Sitemap not updating

Hello,

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

You can set those pages as no-index and then force the sitemaps to refresh by going to the WordPress Dashboard > Settings > Permalinks and resaving the permalinks.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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Hello,

In that case, we might need to take a closer look at the settings. Please edit the first post on this ticket and include your WP logins in the designated Sensitive Data section.

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,

Rank math usually has a default caching mechanism which is flushed when a new post is published. It is likely your sitemap were being cached this way. I added the following filter to disable this and now your sitemap should update just fine:

/**
 * 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_true');

If the issue seems to persist, please share some of the URLs you wish to remove from sitemap so we can test check from our end.

Looking forward to helping you. Thank you.

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