/**
 * 🔒 Remove /product/ and /products/ URLs from Yoast sitemap (FINAL)
 * Covers product pages + product category pages
 */
 
/* Level 1: Stop inclusion at URL check stage */
add_filter('wpseo_sitemap_exclude_url', function ($exclude, $url) {
 
    if (
        strpos($url, '/product/') !== false ||
        strpos($url, '/products/') !== false
    ) {
        return true;
    }
 
    return $exclude;
 
}, 10, 2);
 
 
/* Level 2: Force remove from final sitemap output */
add_filter('wpseo_sitemap_entries', function ($entries) {
 
    if (empty($entries)) {
        return $entries;
    }
 
    foreach ($entries as $key => $entry) {
 
        if (isset($entry['loc'])) {
 
            if (
                strpos($entry['loc'], '/product/') !== false ||
                strpos($entry['loc'], '/products/') !== false
            ) {
                unset($entries[$key]);
            }
 
        }
    }
 
    return $entries;
});<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="//blog.mpksteels.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/main-sitemap.xsl"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
	<sitemap>
		<loc>https://blog.mpksteels.com/post-sitemap.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-11-07T11:19:19+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
	<sitemap>
		<loc>https://blog.mpksteels.com/page-sitemap.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-09-16T11:48:39+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
	<sitemap>
		<loc>https://blog.mpksteels.com/category-sitemap.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-11-07T11:19:19+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
	<sitemap>
		<loc>https://blog.mpksteels.com/author-sitemap.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2025-10-07T13:35:31+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>
<!-- XML Sitemap generated by Yoast SEO -->