Hello again!
TSF outputs a unique sitemap for each language.
You can find the other sitemaps by using the language code (for example, es for Spanish):
example.com/es/sitemap.xml
example.com/sitemap.xml?lang=es
es.example.com/sitemap.xml
In Google Search Console and Bing’s Webmasters Tools, you can submit the other sitemaps.
Thanks for the lightning-fast reply (not being sarcastic)! 🙂
Yup – it’s all there.
Googled, didn’t find that answer.
Thanks again. 🙂
Yea, your inquiry is on top of our list for a new KB entry 😅 almost forgot about that.
Knowledgebase is a great thing – and the easiest one to leave for tomorrow. 🙂
Anyway – sitemaps are acting a bit funny on my Polylang websites.
Tried disabling Cloudflare – so it works as DNS only.
Tried disabling Litespeed cache plugin as well.
Incognito browser window, f12 – network – cache disabled.
Still it shows only one language articles no matter which language I add.
Website is in en and hr, but I can add es – it will show a page – but always the same list of posts – the ones in English (or whichever language is the default one).
Tried renaming robots.txt on the server – didn’t help. These are its contents now:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: https://io.bikegremlin.com/sitemap.xml
Sitemap: https://io.bikegremlin.com/sitemap.xml?lang=hr
Hello!
Each language should have its own sitemap.
I’m not sure why ?lang=hr is used in your case. I’m marking it as a potential bug for inspection.
You can find the other sitemap here: https://io.bikegremlin.com/pocetna/sitemap.xml
Submit that one to Google and Bing, and you’re all set 🙂
That link shows 404 from my browser(s)?
https://io.bikegremlin.com/pocetna/sitemap.xml
As for the language tag, my other language is set to hr (“Croatian” – same as Serbian, only nationalists decided for Serbian to use only Cyrillic, and Croatian to only use Latin script – for the same language, that had both scripts officially when I was at school, and with everyone in Serbia primarily using the Latin script… 🙂 – not going to politics, just explaining why it’s set to Croatian ).
Anyway, it’s no bug.
When I rename robots.txt, TSF puts its own, showing this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: https://io.bikegremlin.com/sitemap.xml
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So no sitemap added for the other languages (default/main is English, the other language is Croatian – hr).
Hi again!
Sorry for my belated reply, I’ve been a bit under the weather 🙁 But I’m all OK now! 🙂
TSF doesn’t supplement other sitemap locations in the robots.txt file, because we cannot accurately assume their locations.
You can submit each unique sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing’s Webmaster Tools. And they will crawl it periodically.
