Filter to eliminate non-canonical post versions from posts sitemap

I gave you access to the staging environment.

You can test the stating environment in: https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/

You can check the post sitemap in: https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/pt/post-sitemap.xml

Please check functions.php line 512.

The filter is not working. It should suppress non-canonical posts, but returning false, but it is not doing it

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/xml_post_url’, function( $url, $post){ return false; }, 10, 2 );

Hi, your new filter does not work either.

Could you please have a look in the staging environment to lines 512 ans 521 of functions.php?

Thanks

Please disregard the previous post (you can delete it) and please consider only this one:

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to check functions.php

I used the filter you suggested, but in a different, more simple, way.

There is an if/else structure, that works perfectly.

What is inside the “if clause”, only applies for non-canonical posts, including line 512:

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ){ return false; }, 10, 3 );

What is inside the “else clause”, only applies to pages and canonical posts, including line 521:

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ){ return $url; }, 10, 3 );

$url is the current link

It seems the new filter you suggested is also not working.

Ex: if you check https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/pt/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide/ , you will see on the top left side of the post that it is written: “NON CANONICAL POST!!!” (as written by the wp_head action in the “if clause”), but on https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/pt/post-sitemap.xml, this non-canonical post is still there.

Other examples of this:
https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/es/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide/
https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/en/valuation-avaliar-empresa/
https://staging-capitalinvest.kinsta.cloud/es/valuation-avaliar-empresa/

In summary:
IN THE “IF CLAUSE”, the wp_head action is working, but rank_math/sitemap/entry filter is NOT

IN THE “ELSE CLAUSE”, the wp_head action is working, but rank_math/sitemap/entry filter is NOT

Thanks in advance for your precious help!

Thanks Miguel,

Unfortunately, the example you gave me the logic is inside the filter, I really need the logic outside.

The idea is to use one version of the filter for non-canonical posts, and a differente version of the filter for canonical posts & pages.

The reason, is that this is not the only filter I am using on this external logic (I also use another rankmath filter precisely to add noindex to non-canonical posts, that by the way works perfectly).

Would you be so kind to show me how this filter can work with the logic outside? Ex: can we make a simple comparison inside the filter that is alwaysTRUE?
ex for non-canonical posts (line 512)

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ){ if( $url == $url ){ return false; } return $url; }, 10, 3 );

ex: for canonical posts & pages (line 521)

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ){ if( $url == $url ){ return $url; } return false; }, 10, 3 );

I tried it and it still does NOT work.

Any other suggestion?

Could you please be so kind to help!

Thanks again!

Dear Miguel,

Thanks for your answer, that, being transparent, sounds very strange to me, and that did not respond to my previous questions, nor solve any issue.

Did you take 2 minutes to check lines 512 and 521 of functions.php? Did you read any of my questions?

Could you please answer any of my questions?

I have a couple of additional very very very simple questions to make a very very very simple test to check if any of your sitemap filters really works:

A) This filter when used for all pages (without any outside logic), should eliminate all entries from all sitemaps. Right? Why it does NOT do it?

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/entry’, function( $url, $type, $object ){
return false;
}, 10, 3 );

B) This another filter when used for all pages (without any outside logic), should also eliminate all entries from posts sitemap. Right? Why it does NOT do it?

add_filter( ‘rank_math/sitemap/xml_post_url’, function( $url, $post){
return false;
}, 10, 2 );

Why do you need any logic inside if what you want to test precisely is if the filter works, and really eliminates all sitemap entries?

Could you please give me a single example (ideally on my functions.php file but not necessarily) that proves that any of those 2 sitemap filters really works?

I ask you this, because in all the tests we did, simple and complex, that apparently you did not bother to check, none of those above filters ever worked.

I would be immensely grateful if you could devote 2 minutes to answer to what I asked in this post and in the previous posts, in order to be able solve the issue (your filters do not seem to work) to be able to close this case.

Thanks Miguel,

You are very kind. Really you showed me an example in which the 3 versions (EN, PT and ES) of a posts are excluded from sitemap.

I made many many many tests, and I am still not sure that this filter can work for what we want to do (exclude specific language post version), because I have tried to exclude only one language version (and not the 3 of them, as in your example) and it did not work:

On line 654 is your example.

When I use:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object) {
   if( strpos( $url['loc'], '/pt/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide' ) && $type == 'post' ){ return false; }
   return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

The 3 links (PT, EN, ES) versions of invest-in-brazil-ma-guide post are suppressed from the sitemap

When I use (please note “/en/invest-in…”) :

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object) {
   if( strpos( $url['loc'], '/en/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide' ) && $type == 'post' ){ return false; }
   return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

or when I use (please note “/es/invest-in…”) :

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object) {
   if( strpos( $url['loc'], '/es/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide' ) && $type == 'post' ){ return false; }
   return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

None of the 3 versions are suppressed.

Any suggestion on how this filter could work to suppress only 1 version of a chosen post (and the 3 of them)?

Any other suggestion of filter we could use for this purpose?

Please note that in the example you used:
/en/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide is canonical
/pt/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide is NOT canonical
/es/invest-in-brazil-ma-guide is NOT canonical