Why was Sitemap Excluding Post/Pages moved?

  • So, before you could just go to a page or post and set it to never be included in the sitemap. Nice and convenient and easy to find.

    Now you have to look up the Post ID and then go to the Sitemaps settings and add it to a comma separated list there which could get unwieldy over time with the small single text field there.

    Was it moved for performance reasons, since it definitely doesn’t seem to be an ease-of-use decision.

    If you want to group all in one place, maybe instead of a manually entered text field, list all the titles separated into sections for Posts, Pages and other Custom Post Types with checkboxes that can be disabled when it shouldn’t appear in the Sitemap. At least then one wouldn’t have to look up the Post ID and the list with checkboxes would look similar to the other SItemap settings pages.

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  • Have some customers with limited editor role accounts. It is impossible for them to edit the settings (not allowed for role) and it would be also impossible to instruct them how to find/configure IDs.

    Additionally it is unclear if this new mechanism (harcoded post-IDs) works with multilingual plugins like WPML which most of my customers use.

    @authors: Removing an existing feature of a plugin is never a good idea. If performance is an issue, add a swich which disables that feature for poor powered servers. Same for sitemap priority setting.

    Thread Starter Endymion00

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    If only Yoast has something to say about this? Guess they’re too busy thinking up new ways to break sites in future updates.

    Hi

    +1, the loss of this feature doesn’t make any sense at all!

    Unfortunately also no confirmation for WPML compatibility of that hardcoded post-IDs “hack” yet.

    Was recommending Yoast SEO to customers, not any more now.

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