Title: Existing Translation Linking
Last modified: June 22, 2026

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# Existing Translation Linking

 *  Resolved [tylerpeffer921](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerpeffer921/)
 * (@tylerpeffer921)
 * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-translation-linking/)
 * I am recreating some pages using a new page builder, and I am unable to connect
   the existing translations to the new page. I use the search tool within the backend,
   and only one page comes up, I put in the exact name of the existing translations
   and it does not select it correctly.
   WPBakery, Astra theme

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 *  Thread Starter [tylerpeffer921](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerpeffer921/)
 * (@tylerpeffer921)
 * [1 week, 1 day ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/existing-translation-linking/#post-18945464)
 * Solved this after some digging, so I will put my findings here in case anyone
   else is as stumped as I was. 
   To be able to relink existing translations to new
   pages you need to be sure of the following: • Be sure your new page is set as
   the correct language (The search function only searches for pages WITHIN the 
   language you are translating to, makes sense as I type it, but wasn’t clear in
   the back end)• The existing page needs to be unlinked from previous translations
   before it can link to the new page. If the page is connected to another page 
   it WILL NOT come up in the search field for other pages. It felt like it should
   do this automatically, but I can see why that isn’t the case.
 * To unlink the old pages, you just have to go into the main page, delete the text
   and hit publish. Then you can find your new page and connect what needs to be
   connected.
    -  This reply was modified 1 week, 1 day ago by [tylerpeffer921](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tylerpeffer921/).

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