Sitemap not being generated

Resolved sblake.fu
(@sblakefu)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi,

I’ve just downloaded this plugin and installed and activated it with no problems. It’s added itself to the left menu and I can access all the settings pages.

However, it won’t seem to generate the sitemap whatever I do – http://www.mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml just gives a 404.

I’ve done some debugging of the class-bwp-simple-gxs.php file and it seems to be getting to the request_sitemap function but stops there as neither of the two if conditions are true.

Any help much appreciated!

Thanks.

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/

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Plugin Author Khang Minh
(@oddoneout)

10 years, 10 months ago

Could you please try going to Settings > General > Permalinks and then press Save Changes? After that try generating the sitemapindex again.

Thread Starter sblake.fu
(@sblakefu)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi OddOneOut, thanks for the reply.

Have tried that but still no luck.

How do you actually force it to generate the sitemap anyway? Should it be enough to simply visit http://www.mysite.com/sitemapindex.xml or is there a button somewhere in the settings to do it?

Thanks.

Thread Starter sblake.fu
(@sblakefu)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi again,

We’ve narrowed the problem down to a conflict with another plugin that we use called Custom Permalinks. Disabling that plugin and the sitemaps are generated fine.

Just wondering if you have come across this before? Any idea how difficult it would be to fix?

Thanks.

Thread Starter sblake.fu
(@sblakefu)

10 years, 10 months ago

Ok, we’ve figured out the issue here.

It seems Custom Permalinks had got confused by an old sitemap page (although not entirely sure why as it was on a different url). We tracked it down through the Category_name that was inside the wpquery and once the page was deleted the sitemaps are generated fine.

Hope that helps if someone else comes across this issue.

Cheers.

Plugin Author Khang Minh
(@oddoneout)

10 years, 10 months ago

Hi there, glad you got it working!

I’d be appreciated if you could share what you have found on http://betterwp.net/community/ so that others can benefit from it.

Thank you,

vich11
(@vich11)

10 years, 9 months ago

sblake.fu,

I don’t understand your fix. I have Custom Permalinks and am having trouble getting this sitemap plugin to work. What exactly did you do? What file did you have to delete?

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