Sitemaps: Disable Image Sitemaps

[seejacobscott]

In the sitemaps module there's currently no way to disable any specific instances of the sitemaps, specifically the image sitemap.

Checking the developer options I'm seeing filters for excluding specific images but not a way to disable the full image sitemap.

requested in 3216712-t

Is there a way to turn off the image sitemaps entirely? We don't use
attachment pages in WP, and the sitemap is loaded with attachment pages,
since we have thousands of unattached photos. Obviously we don't want that
stuff indexed. I poked around the code, but couldn't figure out an easy way
to do that.

[seejacobscott]

Also requested in 636092-zen

[zinigor]

Once we follow through with #7335 it should be easy enough to do. But for goodness sake please don't do anything before it's merged to avoid conflicts.

[jeherve]

For now, one can use the following filter to disable image sitemaps:

add_filter( 'jetpack_sitemap_image_skip_post', '__return_true' );

[chaselivingston]

Also requested in 932008-zen.

[cena]

Hi @zinigor ! Any word on whether this will be merged, since #7335 has been merged?

[hakamairi]

I need this, any plan to support this?

[jeherve]

@hakamairi That's not currently on our roadmap, but as you can see we've added the "Good For Community" label to this issue; if you were to contribute a patch for this feature, we'd be happy to review it and include it in Jetpack!

[1lucas]

add_filter( 'jetpack_sitemap_image_skip_post', '__return_true' );

where do i add the filter?

thx

[jeherve]

@1lucas You can follow the instructions here to add custom code to your site:
https://jetpack.com/support/adding-code-snippets/

[rams85]

add_filter( 'jetpack_sitemap_image_skip_post', '__return_true' );

You can add this in functions.php of the active theme

[drwpcom]

Another request to disable image sitemaps in 17122534-hc
Provided the filter and user added it using Code Snippets plugin but we're still seeing image links in the image xml sitemap.

Update: The code snippets seems to be working now.

[rachelwinspear]

Requested here: 15687925-hc
Took a while for the code snippet to take effect, but it now works.

[hubertnguyen]

Also supporting having a checkbox for disabling this. We have ~140,000 images and the sitemap has caused Google Bot to crawl all the (default) attachement pages that we don't actually use. It drained resources and went on undetected for a while.

[jartes]

Requested here as well: 29339388-hc

[milosz]

This is still a case.

[bobmatyas]

Another case on the forums: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-does-jetpack-assume-we-want-an-image-sitemap-xml-file/?view=all