Title: BUG: Sitemap broken
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# BUG: Sitemap broken

 *  [katandmouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katandmouse/)
 * (@katandmouse)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-sitemap-broken/)
 * THis worked when we installed it a week ago but now we get this error:
 * This page contains the following errors:
 * error on line 2 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the
   document
    Below is a rendering of the page up to the first error.
 * and it was blank
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/)

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 * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps_fffefe.svg)
 * [Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps (support Sitemap Index, Multi-site and Google News)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/)
 * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/#faq)
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/)
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 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/unresolved/)
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 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [katandmouse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/katandmouse/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/bug-sitemap-broken/)
 * Status: not resolved