Title: Sitemaps not working
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Sitemaps not working

 *  [jason404](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason404/)
 * (@jason404)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/)
 * I noticed I am getting crawl errors in Google Webmaster tools, and found that
   the WordPress SEO sitemaps are not working properly:
 * [http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/sitemap_index.xml)
   
   [http://www.ianstuart-london.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://www.ianstuart-london.com/sitemap_index.xml)
   [http://accessories.ianstuart-bride.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://accessories.ianstuart-bride.com/sitemap_index.xml)
   [http://accessories.ianstuart-london.com/sitemap_index.xml](http://accessories.ianstuart-london.com/sitemap_index.xml)(
   not currently accessible)
 * This error message shows when viewed in Firefox:
 *     ```
       XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
       Location: http://www.ianstuart-bride.com/main-sitemap.xsl
       Line Number 1, Column 699:
       ```
   
 * W3 Total Cache, to see if that was the culprit, but it isn’t.
 * What’s going on?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [ip00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ip00/)
 * (@ip00)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594126)
 * Same issue here, on multiple sites. Not using W3 Total Cache.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594127)
 * **[@ip00](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ip00/)**: It is considered impolite
   to interrupt another poster’s ongoing thread unless you are posting a solution
   or suggestion. It causes significant problems for the forum’s volunteers and 
   prevents us from being able to track issues by topic. Please post your own topic.
 *  Thread Starter [jason404](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason404/)
 * (@jason404)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594135)
 * Well it’s useful for me to know that I am not the only person having this problem
   and that W3 Total Cache has certainly nothing to do with it.
 *  [elmo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elmo2000/)
 * (@elmo2000)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594205)
 * Yup , I have the same problem!
 * [http://www.verenigdestaten.info/sitemap_index.xml](http://www.verenigdestaten.info/sitemap_index.xml)
 *     ```
       XML-parsefout: geen element gevonden
       Locatie: http://www.verenigdestaten.info/sitemap_index.xml
       Regelnummer 1, kolom 1:
       ```
   
 * Any solutions for this?
 *  Thread Starter [jason404](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jason404/)
 * (@jason404)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594206)
 * If you click my sitemap links above you can see that they have started working
   again.
 * On the issues page on GitHub for this plugin, there are some posts suggesting
   it is a problem caused by New Relic.
 * There have been New Relic repository updates recently, so that may be why it 
   has started working again for me. I have not made any other changes, as far as
   I know/remember.
 *  [elmo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elmo2000/)
 * (@elmo2000)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594207)
 * Hmm, I don’t use New Relic..
 * So must be something else

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## Tags

 * [sitemaps](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemaps/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

 * 6 replies
 * 4 participants
 * Last reply from: [elmo2000](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elmo2000/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemaps-not-working/#post-4594207)
 * Status: not resolved