Translatepress

  • Resolved rik1234

    (@rik1234)


    2 years, 6 months ago

    Hi,
    we are having some trouble setting up the SEO framework with our site that is translated via Translatepress. Your “Translation plugin compatibility” help-page mentions that “Other translation plugins, such as TranslatePress, are also compatible, but some features like improved sitemap flushing support are missing.” So we are trying :). However, there appears to be an issue both with the sitemaps and the robots.txt file.

    1. sitemaps
    Your “Translation plugin compatibility” help-page mentions that “The SEO Framework outputs a unique sitemap for each language. It is the only correct way to deal with multilingual sites”. However, we appear to have only 1 sitemap, at https://beaverz.org/sitemap.xml. We have pages in English and in Dutch, so we would expect sitemaps at https://beaverz.org/en/sitemap.xml and https://beaverz.org/nl/sitemap.xml, but these both give a 404.

    2. Robots.txt
    We are not sure if there should be separate robots.txt files too, or whether there should be one. We thought one. However, if we go to the url https://beaverz.org/robots.txt, it automatically redirects to https://beaverz.org/en/robots.txt and there lists a message “# This is an invalid robots.txt location. # Please visit: https://beaverz.org/robots.txt” .
    If we manually go to https://beaverz.org/nl/robots.txt, there is a similar message but in Dutch.

    Can you help?

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    Hi Rik,

    1. This feature is not supported for TranslatePress because they do not store copies of translations as separated pages. You must rely on the hreflang meta tag, which TranslatePress outputs. (I actually answered this question here recently.)
    Please note that proper internal linking is much more important than a sitemap.

    2. Go to “Settings > TranslatePress > General” and set “Use a subdirectory for the default language” to “No.” Frankly, TranslatePress ought to detect whether WordPress tries to output the robots.txt “file” and prevent this behavior; feel free to forward this issue to their authors.

    I hope this helps!

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