Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Kindly ensure that you enter the individual custom field (post meta) names that contain image URLs to include them in the sitemaps.
An example of this would be my_custom_image_url_field but the exact field would depend on how you have set it up.
If still not possible, you can use the following filter to include the images from the Custom field:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#remove-change-images
Here is an example:
https://github.com/rankmath/seo-by-rank-math/blob/master/includes/modules/woocommerce/class-sitemap.php#L31
Hope that helps. We really look forward to helping you more.
Thank you.
Let me give an example that will hopefully help:
I have a post titled ‘Taco Bell’ that has an image gallery attached to it as described previously.
In the wp_posts table, for post_title=’Taco Bell’, the ID=9588
In the wp_postmeta table, for post_id=9588 there are various meta key/value pairs. One of those is meta_key=’project gallery’, with meta_value=’9591,9592,9593,9594,9595′ etc. These are post IDs.
So if, for instance, I look up ID=9591 in the wp_posts table, it has a post_type=’attachment’ and post_mime_type=’image/jpeg’. The GUID for this post has the image URL. Additional, if you lookup this post in the wp_postmeta table, you’ll find the wp_attached file (file name) and the _wp_attachment_metadata (serialized array of thumbnail info)
Therefore, I don’t have a custom field name with an image URL. I have a custom field name with a list of Post IDs, which in turn indirectly reference Image URLs.
Hello,
Thank you for getting back to us.
Upon further clarification have come to a realization that Rank Math is not able to support some gallery plugins. Normally Rank Math uses the images added in the main content area of the post or taxonomies.
Rank Math reads and decodes the default WP gallery shortcode but not another custom gallery within the post editor section.
In your case here you seem to be using ACF from JetEngine and we believe that the plugin has a custom implementation of ACF that prevents Rank Math from seeing the content.
Therefore at the moment, the plugin is able to read images from the gallery and include them in the sitemap.
I would recommend that you contact the JetEngine plugin team and ask them to add the compatibility code to their plugin.
Hope this clarifies your doubts. Let us know if you have any other questions.
Got it, thanks Brian, I’ll contact the team from Jet Engine and see what they say.
Hello,
Thanks for your follow-up.
Sure, please let us know how that goes.
Also, If you have another question in the future, please feel free to reach out, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.
Thank 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.
