Language Labels Showing in Admin

[LikeStuff]

Hello,

I updated my website to Joomla 4. When I moved the site from the development area to the live site, I noticed that in the backend some of the language labels are showing. Please see attached.

How can I fix this please?

Thanks!

[imanickam]

Did the update went through successfully? The reason for my question is that these language strings (that are not translated) are not present in the current stable version of Joomla! 4 (ie 4.2.7).

Please review the log file named joomla_update.php that is located in the directory administrator\logs.

What version of Joomla! 4 is being used for your site? The current stable version of Joomla! 4 is 4.2.7.

[LikeStuff]

1) Yes, the update went through successfully

2) The currently installed Joomla is ‎4.2.7

3) The only thing in /administrator/logs is an index.html file. I do see an error_log in the administrator folder.

Thanks!

[imanickam]

If the update was done through the update component of Joomla then there would be a log. In case if you had used utilities such a Akeeba Backup to copy an updated site to another place then the update log files may not be present.

The reason for checking whether the update has gone successfully is that it looks like the file application.xml is being used from one of the previous version of Joomla (such as v3.10.x). To clarify what I mean, please see the following code snippet.

Joomla! 4.2.7

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		<field
			name="feed_email"
			type="list"
			label="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_FEED_EMAIL_LABEL"
			default="none"
			filter="word"
			validate="options"
			>
			<option value="author">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_AUTHOR_EMAIL</option>
			<option value="site">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_SITE_EMAIL</option>
			<option value="none">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_NO_EMAIL</option>

		</field>

Joomla! 3.10.11

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		<field
			name="feed_email"
			type="list"
			label="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_FEED_EMAIL_LABEL"
			description="COM_CONFIG_FIELD_FEED_EMAIL_DESC"
			default="none"
			filter="word"
			>
			<option value="author">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_AUTHOR_EMAIL</option>
			<option value="site">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_SITE_EMAIL</option>
			<option value="none">COM_CONFIG_FIELD_VALUE_NO_EMAIL</option>

		</field>

As you can notice, the description that contain the language string COM_CONFIG_FIELD_FEED_EMAIL_DESC is not being used in Joomla! 4.2.7. Since it is present in 3.x, it is showing as untranslated string.

If it is indeed the case, there could be other files that may not have been relocated or modified from the previous version of Joomla!

Note:
To understand the issue/behavior, I would suggest installing a fresh copy of Joomla that is downloaded from https://downloads.joomla.org/ in a local or test environment and check the back-end.