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Dear Rankmath Team,
I am facing an issue with my website sitemap. It is showing an extra URL in post sitemap. That’s why the google search console is showing an error in 1 URL. I request to you that Please remove it. I am sharing a screenshot also by below link :
https://ibb.co/37MKGC9
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math for help with sitemap not working as expected.
To remove the empty link, please follow these steps:
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/If the above steps do not work, 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/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hi Nigel,
Thank you for your reply,I tried both options, one by one. But the issue is not clear.
I can send you my login details, but I don’t know how to take a complete backup of the site.
Please help!Thank you
Hello,
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/
We really look forward to helping you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello,
I tried applying a simple possible solution, however, it doesn’t seem to work. I noticed that your sitemap is heavily cached so I added a filter code to make sure that it is not cached but the issue persists.
Allow me to further investigate this with our team.
We should get back to you shortly.
We appreciate your time and patience in the meantime.
ok Sure, Please take your time.
BEst Wishes
Hello,
This issue is happening because that empty line is reserved for the post archive page and you currently don’t have one on your website.
Please make sure that you head over to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Reading and select a page to hold the posts which would act as an archive page.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hi Miguel,
Thank you so much, it’s done.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.
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