Title: Duplicate Sitemap
Last modified: August 27, 2020

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# Duplicate Sitemap

 *  Resolved [btjackso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btjackso/)
 * (@btjackso)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sitemap-2/)
 * Hi there,
 * We are having an issue with the plugin creating two sitemaps. One at: [https://SITENAME.com/sitemap.xml](https://SITENAME.com/sitemap.xml)
   and another at: [https://SITENAME.com/sitemap_index.xml](https://SITENAME.com/sitemap_index.xml).
 * Both sitemaps are the same but we need to remove the duplicate at /sitemap_index.
   xml. Is there a setting I am missing to remove this additional sitemap?
 * We are running the latest install of WordPress core and the XML plugin itself
   is up to date as well.
 * Otherwise the plugin works flawlessly and has helped our SEO efforts.

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 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sitemap-2/#post-13325472)
 * Hi, can you tell me why the duplicate is a problem? You should not fear getting
   a “duplicate content penalty” because the sitemap itself is marked “noindex”…
 * In any case, in the upcoming version, the plugin will not respond to sitemap_index.
   xml requests any more. Cannot say when it will arrive but it should not be very
   long. In the mean time, you could create a manual redirect from sitemap_index.
   xml to sitemap.xml in your .htaccess or use a (powerful) plugin like Redirection
   to set that up (and monitor it) from within the WordPress admin.
 *  Thread Starter [btjackso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btjackso/)
 * (@btjackso)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sitemap-2/#post-13325540)
 * Thank you for your quick reply.
 * Our SEO partner brought it up to our attention as an issue that needed to be 
   resolved, but I have relayed your response to them and in the meantime have setup
   that redirect until the upcoming version of the plugin has been released.

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 * Last reply from: [btjackso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/btjackso/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/duplicate-sitemap-2/#post-13325540)
 * Status: resolved