TranslatePress Sitemap Support

  • Dr. Melvin Temo

    (@temovision)


    3 weeks ago

    I will like the generated urls from the translated URLs to be included in the default sitemap. How is that possible? So far, I am unable to do so.

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    2 weeks, 3 days ago

    Hello!

    I also received your emails (I noticed something went wrong with the form, but that’s not important now); I’m replying here so the answer is public too.

    The SEO Framework doesn’t merge translated URLs into the default sitemap. The optimized sitemap is designed around language-specific sitemap endpoints: each sitemap should list URLs for the requested language, rather than mixing all translations into a single default-language sitemap. I detailed this here: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/69.

    TranslatePress doesn’t store translated pages as separate WordPress posts/pages in the database. Instead, it translates the page output/string-by-string. Because TSF’s sitemap is generated from WordPress content records, we cannot yet reliably enumerate TranslatePress’s translated URLs for separate language-specific sitemap endpoints.

    Not having URLs in the sitemap doesn’t prevent indexing of the (translated) pages, nor does it affect ranking.

    TranslatePress outputs hreflang links and translated permalinks directly on the pages. Google treats those page-level hreflang links and (our dismissed) sitemap hreflang annotations as equivalent methods, allowing search engines to discover and index the translated versions through crawling.

    Still, I’m tracking improved support for the TranslatePress sitemap endpoint here: https://github.com/sybrew/the-seo-framework/issues/615.
    This feature is currently proposed for the next TSF update. But I’ve fallen behind schedule, so it may move to the update after that.

    Thread Starter Dr. Melvin Temo

    (@temovision)

    2 weeks, 3 days ago

    Thanks so much for your reply and sorry I had to contact you via your website on this same matter.

    Ok this is clearly understood.

    I saw a page on the translatepress website enumerating the seo sitemap plugins compatible with them: https://translatepress.com/best-wordpress-sitemap-plugins/. Is it that they’re not opening up to make it easier for The SEO framework?

    I will be waiting. Hopefully you will figure it out in the next update. Regards

    Edit: Regarding the form lol, it kept on asking me to fill in my last name, despite the name being there. SO had to refresh the page and refill everything before it went through. lol

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