I have this same problem.
When I click on the button Sitemap in the option page, it opens up the homepage instead of a sitemap. Also I can’t find it on the server.
Could you guys please include links to your sites so testers can take a look.
@dgeene
Sounds like an XML encoding issue as the sitemap is being found. Most common reason is extra blank lines being added at the top of the sitemap.
@jack
It’s a different issue. You won’t find the sitemap as a file on the server – the plugin creates a virtual file, not a physical one.
Something is re-directing the lookup request to your homepage – Maybe you have a 404 plugin to redirect broken links this way?
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dgeene
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@mikeotgaar I have no 404 plugin active.
This is the site: http://www.halal-slaughter-watch.org/
I’m using Genesis and WPML.
Same problem for me, http://www.rodcraft.com/sitemap_index.xml shows the homepage…
My plugins list :
- Always Edit in HTML
- BackUpWordPress
- FancyBox for WordPress
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Installer
- Meta Slider
- Remove Widget Titles
- ShareThis
- Widget Logic
- WordPress SEO
- WPML Media
- WPML Multilingual CMS
- WPML String Translation
- WP Smush.it
Please help ! 🙂
Ok, I’m also listing my active plugins, just to be sure 😉
Anti-Captcha
Background Manager
BackWPup
Category Checklist Tree
Cool Video Gallery
Custom Recent Posts Widget
FancyBox for WordPress
Genesis Featured Grid
Genesis Featured Images
Genesis Featured Widget Amplified
Genesis Grid
Genesis Simple Breadcrumbs
Genesis Simple Edits
Hotfix
Image Widget
Page-list
Regenerate Thumbnails
SEO Data Transporter
Shortcodes Ultimate
Simple Page Ordering
Simple Social Icons
Spots
Video Sidebar Widgets
Widget CSS Classes
Widget Logic
WordPress SEO
WPML CMS Nav
WPML Media
WPML Multilingual CMS
WPML String Translation
WPML Translation Analytics
WPML Translation Management
WP No Category Base – WPML compatible
WP Robots Txt
WP Show IDs
@dgeene
At the moment there’s a site map generated by the “Google Sitemap Generator Plugin” /sitemap.xml
The /sitemap_index.xml link returns a 404 error
This is a physical file – Yoast’s plugin has problems if it exists – The Google Sitemap Plugin doesn’t delete the file when uninstalling/deactivating
@picks44 @jack
Looks like you’re both using the WordPress Multilingual Plugin (WPML)
/wp-content/plugins/sitepress-multilingual-cms/
There’s a known bug mentioned here http://wpml.org/forums/topic/yoast-wordpress-seo-sitemap-xsl-error/
Also maybe worth checking some of the other topics http://wpml.org/forums/topic-tag/yoast/
With v1.4.19 onwards, Yoast made a lot of code changes inline with latest WordPress best practices.
Sorry I can’t test the fix from the forum – commercial plugin
Now I’m getting redirected to my homepage, each time I hit the sitemap button. Damn, this plugin always gives me headaches 🙁 so that it makes me wonder why it ever became so popular.
For me neither…
I also tried adding the code on this page http://yoast.com/wordpress/seo/faq/ to my htaccess file, before the WP rewrite rules, as Yoast pointed out. That only gives me a 500 internal server error and making my site unreachable.
Sorry you guys are still battling with this…
The .htaccess code mod definitely won’t work for this problem.
I’m looking at another option (nice you guys are willing to experiment) – will post shortly
By the way – anyone tried reverting to an older version of WP SEO – http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wordpress-seo.1.4.18.zip”>v 1.4.18?
It’s nice of you to help us 🙂
How do I revert the plugin ? Erase the current folder et replace with this one will do the trick ?
Just replaced all the files with the older version and guess what? It works! I get a sitemap with seperate files for each language.
Thanks Mike!!! 🙂
Nevertheless and perhaps I should be really gratefull … 😉 I do regret that I have to use this plugin instead of the simple Google XML Sitemap plugin I always use together with the equally simple SEO of the Genesis Framework.
But for now I’m happy. Hope it works for you too Picks44!
If you’re willing, try this (also untested) mod to WP SEO, to replace the deprecated code removed in v 1.4.19.
Insert the following the following after line 62 in wp-seo.php
$pluginurl = plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ );
if ( strpos( $pluginurl, 'https' ) === 0 && strpos( get_bloginfo( 'url' ), 'https' ) !== 0 )
$pluginurl = substr_replace( $pluginurl, 'http', 0, 5 );
define( 'WPSEO_FRONT_URL', $pluginurl );
unset( $pluginurl );
I’ve published a more comprehensive discussion with fuller guidelines here
http://tech.graphicline.co.za/wordpress-seo-sitemap-shows-home-page/#fix2
