For anyone interested, switching to WMPU Dev’s Smartcrawl has allowed us to automatically add all members to the sitemap. It also allows you to exclude specific roles in case you have Admins you’d like to exclude from the sitemap. While Yoast has been our goto plugin, Smartcrawl appears to hold it’s own – especially when it comes to Buddypress. Here’s a link for more info.
However, if anyone knows how @mugwumpman was able to create the members-sitemap.xml and work with Yoast, would still be great to know – thx!
And, for anyone interested, here are other Buddypress specific functions it has – very impressed btw:
1. control the Buddypress member profile page meta title such as %%bp_user_full_name%% | %%sitename%% or whatever you prefer
2. also allows you to edit the Buddypress member profile meta description as well
3. include Groups in sitemaps
4. includes Profiles in sitemaps (as noted in previous post)
(Just wanted to share this in case you wanted to know in advance as this plugin is only available to paid WPMU Dev subscribers. This is in addition to all the other standard seo related features but listing Buddypress specific features above in case you wanted to know)
