WooCommerce Products with the visibility status hidden (excluded from catalog) are still indexed by the Yoast SEO tool. TO remove them from the automatically generated Sitemaps and set the index status to “noindex, nofollow” add the following 2 functions to your functions.php<\/p>\n
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