Sitemap not submitted since instalation

I just noticed the same thing: The admin page says “Result of the last ping, started on …” the date and time I installed the beta version 4 two days ago.

In Debug mode, the “Build Process Results” also show that time for the pings.

It seems the ping depends on wp-cron, which we have turned off. because it is now updated, giving the time as that when wp-cron is run by a crontab command.

Afraid you’ve lost me, does that mean you have the solution? if yes can you explain solution to a non techie
best ashar

If you’re a non techie, then it’s unlikely that you disabled wp-cron (which is triggered every time someone views a WordPress page and runs background processes such as publishing a scheduled post when it’s time). On the other hand, disabling it is only a matter of adding a line to the config file, so you should check your config.php for the following:

define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);

If it’s there, you can try commenting it out by putting a # character at the start of the line. Then with config.php saved in your installation, look at a couple of posts, and then go to the XML Sitemaps admin page and see if it’s made the pings.

If this is indeed where the problem is, then you need to decide whether to leave wp-cron enabled or solve the problem some other way, of which I can suggest 2: run wp-cron periodically, or ping Google and Bing yourself.

Each of these can be done with a crontab command or by simply loading a URL yourself.

The ping URLs are:

https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.org%2Fsitemap.xml
https://www.bing.com/webmaster/ping.aspx?siteMap=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.domain.org%2Fsitemap.xml

The URL to run wp-cron is:

https://www.domain.org/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron

Realizing that the pinging seemed to require wp-cron solved the problem for our site, but if your wp-cron is not disabled, I’m afraid the problem must be elsewhere.

Wow thanks for that, I will have a go!
fingers crossed

Found this thread in a search. I’m having this same problem. Discovered that the Google XML Sitemap has not updated since its installation in April 2013.

I checked wp.config file and Cron is not disabled. The plug-in is set to “Rebuild sitemap if you change the content of your blog.”

The site is not using a cache plug-in, but it does use Wordfence, though I can’t find any alternate cron settings there.

Any thoughts? I appreciate, in advance, any help. Thanks!