GSC says category sitemap is a 404

Pages weren’t getting indexed so I went to GSC and tried manually submitting them. All but 2 of the blog categories submitted fine. But those two and all the posts in those two categories came back with an error from Google that said the pages had noindex in the metatag which is NOT TRUE.

It was set to noindex until a week ago though.

So I went back to the site, made a simple change to the sitemap settings and saved. Then I resaved the permalinks and submitted the sitemap again. Same error. The category sitemap is missing. But the date is last week. It didn’t appear to update.

Here is one that won’t index. https://blog.californiaskincaresupply.com/blog/business/

Someone in a Facebook Group said this: “Also, because your category sitemap isn’t working, it’s possible that you did fix the robots meta tag, but it can’t crawl those URLs to receive new robots instructions as they are still being blocked from them by the last robot rules, and they haven’t received a new working category sitemap to try again.”

I’m checking with Flywheel to see if they are caching the sitemap. I did flush the cache on the server though.