Exclude all posts from specific categories

#127848
  • Resolved Laura Houx

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hello,
    I’m trying to exclude all posts from specific categories in the RankMath generated Sitemap I have disallowed in robots.txt
    I have entered category ID numbers in Exclude Terms. But I’m not sure this is what I need to do.
    It doesn’t seem th change the post sitemap.
    Should I disallow all posts one by one or is there another option?

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  • Jeremy

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Hello,

    Thank you for contacting the support, and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

    Setting your posts/pages to noindex should be enough to exclude it to the sitemap:

    Gutenberg:
    noindex

    Classic Editor:
    noindex

    After that, the links should disappear in the sitemap pages.

    If you however still seeing the non-indexed links in the sitemap pages, flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
    https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

    Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
    https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    That should fix the issue. Please let me know if that does not. We are here to assist.

    Laura Houx

    3 years, 10 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Thanks. But this would have been way too long as I needed to exclude 150 posts. Instead I have imported post ID thanks to a plugin that displays post ID in WordPress post list. I then importe those in Excel… and created a list of ID to exclude this way
    Thanks

    Uzair

    3 years, 9 months ago

    Hello,

    Sorry for the delay here. We are glad it is working fine now.

    If you need further help or with anything else, please open a new support ticket here so we can help.

    We are always here for assistance.

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