I want to use the pages made by Elementor with the TranslatePress Make a truly "searchable" multilingual site? The key is in three things: URL structure, hreflang markup, sitemap linkage. The following is a complete practice from the architecture to the ground, the length of the concise but detailed to directly follow!

1. Architecture first: laying the groundwork for multilingualism

1.1 Selecting a URL schema

Recommended Priority: Subdirectories ＞ Individual Domains ＞ Subdomains

• Subdirectories (examples: /en/, /fr/)
  Benefits: simple deployment, centralized weights, low maintenance costs
  TranslatePress Settings: Settings → General → URL slug selection Subdirectory for each language

• Individual domain names (example: site.fr)
  Pros: extremely localized for countries with mature markets
  Requirements: TranslatePress Pro Multiple Domains per Languageand validate it in DNS/SSL, Search Console, and so on.

• Subdomains (example: en.site.com)
  Medium complexity, need to be added separately to Search Console

1.2 Fixed Links and Classification Structure

• WordPress → Settings → Fixed Links: Using the /%category%/%postname%/ maybe /%postname%/
• Don't use the same slug in different languages;TranslatePress Translate slugs for each article, category, and tag in the
• Avoid Chinese spaces and special symbols; URLs should be in lowercase with short horizontal lines.

1.3 Language Visibility and Default Languages

• TranslatePress → Settings → General
  • Force language in custom links: Turn on to ensure that internal links always have a language prefix
  • Use a subdirectory for default language: It is recommended to turn it on, the default language also has a clear path for hreflang to align with the sitemap.

2. Elementor Configuration: Making Every Component "Readable"

2.1 Translatable and indexable

• Use standard widgets in Elementor for headings, text, buttons, etc. to avoid making entire paragraphs into images
• Image ALTs, link text, and button text are available in the TranslatePress Translation in the front-end visualization translator of the

• When using dynamic fields such as "Site Title" and "Site Description", make sure to set separate values for each language in the SEO plugin.

2.2 Templates and archiving

• Header/Footer, Single, Archive templates need to be tested to see if the multilingual switch drives to the correct category and article.
• Elementor Loop/Query: Categories and tags should use the term ID of the corresponding language; avoid cross-language mashups.

2.3 Performance and Indexing

• On-demand lazy loading of Lottie/video modules for multilingual duplicates
• Content in different languages on the same page needs to be unique: title + first paragraph + internal link differences to avoid "translation without localization".

3. hreflang landing: telling search engines "who's who in whose language"

3.1 Automatic vs. manual

• TranslatePress automatically outputs <link rel="alternate" hreflang="…">
• Checkpoints: each language points to each other, contains self-references, and contains x-default(can point to language selection page or default language)

3.2 Typical examples

Note the use of area codes for regionalization:en-GB,en-US,fr-FRThe URLs should be in the same area as the content or currency/unit of the region.

3.3 Common errors

• Absence of self-references or interlinks to a language version
• hreflang Points to 301/404/address with UTM
• Identical content in different languages and machine translation only, no localization differences

4. Site map: what Search Console can catch counts!

4.1 Who generates the sitemap

• Use Yoast SEO or Rank Math (both adapted to TranslatePress).
• Keep only one SEO plugin for sitemap functionality to avoid duplication

4.2 Coverage of Multilingual URLs

• The sitemap index should list for each language the post-sitemap.xml,page-sitemap.xml et al. (and other authors)
• Open your browser and check: each article <loc> Whether the language prefix is present; whether the corresponding page source code contains the correct hreflang

4.3 Search Console Submission Policy

• Subdirectory model: one attribute to submit a full-volume sitemap
• Separate domain/subdomain model: create separate properties for each domain and submit sitemaps separately
• Crawl statistics: compare the number of "found/indexed" in different languages, and continuously clean up 404s and redirects.

5. Internal links and navigation: sending weight and users to the right language

5.1 Internal linking specifications

• Switch languages before inserting links in the editor, then select the target page
• Unify relative or absolute path policies; turn on TranslatePress' "force language" option
• Category pages, tabs, and on-site search pages should have language prefixes

5.2 Menus and Breadcrumbs

• Maintain separate menus for each language
• SEO plugin's breadcrumb component is multilingual, with paths consistent with URL slugs

6. Redirection, normalization and duplication of content

6.1 Normalized labels (canonical)

• Each language version canonical points to its own URL in the same language.
• Disable canonical to default language.

6.2 Redirection Strategy

• Always use 301 for migration of historical URLs to new language paths
• Automatic language jumping based on IP is not recommended; use of an obvious language switcher is sufficient

7. Images, media and localization details

7.1 Media multilingualism

• Picture ALT, Title, Description Text Translated One by One

• If the image contains English text, prepare the corresponding language version; or use CSS text layer to override it.

7.2 Structured data

• Output the schema of Article/Product with SEO plugin, fill in localized title and description in different languages.
• Price/currency localization should be consistent with the region hreflang; without price, the units and format should be consistent.

8. Testing and troubleshooting checklists

8.1 Page-level checking

• View source: Is there a complete hreflang collection with self-referencing
• Polling language URLs with browser address bar: all return 200, no jump, no noindex
• Does Canonical point to a URL in the same language as this page?

8.2 Site Map and GSC

• Whether the site map coverage equals the total number of published pages (by language)
• GSC Match the "language/region" in the "language/region" expected; manually submit key pages for crawling.

8.3 Performance and Accessibility

• Multilingual pages Core Web Vitals should not be significantly degraded
• The language switcher is recognized by the keyboard and the screen reader.lang Attributes are correct

9. Teamwork and release process

• Content translation (with slug, title, Meta, ALT)
• Localized revisers (units, dates, examples, legal)
• Technical checks (URL, hreflang, canonical, internal links)
• Site Map Refresh and GSC Submission
• Logging: list of new language URLs, redirection tables, point of difference descriptions

10. Quick questions and answers

• Do I have to prefix the default language with something like /en/?

Highly recommended. Unifying path rules simplifies the generation and maintenance of hreflang and sitemaps.

• Is machine translation downgraded?

Translation can be used as a starting point, but localized touches and differentiated content are required; full machine translation with no gain is easily judged as thin content.

• Should the categories and tags be translated?

To. and translate its slug and use the category and tag only in articles in the corresponding language.

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