Remove author from sitemap

Hi, yes there is the filter xmlsf_skip_user available for this. You can use a code snippets plugin or your theme’s functions.php to add some PHP like this:

function my_skip_authors_sitemap( $skip, $user ) {
    $skip_users = array( 12, 15 );
    if ( ! is_object( $user ) || ! method_exists( $user->ID ) || in_array(  $user->ID, $skip_users ) ) {
        $skip = true;
    }
    return $skip;
}
add_filter( 'xmlsf_skip_user', 'my_skip_authors_sitemap', 10, 2 );

Add as many authors by their ID number (separated by a comma) as you wish to exclude to the $skip_users array.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 3 months ago by Rolf Allard van Hagen. Reason: improve filter

Documentation can be found on https://premium.status301.com/knowledge-base/xml-sitemap-google-news/filter-hooks/xmlsf_skip_user/

Thanks.

It gave me an error on the method check, but deleting the check works fine.

I turned

if ( ! is_object( $user ) || ! method_exists( $user->ID ) || in_array( $user->ID, $skip_users ) )
into

if ( ! is_object( $user ) || in_array( $user->ID, $skip_users ) )

Sorry, my mistake. And good spot: the part ! method_exists( $user->ID ) should actually have been ! property_exists( $user, 'ID' )

Good to hear you got it working ??

thanks