Remove hreflang

[shahmanish877]

How can we remove hreflang in head?

<link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="www.example.com" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ne" href="www.example.com/ne/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="www.example.com/ar/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="nl" href="www.example.com/nl/" />
<link rel="alternate" hreflang="fr" href="www.example.com/fr/" />

I tried
function remove_hreflang_tags() { remove_action( 'wp_head', 'language_attributes' ); } add_action( 'init', 'remove_hreflang_tags' );

but that didn't do anything.

[herrvigg]

This has been requested in #1039 but it's a wider topic related to #668 so it's still on hold.

The language_attributes, is meant for another usage so this won't be possible with that filter.

[shahmanish877]

Any other way to remove it?

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[herrvigg]

The output happens in:

qtranslate-xt/src/frontend.php

Line 58 in 4e32d61

echo '<link hreflang="' . $hreflang . '" href="' . $href . '" rel="alternate" />' . PHP_EOL;

So you can change that locally in your website repo as a workaround.

But why do you want to remove this? If your website supports these languages you should tell the SEO where to find the alternative languages.

[shahmanish877]

It's for one of my clients so I have to add what they ask. They said it's temporary.

[herrvigg]

If you want a quick and easy fix, add simply a return; here before the block that outputs the <link> tags. You still need the function for the echo <style> above.

qtranslate-xt/src/frontend.php

Line 42 in 4e32d61

I understand this is not ideal but I prefer to come up with a proper fix and not have a filter that changes.