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“Alternate” tags missing on homepage

  • Resolved peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)


    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Hi,

    WordPress version 5.4 using cctlds with domain mapping
    MSLS Version 2.4.2

    I’ve been using your plugin for about 4 years, amazing job thank you so much!

    I’ve recently been auditing my SEO and realised that the <link rel=”alternate”> tags for the translated pages do not appear in the head of the homepage of each of the sites. Instead there is a <link rel=”alternate” hreflang=”x-default”> tag for the page itself.

    The language switcher on the homepage still works and the pages are linked up in the admin dashboard.

    They are however working perfectly on the internal pages of each of the sites.

    Could this be a plugin conflict or is it a bug in MSLS?

    Regards,
    Peter

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  • danneniko

    (@danneniko)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I’m having the exact same issue. Rolling back to 2.3.0 works fine for me

    peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks that worked, there is obviously a bug in the latest versions?

    There is still an issue however; I have independent websites for Austria and Germany and the alternate tags both display hreflang=”de” where as they should be hreflang=”de-AT” hreflang=”de-DE” respectively. They are both configured in the language settings that way.

    danneniko

    (@danneniko)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Try putting this in functions.php

    // Adjust to the correct hreflang tags in the alternate tags
    function my_msls_head_hreflang( $language ) {
    if ( ‘de_DE’ == $language ) {
    $language = ‘de-DE’;
    }
    if ( ‘de_AT’ == $language ) {
    $language = ‘de-AT’;
    }
    return $language;

    }
    add_filter( ‘msls_head_hreflang’, ‘my_msls_head_hreflang’ );

    Plugin Author Dennis Ploetner

    (@realloc)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I can confirm that I tracked down the bug and I’ll deploy very soon the next update.

    Plugin Author Dennis Ploetner

    (@realloc)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Version 2.4.3 is now in the plugin directory. You could probably use also a more generalized version for the filter:

    function my_msls_head_hreflang( $language ) {
    return str_replace( '_', '-', $language );
}
add_filter( ‘msls_head_hreflang’, ‘my_msls_head_hreflang’ );

    Cheers!

    peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    I’ve updated the plugin and the alternate tags now appear… thank you!

    On the other issue with the tags; I tried placing both of these suggestions in my functions.php but neither had an affect on changing “de” to “de-DE”. I have quite a few of these like “ch-FR”, “lu-FR”, “fr-FR” etc. etc. so it’s important that this is correct from an SEO perspective.

    While I was checking I also noticed that the default <html class=”no-js” lang=”cs” itemscope=”itemscope” itemtype=”https://schema.org/WebPage”&gt; and
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Language” content=”cs”> were set to the admin website for the multisite setup (Czech). Are these generated by this plugin or will this be a seperate issue?

    Plugin Author Dennis Ploetner

    (@realloc)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    The plugin doesn’t change the <html> or the <meta> in question. This could come from the theme (just a long shot).

    I will look for a solution for tags. Maybe I can create something useful in the blog-collection.

    peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Ok thank you I will take a look at where this is being generated from.

    With regard to the “alternate” tags, I am more than happy to pay if this is difficult to develop as a feature.

    danneniko

    (@danneniko)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    peterbisset, is it the HTML lang tags you’re trying to change? if so, try this:

    // Change de to de-DE
if ( get_locale() == 'de_DE' ) {
	// Make this variable global
	global $__language_attribute;

	// Set the language we want to use
	$__language_attribute = 'de-DE'; 

	// Listen for the language filter
	add_filter('language_attributes', '__language_attributes_use_global');

	function __language_attributes_use_global($lang){
	   global $__language_attribute;
	   return "lang=\"$__language_attribute\"";
	}
}
    peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)

    9 months, 3 weeks ago

    Thanks danneniko, I put that in my functions.php but it didn’t seem to work?

    Plugin Author Dennis Ploetner

    (@realloc)

    9 months, 2 weeks ago

    The upcoming version 2.4.4 offers a better solution for the hreflang links that should work good for you. You could test the dev version on Github: https://github.com/lloc/Multisite-Language-Switcher

    peterbisset

    (@peterbisset)

    9 months, 2 weeks ago

    Amazing thank you!

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