WhatsApp button text ignores translation plugins
Translated button text and message fields do not change with the language on WPML, Polylang, or TranslatePress.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 19 December 2023 · last reported 13 January 2026
What's going wrong
Site owners running multilingual WooCommerce sites with Polylang or WPML report that the WhatsApp button label stays in the original language on some pages.
AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.
In the idea report
- The full summary.
- The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
- Related problems.
No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.