Hi,
WP Meta SEO is integrated with WPML and Polylang (some new feature will be added in the next version regarding that). I don’t know about other plugins.
In fact a sitemap is generated automatically by our plugin but you are not forced to give the sitemap URL to Google. In this case your sitemap won’t be used neither detected at all by Google and the wrong URL won’t be detected.
How did you see that it can be wrong for your SEO?
Cheers,
Hi there,
Unfortunatelly I have noticed to late that the URLs in the sitemap are wrong. AFTER I had already submitted the sitemap to Google.
I have once manually adjusted the sitemap contents but your plugin regenerates it and overwrites it so that soon enough, the sitemap included again the wrong URLs.
How is it bad for SEO? Of course it’s bad as long as you have some faulty URLs in the sitemap which lead to a 404 … while the correct ones are left outside.
I am sorry but I do not like either Polylang or WPML, I just do not like how those plugins work. I eventually chose sublanguage because it’s a much ligher plugin and it really does much more than the others do in terms of translation, without overcluttering the admin.
Problem with the sitemap is that the generated URLs for woocommerce products look like this
http://www.mysite.com/%product_cat-slug%/myproduct
instead of http://www.mysite/mycategoryname/myproduct
so I have that bit of code “/%product_cat-slug%/” inside the uRL which is not properly parsed by your plugin.
Other than that your plugin works nicely with my language plugin, that’s why I would like to keep it. Other than the sitemap functionality which I want to fully deactivate to be able to use some other plugin for sitemaps alone.
Can you please tell me which bit of code should I erase and where, in order to achieve that?
Thx
Hi,
What the URL of your sitemap please?
We will check the compatibility and see if we can something about that.
Thanks.
Hi,
Thanks a lot.
If you can give me an email I can send you the url too, however, I think I’d prefer to just deactivate the sitemap function … possible please?
Thanks 🙂
This is not currently possible to disable the feature but the sitemap is only regenerated when you save the sitemap configuration and the link to the sitemap is dedicated to our plugin: /wpms-sitemap.xml
We’ll check the Sublanguage plugin compatibility.
Cheers,
HI,
Ok, thanks !
For now I have commented out this line
require_once( WPMETASEO_PLUGIN_DIR . 'inc/class.metaseo-sitemap.php' );
just in case 🙂
Please let me know if you did some progress with the sublanguage.
Thanks!
