Title: Sitemap does not work
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sitemap does not work

 *  [mageguild](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mageguild/)
 * (@mageguild)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-does-not-work/)
 * I am using this plugin for the first time for a new site that I am building. 
   I enabled the sitemap feature but the sitemap does not seem to work in this plugin.
   When I access the URL, I 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.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-does-not-work/)
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