W3TotalCache/YoastSEO – Sitemap not showing {solved?}

  • Resolved Nick LaBrant

    (@nick-labrant)


    10 years, 7 months ago

    I was having a lot of trouble with this – as the sitemap was ‘showing’, but didn’t have any results. Webmaster Tools reported it as being an HTML file – and not a proper .xml file.

    So, after lots of digging – and a LOT of dropped forum links, i’m here to maybe help some people.

    Don’t minify your html – as this is preventing the xml file from being read properly. As it’s a feed, it’s being minified – and this won’t allow the sitemap_index.xml (as created by Yoast’s plugin) from displaying properly.

    Hope this helps some people… took me half a day, and after not finding this answer on dozens of closed posts – I figured it should be brought to attention!

    W3 Total Cache – 0.9.4
    Wordpress SEO (Yoast) – 1.4.7 (installed older version via FTP during troubleshooting, didn’t help – but I am going to update it right now – and update this post with details/results)

    https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/

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  • Thread Starter Nick LaBrant

    (@nick-labrant)

    Updated “WordPress SEO” (Yoast’s SEO plugin) to 1.5.4.2, with no further issues…

    Sitemap is displaying properly again!

    Let me know if this helps you out!

    Hi Nick, thanks for sharing but what has this ro do with the XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds plugin? Did you find that the W3TC minification caused an error with the sitemaps from XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds? If so, please tell me more because I cannot reproduce any error.

    Thread Starter Nick LaBrant

    (@nick-labrant)

    Not sure how this was placed in this category… my apologies, it’s only to do with the W3TotalCache and WordPress SEO’s XML sitemap conflict. Nothing to do with Google News feed….

    How did that happen??

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