I cannt get the filters to be triggered

Hello,

Thanks for getting back. Sorry for the delay and any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

I need to remove the archive from the sitemap. Archives will provide links to all posts – if there is a reason why some posts are not relevant to the site, beyond draft status, archives cannot be used.

You can simply set your archives to noindex from WP Dashboard > Rank Math > Titles & Meta. This will exclude your archives from the sitemap.

I need to change part of the url. This would be needed by anyone that customizes their permalinks since your plugin does not use the permalinks for the links (I believe this is a bug since permalinks do not necessary reflect the type/slug.)

Rank Math displays the same URL in the sitemap as you have set in your WordPress. If the URL of your page is type/slug then it will be displayed as the same in the sitemap. If it’s different in the sitemap then please share the URL of the page and login details to your wp-admin dashboard so we can look further into the issue.

Hope this helps. Let us know if you need any further assistance.

Hello,

Thanks for getting back to us.

Here’s an example for the first filter that will change the product archive URL:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/post_type_archive_link', function( $archive_url, $post_type ){
    if($post_type === 'product') {
        return 'https://google.com';
    }
    return $archive_url;
}, 10, 2 );

And here’s the result on the product-sitemap.xml file:

In your case since you mentioned multiple archives, you might need the other filter, using the entry sitemap.

To use that filter you need to do something like this:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object ){
    if($object->ID === 'your_archive_link_id') {
        $url['loc'] = 'https://google.com'
    }
    return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

And if you want to fetch the ID of your links currently on the sitemap you can add a filter like this temporarily to print the ID:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function( $url, $type, $object ){
    echo '<pre>';
    print_r($object);
    echo '</pre>';
    return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

Finally, in order to have this being updated constantly I would recommend that you completely disable any cache on your sitemap by also adding the following filter while working on this:

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

Hope this helps point you in the right direction to fix your sitemap links.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you require any further assistance.