I see two identical pages in the page-sitemap.xml that shouldn't be there.
The pages are translated pages (of hidden link), that I manually changed the slug after the translation was made. Visiting the pages returns a 404.
The new URL for this page is hidden link (which is also in the sitemap).
The sitemap is attached as screenshot.
This is the page in the sitemap that shouldn't be there (they are 404's): hidden link
I have:
* Disabled Yoast XML Sitemap feature
* Cleared server and page cache
* Re-enabled the XML Sitemap feature
Pages are still showing in the page-sitemap.
I have contacted Yoast support, and they are saying that this is probably an issue with WPML. Can you investigate?
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
First, take note that those Sitemaps are coming from Yoast and WPML does not generate them. Maybe you should ask Yoast Support if there is a way to re-generate the sitemap.
If so, then please make sure to clear the WP Rocket Cache in "All languages".
You example:
hidden link
According to the URL, this would not refer to a translation, but original content that may have existed and then was deleted.
Can you currently recreate the issue with other contents and narrow that indeed the WPML translation is causing this issue?
The steps I mentioned earlier does re-generate Yoast sitemap:
* Disabled Yoast XML Sitemap feature
* Cleared server and page cache
* Re-enabled the XML Sitemap feature
This is what Yoast said in my contact with them:
"The 404 pages wrongly shown in the page-sitemap seem to be wrong pages created by the WPML plugin."
Languages: English (English )Spanish (Español )German (Deutsch )
Timezone: America/Lima (GMT-05:00)
Hello,
I would like to offer to have a closer look at the problem and request temporary access (wp-admin and FTP) to the website to investigate this issue further.
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