Issue With New Sitemaps Being Created

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with the sitemaps on your website. It sounds like a frustrating situation, and we appreciate you providing detailed information about the steps you’ve already taken.

Here are a few suggestions to help troubleshoot the issue further:

1. Check Sitemap Settings: Ensure that all post types are included in the sitemap settings. Go to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and verify that all relevant post types are set to be included in the sitemap.

2. Flush Permalinks Again: Sometimes, flushing permalinks multiple times can help. Go to Settings → Permalinks and click Save Changes again, even if no changes were made.

3. Check for Custom Canonicals: If any of your older pages have custom canonical URLs set, they may not appear in the sitemap. Ensure that these pages do not have custom canonicals that could be affecting their inclusion.

4. Review Robots.txt: Check your robots.txt file to ensure that there are no rules blocking the older pages from being indexed or included in the sitemap.

5. Inspect Server Configuration: Since your site is on a LiteSpeed server, ensure that it is configured correctly to handle dynamic sitemaps. You might need to consult with your hosting provider for specific configurations related to LiteSpeed.

6. Check for Errors in Sitemap: Use tools like Google Search Console to check for any errors related to your sitemap submission. This can provide insights into what might be going wrong.

7. Manual Sitemap Generation: As a last resort, you can try manually generating a sitemap using a different plugin temporarily to see if it captures all pages correctly.

If these steps do not resolve the issue, we recommend replying to this ticket with any additional details or errors you encounter, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will take over and assist you further.

Thank you for your patience, and we hope to help you resolve this soon!

Hello,

If those older posts are missing from your sitemap, then they must be set to noindex or have a custom canonical URL with them.

Here’s a link for the common reasons why a URL is not included:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Could you please apply the following filter to your site to disable the transients cache for the sitemap and see if that works for you:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

Here’s how you can add a filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

If the issue persists, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

Please do take a complete backup of your website before sharing the information with us.

It is completely secure and only our support staff has access to that section. If you want, you can use the below plugin to generate a temporary login URL to your website and share that with us instead:

https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/

You can use the above plugin in conjunction with the WP Security Audit Log to monitor what changes our staff might make on your website (if any):

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-security-audit-log/

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

We’re delighted to hear that this issue has been resolved. We appreciate your feedback.

This ticket will be closed now, but if you ever have another question or need any help in the future, please don’t hesitate to create a new forum topic. We’ll be more than happy to assist you again.

Thank you.