Title: Two Sitemaps
Last modified: October 14, 2020

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# Two Sitemaps

 *  Resolved [xjamasterx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xjamasterx/)
 * (@xjamasterx)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sitemaps/)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for the great plugin. For some reason, the plugin now seems to be creating
   two standard XML sitemaps on my site. One is at /sitemap_index.xml and the other
   is at /sitemap.xml.
 * How do I fix this so that there is only one? Thanks!

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 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sitemaps/#post-13540204)
 * Hi, the next release will have this fixed 🙂
 * In the mean time: there is no harm in two sitemaps. Just only submit the one 
   on /sitemap.xml to your Search Console (if you have an account there)
 *  Thread Starter [xjamasterx](https://wordpress.org/support/users/xjamasterx/)
 * (@xjamasterx)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sitemaps/#post-13541092)
 * Hi Ravan,
 * Thanks for your reply! Do you know when the next release will be? I only have
   one of the sitemaps added to the Search Console, however Google is still spending
   crawl resources to scan both sitemaps, so this is a significant issue for my 
   company.
 *  Plugin Author [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * (@ravanh)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sitemaps/#post-13543366)
 * To work around it you could add a redirect rule in your htaccess or with the 
   Redirect plugin.
 * Rule for your .htaccess (replace [http://www.yoursite.com](http://www.yoursite.com)
   with your site URL):
 *     ```
       Redirect 301 /sitemap_index.xml http://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
       ```
   

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 * Last reply from: [Rolf Allard van Hagen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ravanh/)
 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/two-sitemaps/#post-13543366)
 * Status: resolved