Support to Yoast Seo (no index)

Hello @track77

We will try to make compatibly with Yoast SEO no index feature with coming updates, or at least to find a universal solution for this.

Currently, you can temporary use our Exclude Pages/Posts feature. We know that it’s difficult to select a lot of Pages/Posts with feature and especially since you have already setup Yoast no index for those Pages.

You will receive a reply to this topic when this compatibility will be released. Hope it will be very soon.

Best regards

Hi @track77

We have recently released a new update (v 1.4.7) with feature Yoast SEO noindex support. Now Pages, Posts with meta _yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex are excluded from Sitemaps.

Please update your plugin to the latest version and this feature will work for your Sitemaps ??

Best Regards

Thanks for your update but these posts still avalible in the sitemap even after I clear the cache

https://3d-kstudio.com/forum/filepathfinder-news/filepathfinder-light-v-3-21-57/
https://3d-kstudio.com/links/
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZLUTEVZJqX34hoqpMQ4QabLgAcviLmnfy17

in the database these posts also marked as no-index
meta_key meta_value
_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex 1

Seems FilePathFinder is a bbPress topic, exclude feature was added for Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types. We will check this for bbPress topics also.

However, https://3d-kstudio.com/links/ seems standard Page, so this filter should exclude the page – https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/xml-sitemap-generator-for-google/trunk/includes/hooks.php#L41:

if ( '1' === get_post_meta( $post_id, '_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex', true ) ) {
    return false;
}
....

Please clear our plugin’s Cache also under Settings > XML Sitemaps > Advanced > Cache. If you have enabled the Cache feature.

Also, could you please clarify if there are correctly excluded links or if the filter doesn’t work at all?

The problem occurs because both filters have the same priority.

sgg_exclude_yoast_noindex_posts must have higher priority

// hooks.php 
add_filter( 'sgg_exclude_post', 'sgg_exclude_yoast_noindex_posts', 100, 3 );

// class-exclude.php
add_filter( 'sgg_exclude_post', array( $this, 'exclude_post' ), 100, 3 );

After changing the priority all work as expected

Very strange, something seems to be conflicting before changing the settings. We will check this situation deeper.

Best regards

Please also add support to no_index for categories and other types of links

Hello @track77

We have released an update (v 1.4.8) with this improvement. Please update your plugin and let us know if you need any improvements else.

Thank you for helping us ??

the plugin still shows excluded pages

I wrote above how to fix this

Hello @track77

We have changed the sgg_exclude_post hook priority to 99 in https://plugins.trac.www.ads-software.com/browser/xml-sitemap-generator-for-google/trunk/includes/hooks.php. Please check if everything is okay.

Best regards