Attachments of draft posts in sitemap

  • Resolved wpchrisr

    (@wpchrisr)


    5 years ago

    Hi,

    as the title says, I noticed that attachments (images) of / in draft posts are listed in the sitemap. This will lead in an 404 error, if you not logged in.

    Thanks
    Chris

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  • Fanaticweb

    (@fanaticweb)

    Noticed the same thing through Google analytics, those posts were submitted in pending review yet the attachments somehow flagged as 404 in google

    Plugin Support Steve M

    (@wpsmort)

    Thank you for reporting this. We have an issue open to fix it in a future release.

    Most users should exclude Media Attachments from their XML Sitemap and set them to NOINDEX because they are thin pages with no value.

    See our article about Media Attachments here – https://semperplugins.com/documentation/what-are-media-attachments-and-should-i-submit-them-to-search-engines/

    Fanaticweb

    (@fanaticweb)

    Thank you for the update, in my case it’s a modeling portfolio website and the images do get indexed in search engines once published and the sitemap is updated, meanwhile, those draft/pending activation posts with attachments are flagged as soft 404’s.

    I’m keeping the Attachments settings as is while looking forward to the update ??

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