Summary

Finished the Rank Math sitemap authority handoff for aguiarinjurylawyers.com. The prior live behavior was mostly correct, but production did not have the local seo-sitemap-authority.php MU plugin deployed, so code provenance was still pending.

What shipped

• Deployed wp-content/mu-plugins/seo-sitemap-authority.php to production at /var/www/html/public_html/wp-content/mu-plugins/seo-sitemap-authority.php.
• Committed and pushed the file to sail-projects-root on branch agent/restoration-continue-2026-04-24.
• Commit: e55a4b2533fc114f2a349906f27b0a1c99fc5718.
• Purged Cloudways app cache through the Cloudways API. Response: status:true, operation flex-87111863.

Verification

• Production file syntax check: no PHP syntax errors.
• Production file checksum: d65d533aa880bf3de97f0cdf4d99d9ba1d0c7e396f4537007623b6bfb864f68d.
• Rank Math is active: rank_math_loaded=1.0.269-beta.
• Kadence sitemap option is now truthy: kadence_disable_sitemap=truthy.
• Core WordPress sitemaps are suppressed: wp_sitemaps_enabled=false.
• https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/sitemap_index.xml returns 200 and includes post, page, category, and video sitemap entries with the Rank Math generator marker.
• robots.txt has one sitemap directive: https://aguiarinjurylawyers.com/sitemap_index.xml.
• /wp-sitemap.xml and /sitemap.xml both return 301 to the canonical Rank Math sitemap index.
• Googlebot public check returns 200 for the sitemap. Bingbot still receives Cloudflare 403, which remains an edge/WAF bot-access issue rather than a Rank Math or WordPress sitemap generation issue.

Submission status

Google Search Console: attempted a sitemap submit with the available service account and received 403 because the account has siteRestrictedUser permission. A read check succeeded and shows the canonical sitemap was already submitted on 2026-05-09, is not pending, is a sitemap index, last downloaded on 2026-05-09, and has 0 warnings and 0 errors.

Bing Webmaster Tools: no Bing WMT/API credential was found in the local vault, credential index, manifest, or Notion search. Submission remains blocked by missing authenticated Bing Webmaster access. IndexNow exists, but that is not the same as Bing Webmaster Tools sitemap submission.