Post sitemap update

Hello, we apologize for the issue you are facing with your post sitemap not updating. It’s important to ensure that your sitemap is functioning correctly, especially after switching plugins.

Here are a few steps you can take to troubleshoot the issue:

1. Flush Permalinks: Sometimes, simply saving the permalinks can resolve sitemap issues. Go to Settings → Permalinks in your WordPress dashboard and click Save Changes without making any changes.

2. Check for Plugin Conflicts: Since you’ve switched plugins, there might be a conflict. You can use the Health Check plugin to identify any conflicts with other plugins.

3. Sitemap Settings: Ensure that your sitemap settings in Rank Math are configured correctly. You can check this under Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings.

4. Clear Cache: If you have any caching plugins active, clear the cache to ensure that the latest version of your sitemap is being served.

5. Submit Sitemap to Google: After ensuring everything is set up correctly, submit your sitemap index URL (usually found at https://yourdomainname/sitemap_index.xml) to Google Search Console again to prompt re-crawling.

If these steps do not resolve the issue, please reply to this ticket, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern!

Hello,

Please follow these steps to flush your sitemap cache:

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/

3. Disable the transient cache for the sitemap by applying this filter. This will make sure that your XML sitemap always reflects the latest changes on your site:

/** 
 * Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
 *
 * @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

If you’re not sure how to add this code, you can follow this guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

If the issue persists, please follow this guide to ensure that your URLs are not getting excluded from your sitemaps:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/

Looking forward to helping you.