How to exclude portfolio archive in sitemap.xml

Hello,

Thank you for getting in touch and we are sorry to hear about the issue you are facing.

You can exclude Post types/Taxonomies by going to your WordPress Dashboard > Rank Math SEO > Sitemap Settings. If it’s a Post Type, it should be under the Post Type category:

However, if you don’t see it there, then you would need to apply a filter code since this is a dynamically generated archive page. Please refer to the code below:

add_filter('rank_math/frontend/robots', function ($robots) {
	$url = home_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
	if (strpos($url, '/aduro') !== false) {
		$robots['index'] = "noindex";
		$robots["follow"] = 'nofollow';
		return $robots;
	}
	return $robots;
});

You may refer to this guide on how to add filters to your website: https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

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

Hello,

In that filter, the archive pages would be set to noindex when they load in the browser.

However, if you wanted to remove them from your sitemap manually, please try the filter in the sensitive data section instead.

Once done, follow the steps in this link to flush the 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/

And add this filter to your active child/theme’s functions.php file:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

Hope that helps.

Thank you.

Hello,

The filter in the sensitive data section should only exclude the URLs mentioned, and not set them to noindex.

Also, applying the filter in either the rank-math.php file or your child theme’s functions.php file should work.

If you want, we can apply the filter on your site to ensure that they are working properly.

To do that, 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.

Thank you.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

I’ve checked your sitemaps, and the /en/ and /fr/ archive URLs were already removed by using the filter I have previously shared. But the main site archive is still included as this is the default behavior of the sitemap.

However, I have already applied the filter below to exclude that specific URL from your portfolio sitemap

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/post_type_archive_link', function( $archive_url, $post_type ){
if ($post_type == 'avada_portfolio'){
	$archive_url = false;
}
	return $archive_url;
}, 10, 2 );

You can now check the sitemap as well as those portfolio archive URLs are already removed.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

Apologies for the inconvenience with that option.

However, to set those archive pages to noindex, I have added this filter in your rank-math.php file:

/**
 * Allows filtering of the robots meta data.
 *
 * @param array $robots The meta robots directives.
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/frontend/robots', function( $robots ) {
     if(is_post_type_archive('avada_portfolio')){
         $robots['index'] = "noindex";
         $robots['follow'] = "follow";
     }
	return $robots;
});

This affects only the archive of the portfolio, and they are removed from your sitemap as well.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

We are super happy that this resolved your issue. If you have any other questions in the future, know that we are here to help you.

If you don’t mind me asking, could you please leave us a review (if you haven’t already) on https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/seo-by-rank-math/reviews/#new-post about your overall experience with Rank Math? We appreciate your time and patience.

If you do have another question in the future, please feel free to create a new forum topic, and it will be our pleasure to assist you again.

Thank you.