Posted 1 year ago #
I created my sitemap the way I normally do for other WordPres sites, but for some reason this sitemap has added a # symbol as a link listed in my sitemap. This # link is causing Google Webmaster Tools to reject the sitemap. I have a few pages on my site that redirect to # links, but all of those pages have been added to the exclude list in the plugin.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
Posted 11 months ago #
I'm also suffering from this issue on a site.
The only thing I can think that's different between this and other sites is the fact that this site is using Suffusion as a theme, and also has some top-level pages which are not linked to in the site.
Posted 10 months ago #
I have this same issue as well. With the # in the loc XML element, Google Webmaster Tools will not accept the site map. Has there been any resolution to this issue?
Hi,
what do you mean exactly with "top-level pages which are not linked to in the site"?
Does this problem still exists in the latest beta?
Posted 10 months ago #
Yes, this problem exists in the latest beta. Thanks.
Posted 10 months ago #
Just discovered that the problem goes away when I deactivate the "Page Links To" plugin. Not sure if csogilvie is using this plugin but there is a definite conflict.
Posted 10 months ago #
I also have this problem.
The Weaver theme gives an option to "switch off" a page to appear in the menu, and to become a dead-page (dead main menu option) where only underlying pages are active in the dropdown menu.
This is from the theme support forum:
For a page checked as: Menu "Placeholder" page in the Theme (great feature that I need), the sitemap has an entry with only: #
And that is regarded invalid sitemap-syntax.Is there anything I can do in the Theme or page or would this be a sitemap-generator bug ?
It is fairly standard to use a link with simply '#' to mean "here". I would think the sitemap-generator should know about that common idiom. There's a simple JavaScript equivalent that some HTML writers use instead (don't remember right off the top of my head) that should be handled as well.
To temporarily solve this I switch the theme-option off again but for sure I would like to use that feature.
Thanks, Piet
Posted 10 months ago #
Experiencing the same issue, for example here: http://donateaday.net/sitemap-pt-page-2011-01.xml
Using the Suffusion theme.
Should be fixed in 4.0b7 :)
Posted 9 months ago #
It is indeed! :-)
(PS: Don't forget to update http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/ . It still says 4.0b6 Beta is most recent beta)
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