[Waiting for user feedback] Subject: Bug report: WPML SEO 2.2.5 not filtering permalink context for Yoast sitemaps (WooCommerce ...

Hi WPML support,

I'd like to report a bug with WPML SEO 2.2.5 and its integration with Yoast SEO Premium on a WooCommerce site.

Setup:
- WPML SEO 2.2.5
- Yoast SEO Premium (latest)
- WooCommerce with product categories in the URL structure
- Languages: Swedish (original) and English
- Product base slug: Swedish = "produkt", English = "product" (correctly configured in WPML slug translation)

Problem:
When Yoast generates the product sitemap, English product URLs are generated using Swedish category slugs instead of their translated English equivalents. For example:

Sitemap generates: /en/product/matinstrument/temperaturmatare/temperaturgivare/product-name/
Correct URL should be: /en/product/measuring-instruments/temperature-gauges/temperature-probes/product-name/

This causes Google Search Console to report indexing issues due to redirects, since the incorrect URLs redirect to the correct ones.

Root cause:
The WPML language filter does not appear to be active when Yoast iterates through products to build the sitemap. As a result, get_permalink() falls back to the original language (Swedish) for category slugs, even though the post type base slug ("product") is correctly translated.

Workaround:
The only working solution was a mu-plugin that manually switches the WPML language context for each sitemap entry via wpml_switch_language before calling get_permalink():

add_filter( 'wpseo_sitemap_entry', function( $entry ) {
if ( ! isset( $entry['loc'] ) ) return $entry;
if ( strpos( $entry['loc'], '/en/' ) === false ) return $entry;

$post_id = url_to_postid( $entry['loc'] );
if ( ! $post_id ) return $entry;

$english_id = apply_filters( 'wpml_object_id', $post_id, 'product', true, 'en' );
if ( ! $english_id ) return $entry;

do_action( 'wpml_switch_language', 'en' );
$correct_url = get_permalink( $english_id );
do_action( 'wpml_switch_language', 'sv' );

if ( $correct_url ) $entry['loc'] = $correct_url;
return $entry;
}, 10, 1 );

This should not be necessary if WPML SEO correctly sets the language context during Yoast's sitemap generation.

Please investigate whether this is a known issue and if a fix is planned for a future version of WPML SEO.

Best regards,
Tommy
Nordtec Instrument AB