WP Multilang & Yoast SEO compability

@jodurson how did you solve the problem? We faced the same situation and really upset about this …

@alexeypoltavets
Unfortunately, we did not solve this problem at full.
Two factors played: the lack of support from the plugin developer and the client’s unwillingness to engage in the project.
And I can’t see the project sources – the site has already been deleted and there are no backups left.
Sorry.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by jodurson.

Thank you for your comments!

What I understood from you, the problem does exist, even when the compatibility between WP Multilang & Yoast SEO is declared by the WP Multilang developer. Not good at all …

You mentioned that the problem wasn’t solved in full. Did you manage to fix at least some functions for SEO in different languages? How much work did this cost you?

I am trying to understand if it’s a good idea to push our developer to fix this problem, or it’s better to move to another plugin like Polyling or similar which is compatible with the Yoast…

I think it’s all good with plugin. The problem is with theme customization. you should make some config.

I solved similar problems with Avada theme and woocommerce too.

• This reply was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by dmzw.

We found that the problem exists only for Yoast Premium which we purchased, but not for the free version.
I contacted Yoast support, they confirmed the issue, I hope the Premium version will work as good as the free version soon …

Ok, Yoast support gave some technical details, please, see below

“Thank you for your patience while we investigated this issue. Upon reviewing the available integrations for WP Multilang, they offer integration with Yoast SEO free but do not include integration for the premium version (screenshot below). If they offered integration with Yoast SEO Premium, we would expect to see a second line referencing ‘wordpress-seo-premium’ as that is how they defined the available integration for Advanced Custom Fields free and pro versions.

Unfortunately, the best advice we can provide is to contact WP Multilang and request integration with Yoast SEO Premium as this is something they must define in their available integration code.

Please let us know if you have any questions; we’re happy to help.”

Do we have any chance that the Multilang developers would fix this?

@valexar Is there any chance that the plugin gets support for Yoast Premium?
Paid development / donation?

Hi all,

I recently bought Yoast SEO Premium and I am having the same issues as mentioned here.

However, whilst WP Multilang and Yoast SEO Premium work fine in standard pages, it is in the WooCommerce Product Pages and Tags where the language of the Titles and Snippet description doesn’t change to the other language. It only keeps one language.

I subscribe to this topic. I hope @valexar can give us some answers soon. I really like WP Multilang but it is a bit shocking that there is no any update of this plugins for so long ??

Hi again,

After checking that with Yoast the issue couldn’t be solved, I got a refund from them and I decided to try another Seo plugin.

I found out that with All in One SEO Pack premium this problem is not happening. It gives you meta and descriptions in both languages, so great!

Dear @kirasunn, thank you for keeping us informed!
Did you check how the “All in One SEO Pack premium” plugin in combination with WP Multilang works with sitemaps?
Did you get pages in all languages mentioned in the sitemap?

I’m considering moving from Yoast to another SEO plugin. Your tip about “Alle in One Seo” is very valuable for me.

Hi, @alexeypoltavets

Yes, I checked the sitemap SML and it is created only in one language, English.
I asked the support team about the issue and their response was that they don’t have full language support for WP Multilang in their XML Sitemap, but they’ll be adding this in a future release…..

Regarding the issue with the switching languages, I have a new update. ??

As I mention in the previous post, with AIO you have both languages already in the SEO Titles & Descriptions if in the settings > advanced settings > you select Autogenerate Descriptions. Well, that was a first step that I didn’t have with Yoast in WooCommerce.

The problem was that if I tried to create my custom content, then it happened the same as in Yoast, only one language was saved.

I was very frustrated about this, first thought was about changing the multilingual plugin, but then I realized it was going to be a mess for me as I am not a web developer and also after reading about other alternatives I wasn’t really convinced about the migration..(I like WP Multilang after all and I hope the author will come back to us soon :-))

Then, talking with the AIO support team about editing TAGS and PAGES they mentioned the codes that WP Multilang uses. I was already familiar with this and I thought

If Multilang works with these codifications [:en] Your text in English [:es] Tu texto en espa?ol [:]

why not to use this in the SEO Title and Descriptions of WooCommerce Product Pages as well?

So, I created my custom content for each language and copied in the meta descriptions (you have to copy the texts in both languages) using the codes.

I tried in a WooCommerce product page and OMG it works perfectly (you only need to make sure the product page is already published, so the SEO will be saved correctly in both languages. I think this is happening because until you don’t publish the product you don’t have the final URL).

This will display the languages correctly with your custom content included!.

Maybe this works in Yoast as well, it is only a question of trying! But in AIO it works for sure!.

On the other hand, what I noticed with Yoast is that the pages when editing took a long time to load and with AIO they load faster.

Also, the SEO system is totally different. In Yoast for what I experienced, you are almost “forced” to use similar KW on and on and the content is sometimes a bit artificial (not to mention the time an effort it takes to finish successfully a page according to the double green criteria)

The AIO support team confirmed that is not necessary at all for doing a good SEO. In fact, checking at their documentation, they say:

“Use Keywords
Use Keywords is set to Disabled by default. This is because Meta Keywords hold little or no value in today’s SEO. This post from Matt Cutts at Google explains why they no longer value them.

However you may feel differently and wish to use them. If you do wish to use Meta Keywords on your site then select Enabled next to Use Keywords”.

Here is the post: https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2009/09/google-does-not-use-keywords-meta-tag.html

So, in summary, I am not an expert on SEO, but I think I am going to maintain the AIO plugin for the moment. ??

Cheers and take care everyone!

I have checked post history and realised that in previos versions description field was saved as:
[:en]English text[:ru]Русский тескт[:]

Now field is saved without tags, and saved only one of the translations- latest.
Also if you will manually add tags, they will be stripped. So, i just think this is Yoast issue, some text validity checker os something like this. Yoast just cant insert [:en] or whatever flags it to db for some reason.