WordPress Sitemap and Hidden Pages

  • Resolved franklyfrank

    (@franklyfrank)


    6 days, 10 hours ago

    Hi everyone

    I’m using Yoast for SEO and I was adding Sitemap_index.xml to google search console. After I did that I notices that it contained 3 sitemaps. The first one, page-sitemaps.xml is correctly representing my pages in the website. While the other 2 seem to be sitemaps that were made with the original theme. I noticed the those sitemaps are linking to pages that don’t show on my Pages tab in wordpress. I had deleted every page that is not in use to keep the site clean. I can find a way to edit the sitemap, since there’s lots of info online. But, I can’t figure out were those other pages are saved, why they don’t show on Pages tab? I’m worried this might hurt my SEO. Is deleting those two other sitemaps enough for google not to crawl those pages. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

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  • The other two sitemaps belong to the Project Post Type. This is probably created by the plugin you use, “projects-by-woothemes”. You should find the data records for this in the backend under Projects – theoretically. If you have any questions, contact their support: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/projects-by-woothemes/ – btw. I noticed that this plugin has been closed since 2020. It might make sense to delete it completely from your website.

    Thread Starter franklyfrank

    (@franklyfrank)

    Thanks a lot for your help @threadi . One sitemap had pages under projects/all projects, the other projects/categories. I went ahead and deleted them first, then deleted the plugin. Worked like a charm, both sitemaps are deleted.

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