Page Sitemap not updating

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  • Resolved Quinn Rusnell

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Rank Math free

    Hi. I had an issue with a new Page created not getting added to the Page Sitemap. I checked all of your suggestions from https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/, but none of them resolved the issue. I wasn’t sure whether pages needed to be linked to menus or not to get included, so I added it to the mobile menu, but it still wasn’t showing.

    What ended up working was going into the Rank Math Sitemap Settings for Pages, turning it off, Saving, and turning it back on again. Seems like it could be a glitch or bug.

    The website I was working on is https://accessable.ca. It is hosted on SiteGround and has all the latest WordPress updates. It uses SiteGround Optimizer for its caching, which I cleared several times. I also added the recommended url exclusions as suggestion on your help page. So I”m pretty confident it was not a caching issue in this site’s environment.

    Anyway, you can just take this as a report. My only question, which I couldn’t find anywhere, is whether Rank Math needs Pages published on Menus in order to show in the Sitemap or not. I’m guess not.

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  • Jeremy

    3 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

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

    No, the page doesn’t need to be linked from the menu to include it in your sitemap.

    This seems to be just a caching issue from your end. It is common that the sitemap is heavily cached in some setups that’s why we created this guide: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

    With that said, to further exclude your sitemap from being cached, you may apply this filter code to your theme’s functions.php file and flush the sitemap again by following this video screencast.

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

    Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you on this one.

    RankBot

    3 years, 6 months ago

    Hello,

    Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.

    If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.

    Thank you.

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