Title: Custom Sitemap
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Custom Sitemap

 *  Resolved [Sheerazraza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerazraza/)
 * (@sheerazraza)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/)
 * The sitemap on my website is encountering 404 error on custom sitemap?
 * How can I remove the custom url from sitemap?
 * General HTTP error: 404 not found
    Sitemap: [http://www.valuewalk.com/sitemap-custom.xml](http://www.valuewalk.com/sitemap-custom.xml)
   <– need to remove this from sitemap HTTP Error: 404
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Sheerazraza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerazraza/)
 * (@sheerazraza)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290196)
 * Okay the above is solved but now it is generating new error:
 * Errors
    Missing XML tag This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
   1 Sitemap: [http://www.valuewalk.com/sitemap-custom.xml](http://www.valuewalk.com/sitemap-custom.xml)
   Parent tag: urlset Tag: url
 *  [kapunas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapunas/)
 * (@kapunas)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290248)
 * Hello,
 * I am having this same issue with a 404 on sitemap-custom.xml. The custom sitemap
   was not included in the sitemap index before and I did not intentionally want
   to add it. How did you manage to solve this?
 * Thank you in advance.
 *  Thread Starter [Sheerazraza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerazraza/)
 * (@sheerazraza)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290249)
 * Mine was not created intentionally either – it created right after I upgraded
   the latest version of plugin (I assume) I think the developer will answer better
   that what could be the issue. After showing 404 for sometime it started showing
   me an empty xml path.
 *  [kapunas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapunas/)
 * (@kapunas)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290252)
 * OK I re-saved permalinks structure as well as cleared wordpress cache and sitemap-
   custom.xml is no longer throwing a 404 but am getting Missing XML tag error on
   Line 4 same as you when I test the custom sitemap in search console.
 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290259)
 * Hi all, it looks like you’ve found a bug. The sitemap-custom.xml should not appear
   when the field “Include custom URLs” is empty but it looks like in some cases
   it does…
 * I’ve been able to reproduce and I’ll work on a fix.
 * For now, to get around the GWT error, go to Settings > Reading, find the field“
   Include custom URLs” and fill out your full home page URL there.
 *  Thread Starter [Sheerazraza](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sheerazraza/)
 * (@sheerazraza)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290262)
 * Thanks man, really appreciate your help. Just did what you said, and the homepage
   is now appearing up in the custom sitemap url – guess will wait for the original
   fix.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [kapunas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kapunas/)
 * (@kapunas)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290269)
 * Thanks for the quick support. 🙂
 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-sitemap/#post-7290270)
 * OK, just released 4.6.3 which should fix the bug. After upgrade, you should be
   able to clear the “Include custom URLs” field again and no sitemap-custom.xml
   should appear any longer.
 * Thanks all for the bug report!

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 * Status: resolved