Compatibility between Yoast SEO plugin and WPML
Yoast SEO and WPML are fully compatible. Together they let you run multilingual SEO properly: translated SEO titles and meta descriptions, per-language XML sitemaps, and correct hreflang. Both teams test new releases jointly.
- Compatibility
- Recommended Compatible with WPML
- Functionality
- SEO
- Developer
- Yoast
- Version tested
- 27.8
- Last tested by WPML
- June 11, 2026
- Known issues
- 6 unresolved issues
Yoast SEO helps you optimize your content for keywords, phrases, synonyms, related keywords. You can check the readability of your content and see previews of what your posts and pages look like in Google results and social media shares.
With Yoast SEO, you also have full control over your breadcrumbs and can set canonical URLs to avoid confusing search engines with duplicate content.
Yoast SEO Pro can help even more with features like internal linking suggestions, content insights, and a redirect manager.
This plugin requires the WPML SEO glue plugin for full compatibility.
Known issues
Current unresolved issues:
- WordPress SEO – Issues translating Yoast SEO term meta
- Yoast SEO Premium- When saving and editing product category in secondary language, a redirect rule is created
- Yoast SEO Premium – Redirection UI Validation Conflicts with WPML URLs
- Yoast SEO – Incorrect og:url Meta Tag on Translated Author Archives
- Yoast SEO – Redirection RegEx Rules Differ Across Languages with WPML
- Yoast SEO – Meta field synchronization does not work for fields set as “copy”
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Translate Yoast SEO content with WPML
WPML translates the content this plugin creates and manages, along with the rest of your WordPress site.