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The plugin generates a page link in the sitemap which should not be there.
Let’s say you have got 3 languages in your website, you create 3 pages and set them as the respective language homepage.
You create the pages with some title as you can’t create a page in WordPress without a title, say, “Site.Com in German”, “Site.com in Nordic”, “Site.com in English” – and when you set each as Homepage, they become Site.com/en, site.com/nl, site.com/deFrom WP’s perspective, those are homepages. They don’t have their old titles anymore, they should not have their old Permalinks either.
But your plugin disregards that – it still generates permalinks for the old page names and that can’t be fixed.
This is a bug and should be fixed.
If a page is set as the homepage in any WPML language, its permalink should be the respective permalink it actively has. Not its old one.
Now, with your current set up, Google gets confused and creates a wrong URL in its index, not the actual permalink. This URL returns 404! and the language page gets penalized.
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