About the bug of the plugin Google XML Sitemaps

  • Resolved kurora28

    (@kurora28)


    2 years, 5 months ago

    On the setting screen of the plugin Google XML Sitemaps, the ID of the front page (top page) of the fixed page is automatically entered in the column of “Do not include posts (individual articles) of Excluded Items:”.
    If you update the created post page or fixed page, the ID will be entered without permission. Even if you delete the ID and update the settings, the ID will be entered again.

    Is it a bug in the plugin? The plugin was recently updated to the latest version Google XML Sitemaps (version 4.1.3 to 4.1.4), but the problem is not fixed.
    Is it related to the theme? The theme used is THE THOR.

    Is there a way to fix the problem so that the ID cannot be entered without permission?
    Should I use another XML Sitemaps plugin?
    In that case, please let us know if you have a recommended XML Sitemaps plugin. Please give us a reason for your recommendation. Please also give us a recommended setting method.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    @kurora28 I archived your 3rd topic about the same thing. This is the right place to ask, before in the Everything else WordPress forum was the wrong place.

    And what is the answer to his question? I have the same problem, my homepage ID is automatically added to excluded pages. What’s more, the page ID of my custom 404 page that I did exclude isn’t – at least Google still complains about a 404 on that page.

    Same issue here.

    Plugin Author Auctollo

    (@auctollo)

    @kurora28 / @ulim / @faxon22: can you please make sure that you are not excluding any item in robots.txt? Our plugin will read the robots.txt and add excluded items into the exclude items text box automatically.

    Here is my robots.txt:

    https://www.apothekarium.de/robots.txt

    I don’t see anything suspicious in there. Somehow the ID of my homepage gets added to excluded pages. When I remove it and save, it is gone for a while, but re-appears at some point.

    Thread Starter kurora28

    (@kurora28)

    @auctollo: Robots.txt on my site. Nothing has been modified in the default state.

    https://kuro-lifeblog.com/robots.txt

    Is it a plugin bug?
    Please tell me how to fix it.

    Same problem here.

    Are you are working to fix this bug?

    Se controllo la Sitemap generata, la pagina indicata nella impostazioni di WordPress come Homepage è inclusa.
    Credo che l’ID viene escluso per evitare duplicati e si riferisce alla pagina genitore, ovvero miosito.com/nome_pagina_genitore.

    Not clear if someone is aware of this issue and if they are fixing it. I have to manually update 50 sites and delete the home page exclusion. How is this possible? Should we switch to another plugin?

    ok. I’ve been loyal to this plugin for a very long time and I appreciate how it works and the care the that @auctollo put into making it work correctly. But ever since the plugin was taken over by another company, it seems that they have neglected it and that is sad. I’ve attempted to communicate with them but they appear to be non-responsive.

    So anyway, after much research, comparing almost 10 other sitemap plugins, I found one that offers very similar features:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/companion-sitemap-generator/

    Also, to make sure any 3rd party sitemap plugin works, I’ve learned that since WordPress 5.5 we have to DEACTIVATE the “built-in” sitemap generator.
    There is a plugin for that:
    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/disable-wp-sitemaps/

    Or I’ve also learned that you can add the following code to your functions.php file:

    // removing built in wordpress sitemap
    add_filter( ‘wp_sitemaps_enabled’, ‘__return_false’ );

    Thanks for reaching out to us. We released version 4.1.5 two months back. Please make sure you are using the latest version.
    The new version deployment is on the cards, once you update to the latest version, the issue will be fixed.

    Hi, @auctollo can you please check my website im using google xml sitemaps for so long but now i have some issues, when i turn on include categories option in sitemap options it shows link this is sitemap sitemap-tax–6.xml, and it shows error in google webmaster tools, i really need to turn on categories option but i really can’t please tell me how to fix, this is my website.
    Thanks
    https://herogayab.me/

    saurabhdhariwal01

    (@saurabhdhariwal01)

    @kundalii Thanks for reaching out to us, Can you please provide some more detail about the error you are seeing in the google webmaster tool? So, We can debug it better and get back to you with the solution as soon as possible

    Hi, @saurabhdhariwal01 Thank for replying, i have just turn on again include categories option and it works this time, now all of my categories showing in sitemap.
    if you go to my website /sitemap.xml you can see now all of categories in sitemap is showing like this /sitemap-tax-category-3.xml, but before that it was like this /sitemap-tax–6.xml, and if you open it there was no category.
    But now its fine Thanks.

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