problem no index in forum

[Francisco Richarte]

Hello friends.
I have a serious problem, most of my forum content is not indexed in google.
Google tells me: the tag · “noindex” has been detected in the “robots” meta tag
More than 1500 pages are not indexed in google.
I suppose this is because my site uses the structure of a forum and not that of a normal blog.
The problem is that I can’t find where to modify the non-index tag.
robots.txt is correct, that’s not the problem.
any solution?
Thank you!

Site: https://forocomprasonline.com

[Michael Davis]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.

Your sitemap file is returning a 404 error but all your forum posts have been set to index. Could you please do the following:

1. Head over to WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks

Hit the save button once.

2. Go to WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math > Sitemap Settings

Hit the save button once.

That should fix the issue.

If it doesn’t, please do let us know so we can look at this further.

[Francisco Richarte]

Hello, I have already done the first step:

For the sitemap I don’t use the one from the RankMath plugin.
The forum creates its own properly functioning sitemap.

How do I know if the problem has been solved?

In the google search console coverage it tells me that as of yesterday May 5 the pages continue with the noindex.

Thanks!

[Francisco Richarte]

The forum creator tells me this:

“First I’d like to say that you’ve killed all your forum SEO using rank math seo plugin. This plugin was compatible a wile ago, but in recent versions it has changed something and become incompatible. I see all your forum and topic titles are affected and all those are the same site URL. There is no dynamic titles on forums and topics. “

[Rank Math]

Hello,

Sorry to hear that.

Which forum Software are you using?

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

[Francisco Richarte]

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wpforo/

[Todd]

Hello,

We have taken a closer look at this and it appears that the WPForo team has changed the priority of the WP hook in their plugin. The priority of wp hook should be 11, now it is 10. It basically means that Rank Math’s meta is NOT taking priority over wpForo’s meta.

Please contact wpForo team and ask them to change the priority back to 10. Here is a code can provide the wpForo team which will fix this issue immediately:

add_action( 'wp', function() {
	if ( ! wpforo_feature( 'seo-meta' ) ) return;
	if ( is_wpforo_page() ) {
		if ( defined('RANK_MATH_FILE') ) { // Rank Math SEO
			add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/remove_credit_notice', '__return_true' );
			remove_all_actions( 'rank_math/head' );
			remove_all_filters( 'pre_get_document_title', 15 );
			add_action( 'wp_head', '_wp_render_title_tag', 1 );
		}
	}
}, 11 );

Hope that helps and please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

[Francisco Richarte]

Thanks! I communicate it to the forum

[Michael Davis]

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math today.

I am glad that this info was helpful 🙂 Please let us know if we can help further.

Thank you.

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