Hello, I’m sorry to hear that your XML sitemap isn’t updating after March 27th despite updating articles. There could be a few reasons for this issue.
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Post Excluded from Sitemap Settings: One reason could be that the updated articles are excluded from the sitemap settings of Rank Math. You can check and adjust this by going to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and ensuring that the updated articles are not excluded under Exclude Posts.
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Empty Archive Page Exclusion: If the updated articles belong to a category or tag archive page that is empty, they might be excluded. To include them, navigate to Rank Math SEO → Sitemap Settings and enable the Include Empty Terms option in your category/tag/custom taxonomy archive settings.
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Caching Issue: Another reason could be that your sitemap is being cached. You can exclude the sitemaps from caching by following the steps mentioned here.
If you’ve checked these settings and the issue persists, please feel free to reply here, and a human agent from the Rank Math Support team will assist you further. Thank you for raising this concern.
Sources:
Why Isn’t My URL Included in the Sitemap? » Rank Math
Rank Math Sitemap Issues and Their Fixes » Rank Math
Troubleshooting the “Couldn’t Fetch” Error in Google Search Console » Rank Math
Hello,
Thank you for contacting us and sorry for any inconvenience that might have been caused due to that.
Can you please try to follow the steps below and see if that works for you?
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/
3. If the above steps don’t seem to work, kindly apply the following filter to your site.
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');
Here’s how you can add filter/hook to your WordPress site:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/
Let us know how it goes. Looking forward to helping you.
Thank you.
Hello,
Since we did not hear back from you for 15 days, we are assuming that you found the solution. We are closing this support ticket.
If you still need assistance or any other help, please feel free to open a new support ticket, and we will be more than happy to assist.
Thank you.
