sitemap

Hello,

To add URLs manually in your product category sitemap, then you may need to use and customize this filter on your site:

/**
 Filter to add extra URLs to the XML sitemap by type.
 *
 Only runs for the first page, not on all.
 *
 @param string $content String content to add, defaults to empty.
 */
add_action( 'rank_math/sitemap/product_cat_content', function() {
return '<url>
<loc>https://website.com/test-product-cat/</loc>
<lastmod>2024-02-29T20:20:20+00:00</lastmod>
</url>';
});

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

Regarding the lastmod date, that is automatically set depending on the date it was modified from your WordPress.

Hope that helps.

Hello,

If you want to change the adjacent link output, you can modify the following filter.

/**
 * Allow the changing of link rel output by Rank Math.
 *
 * @param string $link The full <code><link</code> element.
 * $rel can be next or prev
 */
add_filter( "rank_math/frontend/{$rel}_rel_link", function( $link ) {
 return $link;
});

For example, if you want to change the next link for your web/theme page URL, you can apply the filter like the following one:

add_filter( "rank_math/frontend/next_rel_link", function( $link ) {
    $url = home_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
    if( (strpos($url,'web/theme') !== false) ) {
       $link = '<link rel="next" href="YOUR_PAGE_LINK_HERE" />
';
    }
    return $link;
});

Please make sure to change YOUR_PAGE_LINK_HERE with the actual adjacent link.

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 use the following filter on your website and see if that works for you:

add_filter( "rank_math/frontend/next_rel_link", function( $link ) {
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
	$url = home_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );
    if (is_paged() || (strpos($url,'web/theme') !== false)) {
        global $wp;
        $current_url = home_url(add_query_arg(array(), $wp->request));
        $current_url = preg_replace('/\/page\/\d+/', '', $current_url);
        $link = '<link rel="next" href="' . esc_url($current_url) . '/wp/' . ($paged + 1) . '" />
';
    }
    return $link;
});

add_filter( "rank_math/frontend/prev_rel_link", function( $link ) {
    $paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
    $url = home_url( $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] );

    if (is_paged() || (strpos($url,'web/theme') !== false)) {
        global $wp;
        $current_url = home_url(add_query_arg(array(), $wp->request));
        $current_url = preg_replace('/\/page\/\d+/', '', $current_url);
        $link = '<link rel="prev" href="' . esc_url($current_url) . '/wp/' . ($paged - 1) . '" />
';
    }
    return $link;
});

Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.

Thank you.

Hello,

The last modified date of the taxonomy pages is taken from the last modified data of the most recently updated product/post in the category. There is no other way to fetch that, and if you want to use some other way to get the date, you will have to modify the filter. Such complex modifications fall out of the scope of our support, and you will have to do it yourself or get help from a profession developer.

Please do not hesitate to let us know if you need our assistance with anything else.

Hello,

Thank you for your patience.

We’re not quite sure whether we fully understand your concern about the product category date.

Are you referring to multiple dates inside the lastmod tags?

Looking forward to helping you.