Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention.
The option to include images in your sitemap for your categories/tags pages is under Rank Math > Sitemap Settings > General
Could you please confirm if you have already enabled this option? Also, please share your sitemap URL so we can check on our end.
I hope that helps.
Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
I have updated the sensitive data as requested. Can you please check further?
Thank you.
Hello Rei,
Yes, I have enabled this feature.
Sure, I’ll add in sensitive data.
Thank you.
Hello,
I’m not sure whether I fully understand the question.
Assuming, you wish to show the image count in the taxonomy sitemap, all the taxonomies in the sitemaps display the images that are directly added to them.
If there is a product with images in a product category, then the image count would be shown for that product only i.e, in the product sitemap and not in the product category sitemap.
Please let me know if I misunderstood something.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Hello,
The problem is with taxonomies, not with products. I have added a thumbnail and og:image for the Holiday category (it’s first at the sitemap link), but there are zero images in the sitemap.
I hope I explained so that you understand.
Please review this issue.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Hello,
Can you please follow these steps?
1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp
2. 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/
If that didn’t update the sitemap, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress login 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 did that, but unfortunately, it seems like no update.
Ok, sensitive data is updated and giving you permit access to the website dashboard.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you.
Hello guys,
I hope everything is perfect.
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you again and again!
Hello guys,
As I realized it is a bug, will we see a fix for the next update?
Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Thank you!
Hello,
We have the option to include the featured images as well as the images. The featured images setting is pretty self-explanatory but the overall images are just the ones from the actual content.
If the content of your categories doesn’t have any images you shouldn’t expect any images in there. And remember that the products displayed there don’t count as content for that category for images as those are already in another sitemap.
Hope this helps provide further clarity into the situation.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
Hello,
The image is clearly not visible in the sitemap for taxonomies. Although I have specified the featured image, you can og:image check in the categories sitemap, at the very first link.
Thank you.
Hello,
The featured image feature is exclusive for the posts and pages in WordPress and the product taxonomies don’t have that feature, even though you can attach an image to those.
In this case, only images that are in the actual content of those taxonomies would show in that count.
Hope this helps clarify your doubts.
Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.
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.
