Title: Why multiple sitemap files
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Why multiple sitemap files

 *  [jbnz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jbnz/)
 * (@jbnz)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-multiple-sitemap-files/)
 * For some reason, my main sitemap.xml file contains a list of other xml sitemap
   files which contain my posts by month
 * e.g. in sitemap.xml I have
 * sitemap-pt-post-2014-07.xml
    sitemap-pt-post-2014-06.xml
 * Which contain the posts for July and June this year respectively.
 * As I understood it, I would only have one sitemap XML file listing all posts 
   for the site?
 * Cheers
    John
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/)

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 *  [Arne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/arnee/)
 * (@arnee)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/why-multiple-sitemap-files/#post-5101606)
 * Please see this link for more information about the new format:
 * [http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/google-xml-sitemap-generator-new-sitemap-format/](http://www.arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator/google-xml-sitemap-generator-new-sitemap-format/)

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