How do I get WordPress URL rewrites into Sitemap?

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Consider the two following custom post types:

  • Museums
  • Bakeries

With one shared taxonomy:

  • Region

I’m using rewrite rules to improve the URL structure, so I can serve pages to visitors such as:

  • https://myurl.com/museums/london (all museums in London)
  • https://myurl.com/bakeries/birmingham (all bakeries in Birmingham)
  • https://myurl.com/bakeries/london/aok_kitchen (a specific bakery in London)

Here are the rewrite rules:

function my_url_rewrite_rule() {
    add_rewrite_rule( '^museums/([^/]+)/?$',
            'index.php?taxonomy=region&post_type=museums&term=$matches[1]', 'top' );

    add_rewrite_rule( '^museums/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)?$',
            'index.php?post_type=museums&genre=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]', 'top' );

    add_rewrite_rule( '^bakeries/([^/]+)/?$',
            'index.php?taxonomy=region&post_type=bakeries&term=$matches[1]', 'top' );

    add_rewrite_rule( '^bakeries/([^/]+)/page/([0-9]+)?$',
            'index.php?post_type=bakeries&genre=$matches[1]&paged=$matches[2]', 'top' );
}
add_action( 'init', 'my_url_rewrite_rule', 10, 0 );

I have set up my templates and everything works fine, with one exception: I can’t get the following type of pages into my sitemap:

  • https://myurl.com/museums/london
  • https://myurl.com/bakeries/birmingham

.. And every other combination of url+post_type+taxonomy. I can access the URLs and have working templates, but I just can’t get the sitemap to understand the new structure. This is not surprising as I’m bypassing the default url structure of WordPress. But how can I proceed to get them into the sitemap?

I’m using SEOPress (Pro), but I’ve also tried with Yoast.

Thanks!

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