Where does ayout_type-sitemap.xml come from?

@jbesa –

I’m having the same exact problem ??
I’m currently looking into a quick fix, but would appreciate it if someone else had a proper solution to this…

Yoast SEO v.2.3.5

twykr.

Same problem here. It gives me error on Google Search Console.

Hey all –

I’ve finally figured out the source of that content, albeit not how to fix it. I’m guessing you all are also using a theme from Elegant Themes, that use the “Divi” page builder? Could you confirm this?

It appears that the “layout_type.sitemap.xml” is coming out of the “Divi Library”, where the custom (dynamic) page template layouts are stored, and it doesn’t appear that both however EG / Divi setup that system is complete (missing a date), and Yoast SEO doesn’t take that type of setup (however Divi is doing it) into consideration – so it’s not something that you can disable.

I’m still seeing if I can track down something to block that output – but in the meantime, a work-around option is to try out / use the “Google XML Sitemaps” plugin, which doesn’t seem to suffer from the same oddness.

FWIW,
twykr

Thank you twykr, you are right! I’m actually using Divi!

Thanks for the workaround. I will wait an official fix either from Elegant Themes or Yoast.

Hello twykr,
thank you.
I am using Divi as well.
I have changed to a different sitemap plugin.
Hope we ll get a fix soon.
Cheers

Same error here, if anybody comes up with a fix please share.
thanks

Some taxonomies are not added publically and thus do not appear for exclusion. When this occurs, the taxonomy can either be made public or you can manually exclude a non-public taxonomy using the filter ‘wpseo_sitemap_exclude_taxonomy’. An example of how to use the filter can be found here.

Since Angelia has provided the correct answer for exclusion above, I’m going to close this thread.

~ Kim ~
Support at Yoast