RSS feed server error question

Hi again!

Sorry for my belated reply.

TSF didn’t create those URLs, WordPress did, but Google shouldn’t have found those in the first place.

Occasionally, Google grabs whatever it deems a URL and follows that. In this case, they grabbed a search-templating URL from TSF’s Schema.org output. Google follows it, and then the theme asks WordPress to erroneously create and output non-existing feed URLs on the search page, which Google again follows.

Google’s behavior is what instigated my implementation of the Advanced Query Protection (AQP) feature, where Google followed plaintext example URIs from TSF’s shortlink service, such as https://theseoframework.com/?p=$. I recommend enabling the AQP feature if you haven’t already, although it doesn’t protect your site against 5xx error pages.

In any case, you can safely dismiss the notification, so I’m marking this topic as resolved.

Perhaps you can configure your webserver not to serve a 5xx error but let WordPress handle it graciously (it will send a 404 response). This will prevent Google from dispatching unwarranted emails about their crawler failing to understand their very own recommendations.