- Status
- Open
- Reported for
- WPML SEO 2.1.0
- Related plugin/theme
- Rank Math SEO
- Topic tags
- Compatibility
Overview of the issue
If you are using the Rank Math SEO plugin, specifically the Pro version with the News Sitemap feature enabled, you may encounter an issue where <news:language> tags within the news-sitemap.xml file incorrectly display the language code of the site’s default language for posts in secondary languages..
Workaround
Please, make sure of having a full site backup of your site before proceeding.
- Open …/wp-content/plugins/seo-by-rank-math-pro/includes/modules/news-sitemap/class-news-sitemap.php file.
- Replace:
$output .= $this->get_news_publication( $renderer );
- With:
//start WPML workaround global $sitepress; remove_filter( 'get_pages', [ $sitepress, 'get_pages_adjust_ids' ], 1 ); $my_post_language_details = apply_filters( 'wpml_post_language_details', NULL, url_to_postid($url["loc"]) ); $xmlString = $this->get_news_publication( $renderer ); $pattern = '/(<news:language>)[^<>]*(</news:language>)/i'; $replacement = '${1}'. $my_post_language_details["language_code"] .'$2'; $modifiedXmlString = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $xmlString); $output .= $modifiedXmlString; //end WPML workaround - In addition, you may also need to disable sitemap caching. To do this, you can add the following line to the functions.php file of your theme:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');