[Closed] Noindex specific language without hiding it

Hi,

Thank you for contacting WPML support. While you are waiting for one of my colleagues to take this ticket and work on it, let me provide you with the first debugging steps and try to help with the issue quickly.

You can manually set pages in 2nd language to no-index via an SEO plugin, for example, Yoast SEO or can adjust some custom code for example fetch language, and if the language code is DE, print in HTML header no-index snippet.

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Hope this helps.

Regards,
Drazen

Hello There,

I hope you're doing well. I have taken over this ticket and would be happy to assist you further.

Since you're using the Rankmath plugin, you can select multiple pages or posts in the language you want to set to 'noindex' in bulk, and apply the 'no-index' robot meta to those pages. For more detailed instructions, please refer to the guide below.

While WPML does not have a direct setting to apply a 'noindex' meta tag for an entire language, the only possible way I can suggest is by bulk-selecting pages or posts and setting them to 'noindex'. Alternatively, you can implement a custom coding approach to automatically set 'noindex' for all content within a specific language. For example, the code below will add 'noindex' meta to the page that contains the French language code(fr):

function set_noindex_for_specific_language() {
    $current_language = apply_filters('wpml_current_language', NULL);
    if ($current_language == 'fr') {
        echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex, follow">';
    }
}
add_action('wp_head', 'set_noindex_for_specific_language');

In this way, you can also prevent contents for a specific page from being indexed.

I hope you can understand. If there is anything else you'd like to share, feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Prosenjit