Remove a theme template XML from sitemaps

Hello, I have quite a few things I am having trouble removing from sitemaps. I am using the ahref audit tool. One of these is an XML file that references theme template files, all of which need to be removed from sitemaps, and none of which are editable themselves. So editing their Yoast > Advanced settings is not an option. https://focusedsketchup.com/gva_template/crowdfunding-archive-template/ is one. So i’d like to if possible just remove that sitemap from the main sitemap.

Here you can see that URL is from /gva_template-sitemap.xml

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then you can see that sitemap is in the sitemap_index.html:

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So how can i remove /gva_template-sitemap.xml from /sitemap_index.xml? I can code so happy to use any snippets, but didn’t seem like any of these would apply: https://developer.yoast.com/features/xml-sitemaps/api/#exclude-specific-posts

Also tried this for another error for the shop page but don’t see how i can use it for this. I guess i could use that code in that link with the page_ids for this and the others but if i can just exclude the sitemap from the sitemap, that would be better.

Any thoughts or advice?
Thanks,
Ben

• This topic was modified 4 months, 2 weeks ago by benjaminblue.