amboutwe on "[Plugin: Yoast SEO] Adding an external sitemep to the sitemap index"

Hey,

Thanks for the awesome plugin.

We have another CMS running on the site along with the blog and would like to include an XML sitemap generated by that CMS in the sitemap_index Yoast creates. Is this possible?

I did see the answer here (https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-include-subsites-in-main-blogs-sitemap-on-multisite-network#post-3618871), which is pretty similar to what I'm looking for. But would to get your official reply on this.

Thanks

https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/

This might not be your preferred solution, but we ran into this with static site where we have main site, ecom site, news site, and blog -- 3 diff WP installs. What we did was setup the robots.txt to point at all four sitemaps, 3 by yoast, one by another plugin for our custom CMS.

Submitted all four sitemaps to Google, Bing, Yandex. Works.

Got it. I'm aware of the Robots.txt option, but also making sure that if there is a possibility to include it in the index, then try that out.

Reason - We've submitted the other sitemaps via Search Console, but the number of pages indexed v/s submitted is showing a difference. So, the assumption is that this might be happening because the sitemap is not included in the index (therefore, less weightage).

Will add the sitemap to Robots.txt but would love to see an option where the Sitemap Index can be edited.

Thanks

Have you tried the information found here?

If it did not work, please elaborate on what didn't work.