Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math for help with setting translated pages to ‘noindex’ on your website.
You will have to modify the filter below to set translated pages to noindex:
/**
* Allows filtering of the robots meta data.
*
* @param array $robots The meta robots directives.
*/
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
return $robots;
});
Please contact TranslatePress support for help adding the translation conditions to the code (eg if current language is ‘fr’ then …)
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have questions.
Hi Nigel,
thank you!
We went with the following for now:
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
$url = $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] . $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"];
if(is_single() && strpos($url, '/pt/')) {
$robots["index"] = 'noindex';
$robots["follow"] = 'nofollow';
}
return $robots;
});
Another questions that just came up..
Is there an option / filter to remove exactly those posts from the sitemap?
Hello,
You can use a filter with the same logic for those translated posts:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#filter-sitemap-item
Here’s an example filter you can customize to remove them in your sitemap:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function ( $url, $type, $object ) {
$urls_to_skip = array(
'https://yourdomain.com/redirected-URL-1',
'https://yourdomain.com/redirected-URL-2',
'https://yourdomain.com/redirected-URL-3',
);
if ( isset( $url['loc'] ) && in_array( $url['loc'], $urls_to_skip ) ) {
return false;
}
return $url;
}, 10, 3 );
Hope that helps.
Thank you.
Hi Reinelle,
I’m not sure how to implement that correctly (my knowledge of PHP is extremely limited)
Would I still use
if(is_single() && strpos($url, '/pt/'))
to store all Portugese post urls in the array $urls_to_skip?
How exactly would I use it with your example filter mentioned?
Thanks for your help!
Hello,
When posts are set to noindex they should be automatically be removed from the sitemap.
Can you please follow these steps?
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/
If flushing the sitemap cache does not work, I have adjusted the code snippet to remove sitemap entries
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function ( $url, $type, $object ) {
if ( isset( $url['loc'] ) && strpos($url['loc'], '/pt/')){
return false;
}
return $url;
}, 10, 3 );
Hope that helps. Please let us know if you have questions.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
