Why is the post type “Media (attachment)” by default disabled for the sitemap

  • Resolved John-Pierre Cornelissen

    (@jpnl)


    6 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,

    The “Media (attachment)” post type is by default disabled for the xml sitemap. Why is that? The video instructions says that’s on purpose but doesn’t explain why.

    In what situations would you want to enable it?

    Thanks
    JP

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  • Plugin Support Suwash

    (@suascat_wp)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    When you upload an image, WordPress automatically creates a post of the type “attachment” in the database and the corresponding URL for that. It calls this the “media” post type. This is usually not considered good to include on the sitemap and appear on the Search Result as just being an attachment URL. However, this setting won’t prevent Google from indexing the actual image URLs, therefore, it won’t hurt your SEO.

    Thread Starter John-Pierre Cornelissen

    (@jpnl)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    Thank you suascat.
    So in what situation would it be good to enable?

    Thanks
    JP

    Plugin Support Md Mazedul Islam Khan

    (@mazedulislamkhan)

    6 years, 9 months ago

    If you’re wanting to see the media (attachment) pages in the Google search results, you’d include the media (attachment) post types to the XML Sitemap.

    Plugin Support Jerlyn

    (@jerparx)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Closed due to inactivity.

    Thread Starter John-Pierre Cornelissen

    (@jpnl)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    Reopened due to no answer from Yoast support staff.

    Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    6 years, 8 months ago

    @jpnl We apologize for the confusion. @suascat_wp, @mazedulislamkhan and @jerparx are part of the Yoast support staff.

    Closing since the question has been answered above by Yoast support.

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