Author Sitemap enabled, Not showing

Hi @brianol

Could you please tell us where do you find the option “show users with no posts”? I tried enabling the Yoast SEO plugin and it shows the authors sitemap: https://drive.google.com/file/d/12cyIfaG156-89XaHHv1jb7KEC-rGpUzN/view?usp=sharing

Is your site accessible to everyone? Please go to WP Admin > Ultimate Member > Settings > Access.

Regards,

Thanks @champsupertramp
see attached screenies:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1j27w8chdFU_oU-obGuaIRSbCF0fqmFyF/view?usp=sharing
Yoast archive settings with “Show archives for authors without posts in search results?” toggled to ON

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I2YYbcqru__ZvPCIM93MuLccUhP5umxe/view?usp=sharing
UM settings showing the site is visible to everyone.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxfZ2kwcHb0OG3dE4tPps5DyroXi2gVd/view?usp=sharing
ADMIN user settings removing them from the sitemap

So in theory, My user sitemap should have just ultimate member users.

If I uncheck the “Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.” from the admin accounts, they indeed will show up, but I don’t want that. What I want is the directory users to appear.

Thank you

Hi @brianol

Your screenshots are not publicly accessible. Please check.

Regards,

They should be public now

Hi @brianol

Where is this option located?
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zxfZ2kwcHb0OG3dE4tPps5DyroXi2gVd/view

If I uncheck the “Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.” from the admin accounts, they indeed will show up, but I don’t want that. What I want is the directory users to appear.

Did you mean you want to show the Member Directory page instead of the author archive in the sitemap?

Regards,

Hi Thanks,
“Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.” is located in the User Editor.

I am checking this on the ADMIN users to exclude them from any lists or sitemaps.

What I think is the real issue at heart is that the Ultimate Member user roles aren’t showing up in the sitemap.xml author archives.

THe member directory shows in the sitemap, but the list of users does not show (in the author sitemap).

What I really want to do is make sure the actual listings in the directory are getting properly indexed. Having them show in the author sitemap is logical, as they are in the user database.

Aside from this, I am unhappy that the general site search does not seem to pick up Ultimate member info.

But for now, What I am trying to ensure is best-case SEO indexing.

Hi @brianol

If you want to show the user profiles URLs in the author sitemap, you can try this basic extension: https://github.com/ultimatemember/Extended/tree/main/um-yoast-seo

The installation guide is in this link: https://github.com/ultimatemember/Extended#installation

Regards,

Hi @champsupertramp
OK, this is all working now. Thank you.

It wasn’t, even after installing the plugin, but once I un-ticked the “Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.” in the main wordpress user editor for one single user, it all popped into place.

Sadly, though, I don’t want those users indexed (the admin users) but now they are showing by default. haha. You can’t win.

With this plugin, it would be great if it respected the “Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.” but still produced the sitemap.

But I am most grateful. I believe my problem is solved at the moment!

Hi @brianol

I’ve updated the Yoast extension:
https://github.com/ultimatemember/Extended

It hides the user from the author’s archive when this option is enabled Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results.

I also added a filter hook so you can modify the users to display in the author’s archive. You can try the following code snippet to show only users with subscribers role in the sitemap.

add_filter("um_yoast_seo_get_users","um_112421_yoast_user_roles");
function um_112421_yoast_user_roles( $args ){
   $args['role__in'] = array( "Subscriber" );
   return $args;
}

Regards,

That works excellently.

The hook doesn’t quite work, but the edit to the plugin does.

It’s weird. In my case, I have 3 site users, 2 admins, and 1 editor and then a series of “Sport Organizations” in ultimate member as a custom role.

If I tick “Do not allow search engines to show this author’s archives in search results” in the 1 editor, on both admin users, the author sitemap breaks and throws a 404. I need to leave one exposed, the editor in my case.

I believe something here is at play with the fact that the UM users have 0 posts attributed to them (by wordpress User panel)

But at least now, my admin users are not public!

Thank you!

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by brianol.

Thanks for letting us know.

Regards,

Hi @brianol

Have you tried changing the role name Subscriber to slug subscriber?

add_filter("um_yoast_seo_get_users","um_112421_yoast_user_roles");
function um_112421_yoast_user_roles( $args ){
   $args['role__in'] = array( "subscriber" );
   return $args;
}

Regards,

Hi @champsupertramp
In my case, the UM role is “Sport Organization” and the slug is “um_sport-organization”

Using wither of those, the filter does nothing.

And in the end, I am going to have two… “Facility” / “um_facility”

• This reply was modified 3 years ago by brianol.

Hi @brianol

It works on my end. Please see my test in the video clip:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15C0z_u8O6PedmIf-gwa894Hf12eVpEYM/view?usp=sharing

Regards,

hmmm I may try again then, though I do have it working. The filter 100% works in theory.