Joast ignores our Translation Plugin’s urls in the sitemap. Are they incompatible? Can I not use Joast, or manually add them? What is easiest for the owners (not WordPress Savvy mainly interested in easily changing food menus and adding new pages themselves)?

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I am a marketing intern for small family run restaurant – mainly focusing on SEO and fixing issues with Google indexing right now.

We translate into two languages, so there aren’t many pages to manually add, however it needs to be as easy to use as possible. Potentially, without Joast might make it easier for the owners, who also will at some point want another existing restaurant website backend to match this (I am not involved with that atm).

**Details**

I was going to add the sitemap to Google Analytics (I can only add URL prefix to Google Analytics due to DNS verification and needing to explain to the owners what this means etc.), but I feel like adding Joast may have affected the links in tbe sitemap.

Joast redirects “www.[domain]/sitemap.xml” to “www.[domain]/sitemap_index.xml” with an Index File named and directing to “www.[domain]/page-sitemap.xml”.

This Page Sitemap file only contains the original language pages, including newly added pages. Also, only the newly added page has 1 “image”, and I am not sure if I need to do anything to that as I haven’t worked with sitemaps in this way before.

The owner who changes the website, at some point wants both wordpress backends to match (one I am working on uses Elementor and Astra) to easily understand how they can change restaurant menus and sometimes add photos. While I understand they won’t regularly need to use the sitemap feature, I think it should be as simple to access as possible, and not require them to change it themselves, which may mean ignoring Joast, but I am not sure the best way to do this.

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