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6 errors in category sitemap on search console. I deactivated all plugins, but nothing changed
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Hello,
Thanks for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
I checked your sitemap and it’s working fine. Can you please share a screenshot of the errors that you are getting for your category sitemap? You can use https://imgbb.com/ to share the screenshots.
Meanwhile, please follow these steps:
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp2. 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/Then remove all previously submitted sitemaps from your GSC account and resubmit your main sitemap(sitemap_index.xml) and wait for Google to crawl it.
That should fix the issue. Please let me know if that does not. We are here to assist.
Hello,
Thanks for getting back.
I can check that the date format is incorrect for some of your categories. We might need to take a closer look at the settings. 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,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Backup done as requested.
Thanks for helping meHello
Thank you for getting back to us.
Upon checking your categories I noticed they do have an odd date on the yearly format as you can see in this screenshot: https://i.rankmath.com/yHfjUM
This is the reason why there are errors on your search console. I have gone ahead to try to troubleshoot this issue but the health check does not seem to work.
Your theme as well can not be changed as it is most likely possibly causing the issue here as they are known to manipulate the dates in various content.
I would recommend that you troubleshoot all your plugins one by one and also the theme you are using. While doing so please ensure you flush the sitemap to get updates upon a change.
Also for us to further check this issue you need to grant us permission to install the default theme and troubleshoot your plugin.
Hope this helps. We are looking forward to helping you more with this.
Thank you.Hi, I did what you suggested me. It was a plugin…i delayed it. it seems that all the dates are now correct….but I still have the same mistakes…. Any further ideas?
thanks for your replay
Hello,
I’ve checked your category sitemap, and it seems that the dates are already correct.
In this case, please remove all your submitted sitemaps and resubmit your main sitemap only /sitemap_index.xml.
Then give Google some time to recrawl your whole site.
I hope that helps.
Thank you.
Ok, thanks, let”s try…. Thanks a lot!
Hello,
Let us know how it goes.
Meanwhile, if you have any other questions, please feel free to ask.
We are here to help you.
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Hello,
Thanks for getting back.
Can you please confirm if your issue is resolved or do you need any further assistance with this?
We are looking forward to hearing from you.
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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