Sitemaps for other languages Weglot

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

Please note that Rank Math usually only handles adding the default language to your sitemap. Other languages are handled automatically by the translation plugin you use by adding a hreflang into each page automatically so that Google knows that it is a translated version of some other page.

It is not a must that you have the translated pages in your sitemap. This is perfectly fine and as per guidelines set by Google:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/crawling/localized-versions

However, if you still want, you can follow this guide to create a custom sitemap: https://rankmath.com/kb/custom-sitemaps/

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Could you please share the full code of your custom-sitemap.php file? You can paste it using this tool and share the generated link here.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

The code you’re using for your custom sitemap is not correct. Please try to use the following code on your custom-sitemap.php:

<?php

namespace RankMath\Sitemap\Providers;

defined( 'ABSPATH' ) || exit;

class Custom implements Provider {

	public function handles_type( $type ) {
		return 'custom' === $type;
	}

	public function get_index_links( $max_entries ) {
		return [
			[
				'loc'     => \RankMath\Sitemap\Router::get_base_url( 'custom-sitemap.xml' ),
				'lastmod' => '',
			]
		];
	}

	public function get_sitemap_links( $type, $max_entries, $current_page ) {
		$links     = [ 
			[ 'loc' => 'http://www.mydomain.com/fr/' ], //change URL here with the actual URL you want to include on your sitemap 
			[ 'loc' => 'http://www.mydomain.com/de/',],
		];

		return $links;
	}

}

After that please try to use the following code on your theme’s function.php:

include_once 'custom-sitemap.php';
add_filter('rank_math/sitemap/providers', function( $external_providers ) {
	$external_providers['custom'] = new \RankMath\Sitemap\Providers\Custom();
	return $external_providers;
});

Once done, please try to clear your sitemap cache by following the steps below:

1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

You’ll be able to see your URLs on the custom-sitemap.xml like this one:

If you still face any issues to include the custom sitemap then you can share your WordPress and FTP logins with us in the sensitive data section so that we can do this for you. Also, please share the URLs you want to include on your custom sitemap.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

Sure! Let us know how it goes.

Meanwhile, please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.

Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.