsite.com/product/) and not the relative URL (/product/).