Post Page is showing in Posts-sitemap instead of page sitemap

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

The blog page should be created under your WordPress Pages.

Also, since you made that page a “Blog” page for your posts, it will become your post archive page, which will automatically be included in your post sitemap.

However, to remove that page in your post sitemap, you may need to use this filter on your site:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/post_type_archive_link', function( $archive_url, $post_type ){
if ($post_type == 'post'){ // match to the actual post type name
	$archive_url = false;
}
	return $archive_url;
}, 10, 2 );

And here’s how you can add a filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Please confirm if the blog is a physical page and can be edited in the backend. If you want us to take a closer look, please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress 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,

We excluded the blog page using its ID from Rank Math Settings under Rank Math SEO > Sitemap Settings > Exclude Posts.

It now no longer appears in your post sitemap.

Hope that helps, and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello,

Please note that the purpose of the sitemap is to tell Google about your URLs. It doesn’t matter to Google if your URL is on the page sitemap or post sitemap. When you select your Blog page to show your latest posts, it becomes a list of your posts and that’s why Rank Math adds this to the post sitemap.

However, we added a filter on your Code Snippet plugin and now the blog page is appearing on your page sitemap, not in the post sitemap:

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

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.