Hello Team,
I’m running WoodMart 7.5.1 with WooCommerce 6.5.5 and WPML/WCML to serve both English (default) and Arabic versions of my shop. In English the Layered Nav (attribute filter) widget works perfectly, but in Arabic the color and size filters disappear (the widget shows zero counts). On single product pages, the attributes show correctly; only the shop/category sidebar filters are blank.
What I’ve tried:
1. Checked attribute translation settings. In WPML → Settings → Taxonomies translation, I set pa_color and pa_size to “Translatable – use translation if available or fallback to default language” and ensured each term has an Arabic translation.
2. Duplicated products and attributes. I duplicated products into Arabic via WPML → Translation Dashboard so that attributes are copied and synced.
3. Disabled the new WooCommerce attribute lookup table. According to WPML’s errata, WooCommerce 6.3 introduced a lookup table that only populates for the default language. I went to WooCommerce → Settings → Products → Advanced and unchecked “Enable table usage”
I also regenerated the lookup table from WooCommerce → Status → Tools, but the Arabic counts remain zero
4. Ran WPML troubleshooting tools. I used WPML → Support → Troubleshooting to synchronize post taxonomies, sync attributes and variations, fix product terms count, and set language information. It didn’t resolve the zero-count issue.
5. Cleared all caches (WooCommerce transients, theme cache, server cache) after each change.
6. Verified alternative plugin. When I replace WoodMart’s widget with the “Filter Everything – WordPress/WooCommerce Product Filter” plugin, Arabic filters work fine. This suggests the data exists but the WoodMart widget (or its integration with WPML) isn’t picking it up.
Based on WPML documentation, the root cause seems to be WooCommerce’s attribute lookup table not populating for secondary languages
Disabling it should force WooCommerce to use taxonomy queries, but WoodMart’s widget still doesn’t show the translated terms. Filter Everything bypasses this by building its own queries.
Could you please advise if there is a theme fix or compatibility patch to make the WoodMart layered-nav widget respect translated attribute counts? Any guidance or custom snippet would be appreciated.
Thank you!
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