Remove Author From Sitemap

Hello,

Please head over to your WordPress admin area > Rank Math > Titles & Meta > Authors, and set the Author Robots Meta to No Index:

Once done, please follow the below steps and see if that removes the author sitemap:
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/

In case the sitemap still exists, please head over to your WordPress Dashboard > Users, and edit the users.

Then, scroll down and from the Advanced tab of Rank Math’s SEO Meta Box, set the Robots Meta to No Index. This should remove the authors from the sitemap and eventually the author sitemap.

Hope this helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

Please enable the Author Archives, then enable Author Robots Meta > Check index checkbox

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

We might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WordPress & FTP logins 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.