Automatic hreflang tags

Hi there,

does your theme call wp_head()?

Kind regards,
Thorsten

Thanks for your response, Thorsten. Yes, the theme does call wp_head()

Sorry, I have worked out the issue. I was expecting the hreflang meta to show as soon as the plugin was activated, but I see that you have to manually associate posts first. Having over 300 posts, I was hoping to avoid manual work!

For anyone interested, here’s how I did it in the end.

In functions.php,

function my_hreflang_tags() {

    /*
     *   Add hreflang tags to head
     */

    // Get the permalink
    $the_old_link = get_permalink();

    // Create 2 localized versions of the permalink for use in the hreflang tag

    $the_new_link_gb = str_replace( '/gb', '/us', $the_old_link );
    $the_new_link_us = str_replace( '/us', '/gb', $the_old_link );

    // Print it out

    echo '<!-- Hreflang tags -->';
    echo '<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-US" href="' . $the_new_link_us . '">';
    echo '<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en-GB" href="' . $the_new_link_gb . '">';

}
add_action( 'wp_head', 'my_hreflang_tags', 1 );