Are there very many posts in 2015? It might be a case of running into the server/hosting PHP memory limit. Try setting the option “Split by: Month” on Settings > Reading under the XML Sitemap settings.
Other thing I notice is that you are using WP Super Cache in Legacy mode but Late Init is not set. Is there any specific reason for using legacy mode? Is there any possibility to switch to the recommended PHP caching mode?
Thank you Ravan H for the response. I got it changed to month and even started PHP caching mode. However, now when I click on 2015 or any other year. It just opens the website than any sitemap.
So “Split by Month” works?
… However, now when I click on 2015 or any other year. It just opens the website than any sitemap.
That’s strange. I have the sitemap plugin running on several sites with WP Super Cache in PHP mode and it works just fine. So the main sitemap.xml works while the others don’t? Have you tried clearing the cache?
It is now working. Cache wasn’t cleared. Thank you.
I got a new error from Google Webmasters:
Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead
There’s something else going on. Your sitemap index, the home, taxonomy and pages sitemaps work fine but strangely the post sitemaps get redirected to your homepage. This explains the HTML error for GWT.
Did you replace WP Super Cache with something else? I notice a server response “X-Cache:HIT from Backend” but also “Server:cloudflare-nginx” … are you using Cloudflare? Could any Cloudflare settings explain the redirects?
Or it might be your permalink structure. Could you tell me your exact permalink settings? I’ll try to reproduce this…
The WP Super Cache is still active. And Cloudflare has always been on.
I think when I activate Yoast SEO, this error starts.
First make sure that in Yoast SEO the XML Sitemap option is switched off. Then please tell me your Permalink settings because there is something weird going on. I would expect http://motoroctane.com/2016/ to show the 2016 archive but it gets redirected to the home page just as these yearly and monthly sitemaps.
Is there a plugin like Redirection running that does redirection based on regexp rules? Or a plugin that disables date archives?
Other questions: are you on an Apache or Nginx server? Are there any server rules (either in .htaccess or in your nginx conf files) that could explain the redirection of URLs with dates/numbers in them?
Hey RavanH
Yoast Sitemap has been disable from the start. I had a ReDirection app that was disable and deleted a few months ago.
I’m running Apache. I don’t have any re-direct plugin, but this comes in function when I use Yoast for some reason.
OK, I’ll try to reproduce the issue. What are your Permalink settings?
Hi RavanH
My permalink setting is: /%category%/%post_id%-%postname%
Also, I have now deactivated CloudFlare. So I reckon that issue might not be the cause.
I tried with the permalink setting /%category%/%post_id%-%postname% and WordPress SEO enabled with default options on a test site but that does not create this issue.
Is there any particular SEO setting that might have to do with this? If you can create an export of the SEO settings (under SEO > Tools) you can send it to me via http://status301.net/contact-en/
I had a ReDirection app that was disable and deleted a few months ago.
What is that? Did that modify your .htaccess file?
Hi RavanH
I have deleted Yoast SEO and all is working fine. I have deactivated post tags, still it is showing up in Sitemap and when you click it. It shows up 404
Hi, that was probably a (super)cached version. I’m not seeing the tags sitemap in your index any more.
BTW, I did not have time yet to further test your Yoast SEO settings but I did receive your e-mail and will do some further testing. If I find out more, I’ll let you know.
New issue: I have 4k+ tags, so it shows tags as empty when anyone clicks it.
