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I’ve tried everything to get my sitemap to update to reflect new posts and pages, but it simply won’t update. I’ve cleared my cache, deactivated WP Rocket, cleared my cache on the server site with my host, cleared my Cloudflare cache. I’ve also excluded the sitemap URLs from WP Rocket and Cloudflare per the other support articles. I’ve gone in and tried to update the sitemap manually with the Permalink save + Sitemap settings save, and that doesn’t work either.
I’m at a complete loss for what to do and my new blog posts all show up as ‘Indexed, Not Submitted’ in Google Search Console because the sitemap won’t update.
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Hello,
Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for the delay and for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.
Could you please share the URLs that are not showing in your sitemaps? You can add them in the sensitive data section
It is completely secure, and only our support staff has access to that section.
Meanwhile, please check this link for more information on why a URL is not included in your sitemap:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/I hope that helps.
Thank you, and looking forward to your update.
Hello,
Could you please check if you have somehow managed to add a custom canonical upon editing the posts? The main purpose of adding a custom canonical to your pages is to let Google know that it is a duplicate page, and not to be indexed.
If you set the canonical manually, your posts/pages will not be included in your sitemap. Here’s a link for more information:
https://rankmath.com/kb/url-not-in-sitemap/#num-2-youve-set-a-custom-canonical-urlAlso, please check with your web host if you have any server caching which possibly still caching your sitemaps.
I 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 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.
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