NO BUG: Bricks & RankMath Sitemap

Bugs
1

Hello.

So, I have 3 websites on Digital Ocean Droplet. All of them use the RankMath SEO plugin. Two are built with Bricks and the third one with a free theme.

Two websites that are built with Bricks (one uses WooCommerce) has a sitemap issue. When I add it to Search Console, it can’t read it. The third website doesn’t have that problem.

I don’t know if it’s a Bricks bug but because third website has no issue, I thought perhaps bricks has a bug.

When I check sitemaps, it works perfectly but Search Console can’t fetch it. Also, Google Bot doesn’t crawl those website as much as the third one.

2

Hi Lasha,
Thanks so much for your report!

Could you have activated this toggle in the WordPress reading settings?
If so, it will probably block the request.

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Alternatively, please have a look here:

Unfortunately, there is no way to speed up the fetching of sitemaps, so you should wait a certain amount of time.

Best regards,
timmse

3

Yes, the website is indexed and I tried everything that RankMath recommends.

Now I added each sitemap (post, pages, products) separately instead of sitemap.xml to Search Console and it works. will wait for several days and see what happens.

4

So, i had this issue on https://fiber.ge and it was caching issue as RankMath support told me. They gave me a script and now it works.

5

Thanks for the feedback! Maybe you can share the script if it is helpful for others.

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6

Oh. I forgot. This is the php script you need to insert in functions.php

/** 
 * Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
 *
 * @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

However, it might not always be needed. I think my server needs configuration, so I need that script. I have never had this issue with other hosting.

7

If anyone else has an issue with RankMath sitemaps being correctly configured, and discoverable by GSC, but then they disappear apparently for no reason.

Try resaving your permalinks.