Rank Math HTML site map order by Menu order

Hello @doobeedoo,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math support.

The sort option we currently have can be applied to websites generally.

Since not all website has the menu you’re referring to, we don’t have the option to sort the HTML sitemap by that order.

However, you can use and customize this filter to sort the HTML sitemap via your menu order:
https://rankmath.com/kb/filters-hooks-api-developer/#change-html-sitemap-sort-order

You can also share the HTML sitemap URL so we can check your menu and suggest the filter to achieve that.

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

Thank you for your answer

Menu order is a WordPress core feature, it’s not something specific to my site

Another of your user has the same issue here:

The default WordPress pages have an ordered field under page attributes. I would like to order the pages within the HTML sitemap using this order value.

https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/html-sitemaps-2/

It would be nice if RankMath would take into account this WordPress core “sort by” field for the HTML sitemap

My website is on localWP, so I cannot send you the URL, but it’s pretty straightforward: order HTML sitemap by menu order

In the code you provided:

add_filter('rank_math/sitemap/html_sitemap/sort_items', function ($sort, $type, $name) {
return $sort;
}, 10, 3);

What should I change to be able to sort the HTML sitemap by Menu order?

Thanks in advance for your help

Kind regards

Hello,

Thank you for your suggestion we have logged it to our Internal to-do lists.

For now, please change the order by adding the following filter code to your theme’s functions.php file:
add_filter('rank_math/sitemap/html_sitemap/sort_items', function ($sort, $object_type, $post_type) { if ( $post_type === 'page' ) { // Add here the post_types you want to change the sorting. $sort['field'] = 'menu_order'; $sort['order'] = 'ASC'; } return $sort; }, 10, 3);
Hope that helps.