Title: Assorted hreflang errors
Last modified: November 17, 2016
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# Assorted hreflang errors
* Resolved [alegenoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alegenoa/)
* (@alegenoa)
* [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/)
* Hi guys, great plugin!
* Google sent me a message about hreflang return tags missing.
On my English
version blog, blumudus.com, the 2 problem pages are behaving as indicated in
this thread: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hreflang-on-paginated-blog-pages/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hreflang-on-paginated-blog-pages/)
* But on my Italian version, blumudus.it, there are 14 problematic tags.
* In total they are highlighting 57 hreflang tags used, of which 16 are said to
contain errors.
* On blumudus.it the pages with problems are: about, privacy, the 5 category pages,
the paginated home pages and 4 blog articles.
* I can’t really say how come only 4 articles, and only those specific 4, are affected.
If you exclude the exception of “page 2” and “page 3”, all the other pages affected
are listed in the Google report with their correct counterpart, e.g.
* Origin URL: /2016/my-1st-twitter-block/
Alternative URL: [http://blumudus.it/2016/il-mio-primo-twitter-block-trump/](http://blumudus.it/2016/il-mio-primo-twitter-block-trump/)
* Hence my confusion about what’s wrong there and how can I fix this with a comprehensive
approach, also preventing future articles from being flagged.
* Thanks for your attention.
* Regards.
Alessandro Grasso
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* [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/)
* (@tfrommen)
* [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8462597)
* Hi there,
* I’m sorry, but I don’t follow.
* You have several reported hreflang tags due to paged pages, right? This can be
solved with the code snippet in the other thread that you linked to.
* Then, you also have problems with, for example, the About page…? That’s no wonder,
because the English page at [http://blumudus.com/about/](http://blumudus.com/about/)
lists for Italian the URL [http://blumudus.it/chi-sono/](http://blumudus.it/chi-sono/).
When you go to that URL, however, the English counterpart is said to be found
at [http://blumudus.it/bluemood/about/](http://blumudus.it/bluemood/about/) (
instead of [http://blumudus.com/about/](http://blumudus.com/about/)). So, why
is this `.it/bluemood/` instead of `.com/`? That’s another (sub-directory) site
in your network, right?
When I (try to) go there, I get redirected to [http://blumudus.com/about/](http://blumudus.com/about/).
* Please have a look at your sites, and at the reported posts and pages, and their
according translations. If everything looks okay, feel free to report back with
a little more information. 🙂
* Thanks,
Thorsten
* Thread Starter [alegenoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alegenoa/)
* (@alegenoa)
* [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8547077)
* Strange, I got email notifications for some other topics in this forum, but I
missed this reply… I assumed you had no answer for it. Yesterday I just solved
the problem, now I come here and… voilà! You were pointing me to it 3 weeks ago!
Stupid me!
* Of course, the problem was that in the netw. admin settings the directory was
still indicated, instead of the .com pointing to it!
* For some reason Google was testing only some of the pages, thus creating the
false impression that only part of them had problems!
* Thanks anyway!
* Thread Starter [alegenoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alegenoa/)
* (@alegenoa)
* [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8560196)
* Ahem… I’m still here… I tried the solution proposed in the other topic [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hreflang-on-paginated-blog-pages/](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hreflang-on-paginated-blog-pages/)
i.e.
* ```
add_action( 'wp_loaded', function () {
if ( is_paged() ) {
add_filter( 'mlp_hreflang_html', '__return_empty_string' );
add_filter( 'mlp_hreflang_http_header', '__return_empty_string' );
}
} );
```
* both with the “Code Snippets” plugin, and with a tentative inserting it directly
in the functions.php, but the paginated pages still return the hreflang relative
to the homepage.
* Am I the only one bothered by this? Google Webmaster tools seems to make a big
deal of it.
Anyway, I don’t understand how the code you suggested isn’t executed.
* [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/)
* (@tfrommen)
* [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8567842)
* Hi there,
* what exactly is not working (as you would like it to)?
* Are you visiting a paginated post/page/archive (on a page other than the first
one) and you still see `` tags in your markup?
* Are you using some sort of caching (e.g., a page cache)?
* Best regards,
Thorsten
- This reply was modified 9 years, 5 months ago by [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/).
* Thread Starter [alegenoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alegenoa/)
* (@alegenoa)
* [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8568840)
* Hi,
the problem is that Google insists I’ve got a bunch of hreflang errors:
http headers without return tag.
* On page 2 of the home, it still points to the generic home page, even after putting
that code to fix it, as I said.
* ```
```
* I plan to cache pages in the future, not for now. I’m behind Cloudflare free,
so that html is not cached (and the problem isn’t going away even after a few
days).
* Additionally, for some reason Google indicates further errors. After I corrected
the setting, substituting the directory path by putting the domain: [http://blumudus.com/about/](http://blumudus.com/about/)
in place of the old [http://blumudus.it/bluemood/about/](http://blumudus.it/bluemood/about/),
well, the tags are correct,
* ```
```
* but Google insists on reporting a hreflang error on blumudus.com, with this indication:
/
category/science-tech/ corresponds to [http://blumudus.it/category/scienza-tecnologia/](http://blumudus.it/category/scienza-tecnologia/)
* I don’t know what to say…
Thanks for your patience!
* [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/)
* (@tfrommen)
* [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8570856)
* Any chance I could have a look at both your WordPress and your server (meaning
either FTP or SSH, if you have that)?
In case you want to provide any login
credentials, you can do so via mail to: [support@multilingualpress.org](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/support@multilingualpress.org?output_format=md)
* I don’t know the _Snippets_ plugin, but maybe it executes the code too late,
so the `wp_loaded` has already been fired…?
But if you also tried and put the
exact same code into your theme’s `functions.php` file, this really should be
working… :/
* Thread Starter [alegenoa](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alegenoa/)
* (@alegenoa)
* [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8643262)
* Problem solved!
Many thanks, it seems that Google Search Console was just very
slow in its assessing the effect of the corrections. They still marked a wrong
tag 2 days ago, after a whole month… Anyway, I’ve also appreciated that the pagination
issue was resolved with the latest plugin update.
* Thanks again!
* [Thorsten Frommen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tfrommen/)
* (@tfrommen)
* [9 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/assorted-hreflang-errors/#post-8649811)
* Oh, that’s great. 🙂
* You’re welcome.
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