Sitemap broken in latest update 1.4.14

@joostdevalk:

Went to Settings -> Permalinks and hit save. Still not working…

https://reflectonthis.com/sitemap_index.xml

@chris M. @joostdevalk

I guess he’s saying that although you can’t see it, it works? I’m in the same boat. None of the fixes have worked, and switching to 1.14.13 just leaves me with a ton of 404’d Category pages. :-/ I hope this gets sorted soon.

Google webmaster gives also errors with 1.4.14.

Blank screen in other browsers than FireFox. Firefox gives missing XLS file error. Flushing like Joost suggested didn’t work for me

Also having same problem since updating, it has also broken the homepage of the site (using Avada wordpress theme) it shows the latest news title I posted and removes half of the page.

Great plugin, but any idea of when this will be fixed? I have had to disable it for now.

Back to 1.4.13: all works well, also according to google webmaster

Hm and reverting to prior version doesn’t work for me either

I just checked my server and it is now not creating the sitemap at all which explains the 404.

No caching is switched on and the previous version also does not work.

I have had a problem with the last couple of releases. I have posted elsewhere, so just trying a different support thread. I am sooo frustrated right now.

I’ve done the permalink thing, edited files. My sitemaps are rejected by google now (and organic traffic has take a nose dive).

A blank line is put at the beginning, which seems to be the error.

XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”https://www.3deers.com/sitemap.xsl&#8221;?>
^

Fixed for me in release 1.4.15. Thanks @joostdevalk

Yes, 1.4.15 seems to do the trick!

Thank goodness… Not that bad — a day.

For me too, the new release fixed it.

Thank you so much @joostdevalk

a Blank line is put in the beginning ..
Where is it in which file, because I can’t find it and I still have the error

@patter38 it seems to be that you have a error the same as me and anyone else, so the problem is not fix at all

I just installed the new version (1.4.15). Same thing.
Using Firefox, click https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml.

You will see the message…
XML Parsing Error: XML or text declaration not at start of entity
Location: https://www.3deers.com/sitemap_index.xml
Line Number 2, Column 1:<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?><?xml-stylesheet type=”text/xsl” href=”https://www.3deers.com/main-sitemap.xsl&#8221;?>
^

Now, right click and “View Page Source”. The first line is blank. Looks at any of the sub-pages… same message.

I appreciate the plugin developers looking at this… I get the error in other browsers, too… Firefoox is just nice and clean on the display/viewsource.