Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
Unfortunately it is not possible to hide/rename the Sitemaps generated by Rank Math.
However, if you want, then you can change the base of the sitemap URL using the following filter in your active theme’s functions.php file:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#change-sitemap-base
You can set it up like this:
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/base_url', function( $base ){
return 'anyword/';
}, 10, 1 );
And your sitemap URL will be:
https://domain.com/anyword/sitemap_index.xml
You can add the code in the theme’s functions.php file or with the Code Snippets plugin.
Here is a guide you can follow:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Hope this helps and let us know if you need help with anything else.
Hi:
Thanks for the reply.
I tried adding the above code in the code snippet editor and modifying ‘anyword/’ (anyword to a word of my choice). But its now returning ‘page not found’ error.
Do you have any idea why that could be?
Thanks,
Hello,
Please follow these steps to regenerate the sitemap and update the links:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. 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/
3. Clear your website’s cache and browser’s cache.
If that doesn’t help, please share the domain of the website so we can check if everything seems to be loading fine.
Hope this helps solve your issues.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hi Miguel:
Flushing the cache did the trick. Thanks a lot for your’s and Sharmin’s support!
Regards,
Hello,
We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.
If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.
If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank you.
