We are using WordPress with WPML and WooCommerce (2 languages).
By default, in the site markup we have: <html >
This outputs:
From an SEO perspective, we need the HTML attribute to be:
We checked WPML language settings and only see the following options:
Language name
Code
Translation
Flag
Default locale
Encode URLs
hreflang
Language mapping
We do not see any option that allows changing the output from en-US to en.
Could you please confirm:
Is there an official WPML setting or a recommended approach to output lang="en" instead of lang="en-US"?
If there is no built-in option, is it acceptable and safe to override this behavior at the theme level using the language_attributes filter?
We see that this can be achieved with the following filter:
add_filter( 'language_attributes', function ( $output ) {
if ( defined( 'ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE' ) ) {
$output = preg_replace(
'/lang="[^"]+"/',
'lang="' . esc_attr( ICL_LANGUAGE_CODE ) . '"',
$output
);
}
return $output;
}, 99 );
Could this approach have any negative impact on WPML functionality, language handling, or SEO-related features such as hreflang?
Thank you in advance for your clarification.
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