How to use robots.txt, sitemaps and different language files?

How to setup a different language for a specific blog? I’ve already uploaded the wp-content/languages/ language files, but I don’t know how to change the config.php language line for a specific blog.

you don’t.

You go to Settings -> General and pick the language for that blog.

Where to put my robots.txt and XML sitemap? How can I access the blog’s root without the /files/ directory in the middle of the URL?

You don’t.

you get the right xml sitemap plugin (if you really need it – I rarely use them) and it handles it virtually.

And what are you using robots.txt for? Usually one will do, and internal blog settings handle the rest.

Thanks, Andrea. Yeah, having the main robots.txt handle everything makes perfect sense. Don’t you use anything at all to generate/update your sitemap every time you update or post something?

Don’t you use anything at all to generate/update your sitemap every time you update or post something?

No, because google just reads the home page or rss feed anyway. Look in the google webmaster tools section, for the “use feed as sitemap”.

Also, I’ve found in a network setup, over the past however many years, google sees how stuff changes on those so quickly, it comes back and hits the server almost excessively. I;ve even had to block it short term on some of my setups.

I don’t recommend sitemap plugin unless I have absolute proof google has skipped specific URLs on the site(s).

I’m probably the only person who says installing a sitemap plugin from the get-go is not needed. ??

Yeah indeed, but at least you’re the very first person I know to perfectly explain why people should not use them at all. Also, it makes perfect sense — why should we have a redundant XML-structured sitemap if its main goal is replicated on the RSS feeds?

Thanks, Andrea. I’m always happy when I learn something new and useful ??

Well, maybe not “should not use them at all.” More like “think and make sure you actually need it first”. ??

So.

Where’s my pralines? ??

I should definitively send you some to Canada! ??