My sitemap is not updating.

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap not updating. It seems like you’ve already taken extensive troubleshooting steps, which is great. Here are a few additional suggestions that might help:

1. Check for Custom Canonicals: If you have set custom canonical URLs for your posts, they may not appear in the sitemap. Ensure that you remove any custom canonicals if you want all posts to be included in the sitemap.

2. Disable Transient Caching: If you haven’t already, you can try adding the following filter to your theme’s rank-math.php file to disable transient caching of your sitemap:

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

3. Review Robots.txt: Ensure that your robots.txt file is not blocking the sitemap. You can check this in Rank Math SEO → General Settings → robots.txt.

4. Check Server Configuration: If you’re using Nginx, ensure that the rewrite rules are correctly set up in your Nginx configuration file as mentioned in our documentation. If you’re on Apache, check your .htaccess file for the correct rewrite rules.

5. Submit Sitemap to Google Search Console: After making changes, make sure to resubmit your sitemap URL to Google Search Console to see if it fetches correctly.

If these steps do not resolve the issue, we recommend replying to this ticket with your site URL so that a human agent from our support team can assist you further. Thank you for your patience!

Sources:
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Rank Math XML Sitemaps on NGINX Servers » Rank Math

Hello,

Glad that helped.

If you have any other concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us anytime so we can assist you further.

Looking forward to helping you.