Remove old, redirected URL from sitemap

Hello,

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

Please note that our plugin doesn’t remove the URLs with redirections from the sitemap by default.

If you are redirecting the page to a different one, you will need to set the old page to noindex by following this guide to remove it from the sitemap: https://rankmath.com/kb/how-to-noindex-urls/

After that, you can follow the steps below to clear your 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/

Hope that helps and please don’t hesitate to let us know if you have any other questions.
 
Thank you.

Hello,

In this case, please try adding this filter to remove the URL manually on your sitemap:

add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/entry', function ( $url, $type, $object ) {

        $urls_to_skip = array(
                'https://yourdomain.com/redirected-URL-1' // URL to be removed
        );

        if ( isset( $url['loc'] ) && in_array( $url['loc'], $urls_to_skip ) ) {
                return false;
        }

        return $url;
}, 10, 3 );

Please change the URL to the actual old page URL in the code.

And here’s how you can add a filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Let us know how this goes.

Thank you.