Split: hreflang and missing pages issues in sitemaps

This is the technical support forum for WPML - the multilingual WordPress plugin.

Everyone can read, but only WPML clients can post here. WPML team is replying on the forum 6 days per week, 22 hours per day.

This topic is split from https://wpml.org/forums/topic/about-fs-code/

Tagged: Compatibility

This topic contains 1 reply, has 0 voices.

Last updated by Itamar 8 months ago.

Assisted by: Itamar.

Author	Posts
August 24, 2025 at 12:30 pm #17343113
maxw-14	3. I just encountered a new problem. After I finished translating one page, the map of the website didn't show this page. url: hidden link (hidden link) show 15 links (hidden link) should be 18 links. For example, I have already finished translating "about" page into German, (hidden link) However, the sitemap still shows that the "About" page has only one English version. 4. The hreflang in the XML sitemap seems to be incorrect. I modified the code according to the documentation and also changed hreflang to de-DE in WPML, but it still didn't work. (hidden link) Added the code (hidden link) Modified the hreflang settings in WPML and changed it to de-DE. (111.png) de-DE no show
August 24, 2025 at 12:46 pm #17343158
Itamar WPML Supporter since 02/2016 Languages: Hebrew (עברית ) Timezone: Asia/Jerusalem (GMT+03:00)	Hi, In this ticket, I'll help you with the Rank Math issue. I've just checked the sitemap of your site's pages here: hidden link. It seems to be alright now. I see 18 pages, including the About page. Please see the attached screenshot 18-about.jpg. Also, when I inspect the source code of the sitemap, I can see the hreflang is alright and shows de_DE. Please see the attached screenshot de_De-ok.jpg. I assume it took time to get updated, or you need to click some settings in Rank Math to update the sitemap. Or maybe a caching issue. Can you please confirm that the problem is solved now? By the way, the problem should have been solved by now in WPML SEO 2.2.3. Please ensure to update our plugins to their latest versions. Reference for this please see here: https://wpml.org/errata/wpml-seo-incorrect-hreflang-value-in-sitemaps/ Please share your site's Debug information if you need further help with this issue. You can read about it here: http://wpml.org/faq/provide-debug-information-faster-support/ Regards, Itamar.