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July 25, 2025 at 12:04 am #17269666
yvesB-21	Background of the issue: I am trying to generate a sitemap for other languages using WPML. Symptoms: The sitemap for other languages is not being generated as expected. Questions: How can I generate a sitemap for other languages using WPML? What could be causing the sitemap not to generate for other languages?
July 25, 2025 at 12:05 am #17269669
yvesB-21	Rank Math generates the default Sitemaps only and WPML takes care of the rest. When a search engine bot visits any post/page, it is shown hreflang tag that helps it crawl the translated pages. This is one of the recommended methods by Google. Please read here this is what rank math is saying, i need more information regarding this. i was using gtranslate and had multiple sitemap for each language but with having wpml, how does it work?
July 25, 2025 at 1:17 am #17269760
Kor WPML Supporter since 08/2022 Languages: English (English ) Timezone: Asia/Singapore (GMT+08:00)	Thank you for reaching out to WPML support. While one of my colleagues picks up this ticket, I’d like to provide some initial debugging steps and see if I can assist you right away. As mentioned here https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/optimize-multilingual-websites-using-rank-math-and-wpml/#sitemaps-and-wpml , WPML handles multilingual sitemaps and hreflang tags automatically. You don’t need to take any action. Please make sure you've followed the getting started section here https://wpml.org/documentation/plugins-compatibility/optimize-multilingual-websites-using-rank-math-and-wpml/#getting-started , especially the WPML SEO add-on that needs to be installed. Furthermore, to help speed up the support process, I've enabled a private message for submitting the debug information for this support ticket. Please follow these initial debugging steps: https://wpml.org/faq/provide-debug-information-faster-support/ In short: - Go to "WPML > Support > Debug Information" (link) - Copy the Debug Information from there. - Find the private field I activated and paste that information.
July 26, 2025 at 12:29 pm #17272498
yvesB-21	thanks