Lesson / Course is draft but a lesson entry appears in sitemap.xml of Yoast

Dear Concern

We apologize for the inconvenience you’re facing. The issue you’re encountering is due to the nature of how lessons and courses are handled. Lessons are treated as custom posts, just like courses. When you save a course as a draft, the associated lessons won’t be saved as drafts, but they won’t be accessible by users either. However, SEO plugins can still access them.

To address this, we recommend excluding lessons, quizzes, and assignments from the index settings of your SEO plugin. This will prevent these elements from being indexed by search engines and ensure a smoother experience for your users.

Thank you.

Thank you for the update on the matter.

As I stated on my first post, even if I exclude every content or category type on the Yoast plugin, the lessons that are inside the courses still appear. So the /lesson appears that is referred inside the course.

Let me know how can this be addressed, as what you suggest is already been applied.

Dear Concern,

You are welcome. It seems like issue with the SEO plugin. Please contact the SEO plugin author regarding this issue.

Thank you.