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1. Hector
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi. I am using the latest version of WP SEO which creates a sitemap index XML which links to child XMLs. Google, for example, loads the index then follows to the child XMLs and from those, spiders each page (and not from the parent XML).

   Does the PRELOAD feature in W3T Cache follow the parent XML? Meaning, will it work with such a structure of XMLs or does it need a flat sitemap?

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

2. johanzen
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Would like this answered too...

3. Hector
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Hi johanzen. I think I found the answer and unfortunately it is no, it does not work.

   Here's what I did, if you can replicate and share your findings, would be good.

   a) I setup my cache priming to 15 mins (900 secs) and 20 pages per batch. Set the XML path to the WP SEO sitemap_index.xml

   b) I installed StatPress Visitors (http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/statpress-visitors/)

   c) When I go to Visitor Spy I see every 15 mins my server's IP address requesting (i.e. auto caching) ONLY the XML file!!

   d) I then changed the XML path in Total Cache to a sub-xml, for example my post tags xml. Now I see my server's IP requesting 20 URLs every 15 mins.. of course only within the xml so only tag pages.

   e) To make sure, I reverted to the sitemap_index and sure enough only the xml being requested again every 15 mins.

   I think I'll install Google Sitemap just to generate the XML for the cache priming feature.

4. Frederick Townes
   Member
   Posted 10 months ago #

   This now works with the latest version of the plugin.

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