Polylang + wpp_get_mostpopular( $args ) function returns nothing in French

Hi,

Not sure if anyone ran into this. Since updating to WPP 6.1.2 when using the wpp_get_mostpopular function and limiting to specific categories using pll_get_term, the alternative language posts will not display. English works fine. I can confirm that nothing is being found for the French page since the wpp_no_data filter is firing. Actually even when I hardcode the category, it shows on English page but not on French page (and I do have the translations for the English posts), so doesn’t appear to be related to the actuall pll_get_term function. Code is below:

$args = array(
'post_type' => 'post',
'limit' => 3,
'cat' => pll_get_term( $cat_ID, 'en' ),
'stats_views' => 0,
'range' => 'all',
'freshness' => 1,
'wpp_start' => '<div id="popularPosts" class="sidebarHelpPages popularPosts" aria-labelledby="helpfulfaqs">
<section class="sidebarHelpTopics"><h2 id="helpfulfaqs">' . $helpfulFaqs . '</h2><ul>',
'wpp_end' => $closerForAside,
);
wpp_get_mostpopular( $args );

Rolling back before 6.1.2 fixes the issue. According to changelog, the only thing that stands out beside classic widget removal is:

“now uses the Tax_Query class to filter popular posts by taxonomy, pretty much similar to how WP_Query does it”

Here is some debug info form my localhost although exact same issue happens on my server which has different php version, I’m using Polylang 3.5.2:

Plugin Configuration

Performance Nag: Inactive

Log Limit: Yes, keep data for 180 days

Log Views From: Visitors only

Data Caching: No

Data Sampling: No

External object cache: No

WPP_CACHE_VIEWS: No
System Info

PHP version: 7.4.28

PHP extensions: Core, bcmath, calendar, ctype, date, filter, hash, iconv, json, SPL, pcre, readline, Reflection, session, standard, mysqlnd, tokenizer, zip, zlib, libxml, dom, PDO, openssl, SimpleXML, xml, xmlreader, xmlwriter, apache2handler, curl, fileinfo, gd, intl, mbstring, exif, mysqli, Phar, pdo_mysql, xsl, xdebug

Database version: 5.7.40

InnoDB availability: DEFAULT

WordPress version: 6.1.4

Multisite: No

I’m still investigating, but if there is anything that stands out would appreciate the help!