Transposh is an excellent free translation plugin for WordPress. Also YOAST SEO is an excellent SEO plugin for WordPress. But there is an incompatibility problem with each other when YOAST sitemap files produced.
The problem is YOAST doesn’t see the pages produced by Transposh and doesn’t add them to sitemap_index.xml. As a result, no search engine see your translated pages. This can be fixed by adding your translated pages to search engines one by one (eg. by Google Search Console) but this is not a practical solution. This was exactly what I was living at IZREVIEW
Thanks to Vidyut Gore. She has prepared a fix for the problem in 2018 but since then both Transposh and YOAST SEO plugins released many new versions and Vidyut’s solution is not working now.
When I realized that, I started to update the “patch” and I released a Transposh-Yoast sitemap problem solution. As a date of 19.4.2020, version of Yoast SEO is v13.5 and Transposh is v1.0.6.1 and this patch is working fine. But if Yoast or Transposh release a new version, that might change. Here is the Transposh – Yoast sitemap incompatibility problem solution as of 19.4.2020:
How to Solve Yoast – Transposh Sitemap Problem
As of 1.10.2020, YOAST released v.15 version and below solution is *not* working now.
If you have any problem or comment, feel free to leave a comment below.
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Thanks. I’ll update my post as well, so that those who were using the earlier fix may find the new one. I stopped updating the site I was using Transposh on, so neglected to update the fix. Much appreciated.
Thank you for your contribution.
replace this file with the version 15+ file, and your sitemap will have all the languages
i am no magician, i basically took the 14.6 changed file, and overide the 15 version file
Hi,
I can’t publish file location, but If you provide what you have changed, surely I’ll check and publish it.
Sincerely.