On Google webmaster tools I am seeing errors but when I actually open the sitemap I can see the sitemaps that are showing the error below.
http://pain-and-depression.com/Library/sitemap-pt-post-2014-05.xml
Screenshot of errors: http://pain-and-depression.com/sitemap-errors.jpg
Errors
Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.
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And I guess I am not real clear about excluding categories as it still shows the posts in the excluded categories. Do I have to copy each post id from those categories and keep adding them to the list?
Thank you for your help,
Summer
https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
Arne Brachhold
Member
Plugin Author
Posted 1 year ago #
Hi,
do you have the plugin installed? I can't find your sitemap.xml
Hi arnee,
It's on now.
Summer
wbxpress
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Me too facing the same issue recently. Google WMT says error. Invalid XML file.
michellecoates
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
I'm having the same issue with 6 websites, I'm managing that were just recently launched. The are some samples of what is on the sitemap.xml pages which then drill down to the actual sitemap. I have deleted the plugin and re-installed it and am still having the same issue!
HELP!!!! There is obviously a bug in the plugin, as I have seen multiple posts in this forum on this.
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-misc.xml 2014-07-24 13:45
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-post-2014-04.xml 2014-04-30 20:46
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-post-2013-11.xml 2014-05-16 15:50
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-post-2013-04.xml 2014-06-25 21:29
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-page-2014-05.xml 2014-07-17 18:14
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-page-2014-04.xml 2014-07-03 14:06
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap-pt-page-2013-11.xml 2014-07-24 13:45
banthafoodoo
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
I am also having the same issue.
What I don't understand is why it changed. This was a great plugin a few versions ago. I am using am older version currently, with no problems.
The older versions just find posts/pages, and spit out an accurate file in the form of sitemap.xml. There are no sitemap-misc.xml or sitemap-pt-page-2014-11.xml files.
Is there anyway to use this plugin like the older versions, without all of the extraneous files? Just a simple sitemap.xml, that updates when post/pages are added or removed.
Thank You.
Update: Mine is working fine now. My link above shows the correct sitemap. My newest ones just appeared working and then I cleaned up my sitemaps on webmaster tools--testing and resubmitted the ones with errors.
Hello, michellecoates-- When I manually typed in your sitemap address, I am get a working site map as shown below, it lists almost 30 pages that go to the corresponding page of the site. I noticed on mine that contain 'sitemap-pt-post-2014-05.xml', are all the posts I published for that month, my archives. I am not seeing that date info at all in your sitemap like you have listed above.
http://fourpointsorlandohotel.com/sitemap.xml
banthafoodoo
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
michellecoates
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
The sitemap is now working because I uninstalled the most current version and installed version 3.4.1 and that seemed to fix the issue. You can find the previous versions of the plugin here: http://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/developers/
good luck!
Hi banthafoodoo,
I reinstalled it and then tested and resubmitted the sitemaps on webmaster tools, other than that I did nothing else.
banthafoodoo
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Thank you michellecoates and summer313.
I will just continue using version 3.2.6.
