Missing Product Categories in Sitemap

@pandamedia

We’re sorry to hear that you’re having issue with the sitemap displaying the categories in the product category sitemap.

Can you please provide us example categories link that appears missing in the product category sitemap? Also, when you say some categories aree”hidden”, would you elaborate further?

Hi,

So here is the sitemap:
https://www.chausson-rigolo.fr/product_cat-sitemap.xml

Here are the categories that are not appearing in it:
https://www.chausson-rigolo.fr/chausson-drole/
https://www.chausson-rigolo.fr/chausson-fantaisie/
https://www.chausson-rigolo.fr/chausson-humoristique-et-humour/
https://www.chausson-rigolo.fr/chausson-original/

By “hidden”, I mean from a SEO point of view.
Otherwise they are accessible normally.

PS: I would appreciate my URLs to be hidden after we will find a solution to the problem

• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by pandamedia.
• This reply was modified 3 years, 11 months ago by pandamedia.

@pandamedia

Hi, we can see the site is using Yoast SEO Premium. We ask that you please send us an email to [email protected]. That way we can review account settings privately and respond to your issue. You can link back to this topic in the response.

We will also work on hiding these URLs here too.

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Hi,

I actually have the same problem with Yoast regular version, nothing changes.

I put the regular version back and I would appreciate you to answer the issue here as it could help other users troubleshooting ??

Thanks in advance

Hi,

While we may need to provide support in our premium helpdesk, we would like some more information.

A. If you go to a product-category in question and scroll down and find the Yoast metabox and click on advanced does it show YES in the Allow Search Engines field? See https://ibb.co/QPMh87c

B. If so, go to SEO-General-Features and disables the XML sitemap. Doing so will not hurt the SEO of the site.

C. Then clear all your caching from your theme, plugin, server, CDN like CloudFlare or browser. If you are not sure how to clear caching from theme/plugin please speak to those authors. If you want to clear cache from the server, please speak to your host provider. To clear the cache from a browser use this guide: https://yoast.com/help/how-to-clear-my-browsers-cache/

If you are using a caching plugin please exclude the sitemaps from caching. This guide explains more: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-cache/

D. Then save.

E. Then re-enable the sitemap.

F. Then clear the caching one last time.

G. Do the missing product categories appear on the sitemap?

@pcosta88

I finally found the culprit which was : “Hide WooCommerce Categories On Shop Page”

It seems that is messes up with Yoast.

About my URLs showing up in thread, you mentioned “We will also work on hiding these URLs here too.”, can you help in the end? It seems it is not possible.

We are afraid to say that we won’t be able to hide the URLs that you have submitted here as the WordPress forum doesn’t allow us to do. In this case, we recommend you please reach out to the WordPress Slack #Forum Channel to see if any forum moderator can help you with this.

@mazedulislamkhan
Already did that but they don’t want to.

I will close the issue cheers.