I am trying to make a bi-lingual site, English (default) and Arabic, but I am struggling with the way permalinks are being generated. I have pages and a custom post type called product. Nothing too special about it, just a couple of extra custom fields (via Advanced Custom Fields plugin).
For some reason, the permalinks of translated arabic posts are being generated with an Arabic URL (which I don't want). I just want the same post URL just with the language appended as a URL parameter.
For example:
English: http://www.mydomain.com/page1
Arabic: http://www.mydomain.com/page1?lang=ar
Instead I am getting something like:
http://www.mydomain.com/ar/الإنترنت
And for my custom post type:
http://www.mydomain.com/products/الإنترنت
How do I make the language as a URL parameter? (The settings don't seem to offer that option although I've seen people here using it).
How do I avoid getting permalinks generated like this for translated pages? (I want to use pretty URLs for English).
My settings:
Wordpress Permalink Setting: Post name
Using a static front page.
Polylang settings:
Default: English
The language is set from the directory name in pretty permalinks.
(I don't actually want this, I want pretty permalinks for English and URL parameters to switch the language to non-default).
Hide URL language information for default language.
Remove /language/ in pretty permalinks.
Set the language according to the browser preference.
Activate languages and translations for media.
Custom post types: Products
Synchronisation: Taxonomies, Custom Fields, Featured Image, Page Parent.