We have turned off the French website and don't want any of the French pages to show in the sitemap, therefore we say "no" in the following 2 settings under Advanced: hidden link
However, when we say "yes" to those settings in its English and German counterpart pages, the settings are reverted back to "yes". What should we do so they don't affect each other?
Thanks, your answer is a big time saver.
1. It seems too risky to remove a language so we have never done that. Once you hide a language, redirection will be automatically handled, correct?
2. now we have English and German, is there a way to remove a German page off the sitemap while it's English counterpart remains in the sitemap?
3. Is there an easy way to wipe out all French content? what would be the leftovers after deleting a language?
1. By removing the language from WPML->Lanugages Add/Remove the content is not removed as it is saved in the database.
if you go to WPML->Languages->Hide "desired language" then there is no need to remove it nor delete its content
After hiding the language there wont be any links that link to it and they will all redirect back to default language if you have hardcoded links if that is what you are asking
2. If you want to target only one German page then you would need to delete the page. If you want to target all German pages simply "hide" the language
3. You would have to go to your pages/posts and bulk select then delete your French content under the French tab
For #2 above, let us confirm... there is no way to unindex a page off the sitemap without unindexing all its counterpart pages in other languages, correct?
We are only discussing about page-level settings now, it's confusing.
you answered this earlier "2. If you want to target only one German page then you would need to delete the page", you didn't mention there is an option to go under each language (for the same page) and index them differently, this is something I tried but it failed, back to the original question on top of this thread:
We have turned off the French website and don't want any of the French pages to show in the sitemap, therefore we say "no" in the following 2 settings under Advanced: hidden link
However, when we say "yes" to those settings in its English and German counterpart pages, the settings are reverted back to "yes". What should we do so they don't affect each other?
This "Advanced" are is not a part of WPML but rather Yoast.
and Yoast does not allow this option to be different per language
the best way for you to achieve this with French is to leave this setting to "Yes" and go to WPML->Languages->Hide French, this will remove All the French pages/posts/etc. from your sitemap
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