Hi, that’s strange… are you using DB object caching (plugin) maybe? Is the sitemap itself live?
If you can share a link and possibly let me take a look on the admin side (temporary account will do) that would be ver yhelpful. You can contact me directly via https://status301.net/contact-en/
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ustar
(@ustar)
Hi. RavanH.
I have sent you a message via your link.
Please, check.
Regards, Sergio.
Hi, yes I wrote an email back the same day, you apparently did not get it… I wrote that I noticed the option to block search engines on Settings > Reading is activated. This causes the XML Sitemap option to deactivate too…
You’ll have to disable the option above to be able to activate the sitemap options. Please note that the option to block search engines does not work anyway because you are using a static robots.txt file.
Thread Starter
ustar
(@ustar)
Yeah, now I see. I suspected it, but did not believe.
Ok, I will check the plugin after transfer to live.
Thank you very much for your help!
Best wishes!
Sergey.
Note that your site is already “live” as in: it does not block search engines because there is no “Disallow: /” rule in your robots.txt (it’s what that option does if you leave it up to WordPress to generate a dynamic robots.txt) … with a static robots.txt file the option does not do anything except disable the sitemap settings.
I understand this can be confusing so I’ll consider replacing this behavior with a simple admin warning message in an upcoming version.
Thank you for your feedback 🙂
Thread Starter
ustar
(@ustar)
Thank you, RavanH!
I’ll keep it in mind.
I use rules:
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
in my .htaccess to limit robots. Hope, this is works )
Regards, Sergey.
