remove old attachment sitemap

Thanks for reaching out about your attachment sitemap, @gnome11. Could you please share a clear screenshot of what you have in WordPress > Yoast SEO > Settings > Advanced > Media Pages?

You can use any image-sharing service like https://pasteboard.co/, https://snag.gy/, https://imgur.com/, https://snipboard.io/, or even upload the screenshot to your own website. Once you upload it to an image-sharing service, please share the link to the image here.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Here is a screenshot of the settings:

https://pasteboard.co/msG8nmkOeMf5.png

Thanks for the helpful screenshot. Please navigate to WordPress > Tools > Site Health > Info, then?Copy site info to clipboard?and share it with us.

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Twenty Twenty-Four: version: 1.0, author: the WordPress team, Auto-updates disabled wp-mu-plugins (2)

Health Check Troubleshooting Mode: author: (undefined), version: 1.7.2
SSO: version: 0.4, author: Garth Mortensen, Mike Hansen wp-plugins-active (23)

Advanced Custom Fields PRO: version: 6.1.8, author: WP Engine (latest version: 6.2.5), Auto-updates disabled
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MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress: version: 4.9.6, author: ibericode (latest version: 4.9.11), Auto-updates disabled
Meks Easy Photo Feed Widget: version: 1.2.7, author: Meks (latest version: 1.2.8), Auto-updates disabled
Multiple Post Thumbnails: version: 1.7, author: Chris Scott, Auto-updates disabled
Photography Theme Custom Post Type: version: 5.1, author: ThemeGoods, Auto-updates disabled
Redirection: version: 5.4.1, author: John Godley, Auto-updates disabled
Site Kit by Google: version: 1.106.0, author: Google (latest version: 1.116.0), Auto-updates disabled
Slider Revolution: version: 6.6.14, author: ThemePunch (latest version: 6.6.20), Auto-updates disabled
Smash Balloon Instagram Feed: version: 6.1.6, author: Smash Balloon (latest version: 6.2.7), Auto-updates disabled
SSL Insecure Content Fixer: version: 2.7.2, author: WebAware, Auto-updates disabled
UpdraftPlus - Backup/Restore: version: 1.23.7, author: UpdraftPlus.Com, DavidAnderson (latest version: 1.23.16), Auto-updates disabled
W3 Total Cache: version: 2.4.0, author: BoldGrid (latest version: 2.6.1), Auto-updates disabled
Yoast SEO: version: 21.8, author: Team Yoast, Auto-updates disabled
Yoast SEO: Search index purge: version: 1.1.0, author: Team Yoast, Auto-updates disabled wp-plugins-inactive (1)

Jetpack Boost: version: 2.0.0, author: Automattic - Jetpack Site Speed team (latest version: 2.2.1), Auto-updates disabled wp-media

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max_connections: 150 wp-constants

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WP_SITEURL: https://www.meganmccullor.com
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WP_PLUGIN_DIR: /home1/megmcfar/public_html/wp-content/plugins
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WP_ENVIRONMENT_TYPE: Undefined
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wordpress: writable
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uploads: writable
plugins: writable
themes: writable
mu-plugins: writable jetpack

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Thanks for sharing! I see you have the Yoast SEO: Search index purge plugin active. It was released because we had a temporary bug in an old version, where the Media & attachment URLs were incorrectly set to No by default. The purpose of that plugin is to purge attachment URLs out of Google’s index as fast as possible. This helps sites that might have suffered from having too many thin content pages in the search index by removing them in the fastest way possible.

Since that issue was resolved a long time ago, you shouldn’t have the plugin active. Besides, we don’t develop it anymore, and it has been removed from the plugin repository.

Can you deactivate and delete the plugin, please? Then turn OFF & ON the XML sitemap feature and let me know if the attachment sitemaps remain.

that worked! thank you.