Ahni

If you’re still getting a 404, you might want to add this handsome looking snippet to your .htaccess file. It worked for me.

# WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^sitemap_index\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=1 [L]
RewriteRule ^([^/]+?)-sitemap([0-9]+)?\.xml$ /index.php?sitemap=$1&sitemap_n=$2 [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress SEO - XML Sitemap Rewrite Fix

Solution originally posted at: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/plugin-wordpress-seo-by-yoast-fix-for-sitemap_indexxml-404-error

We’re not really talking about “commercial purposes” though. I mean, the developers of scribe seo aren’t offering a non-commercial version of the plugin. And even though it was released under a gpl licence, that doesn’t really mean anything because, one way or another, you have to pay out to use the plugin.

That said, I’m cool with commercial plugins. But the WordPress Plugin Directory really isn’t the place for them any more than the WP theme directory is the place for commercial themes.

About your second point, nickohrn, I run a non-profit journal about human rights abuses that don’t get covered by the press. In many cases, I’m one of the only English speakers in the world covering these situations, so having a high rank in search engines is pretty important. If people can’t find my site, then they aren’t going to know what’s happening. My interest in Scribe SEO, though, is more in the analysis it provides. It can help me improve my copy.

Speaking as a disabled person with no disposable income, I agree with you. In theory, there’s nothing wrong with it. But in practice, it degrades wordpress and insults indivudals such as myself who may actually have a real-life need for the functionality this plugin offers.

At least Akismet is free. With Srcibe Seo, you don’t even get to take it for a spin.

Thanks for the quick reply, ampt. Bonus point to you ?? – As well, for the explanations. And no problem, reporting on that last thing there. Glad to know you’re going to fix that.

Take care, Ahni

Yeah, it’s long gone. But it’s probably for the best anyway, at least in my case. After being spam-free for more than a year, in January, I started getting flooded with spam again. And since the plugin wasn’t being updated, I switched to Raven’s anti-spam. https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/ravens-antispam/

Raven’s anti-spam was working awesome; that is, until this morning. Now I am once again being flooded. Gonna give growmap a try https://www.ads-software.com/extend/plugins/growmap-anti-spambot-plugin/

Thanks John. I’m not sure how Raven’s anti spam works either, but it’s pretty good as far as deterrents go. I’ve been using it for about two years now.

I’ve give the plugin a go this week end. Thanks again!

Hey John. It’d be great if you could do both views for the counter; but if you can only do one, showing it right off the bat would definitely be the way to go. If you’re up for it, you could even build a template function so people can do something like https://www.rainforest-rescue.org/mailalert (note the counter is right under the title).

For the captcha, I don’t have any particular preference, myself (I use “Raven’s anti-spam” on the site); though, your email verification idea sounds good :D.

But you need an API key to use it, don’t you? And that costs money scribeseo.com/how-to-obtain-a-scribe-api-key/

Please Correct me if I’m wrong, because I actually need this plugin, and I simply can’t afford “$17.00 a month” – I don’t even get that many donations in a year.

Been looking for the same thing. I know Drupal has such a plugin ( module, https://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_xml ) but I don’t think there’s one for WP yet.

There’s a few other plugins we need too, like one to move cat terms and tag terms to our new custom tax.

I think we’re still too dazzled by taxonomies to make them all ??

nope, I got rid of all my caching plugins a few months back. I think it’s something to do with the IDs being included in the URLS, so instead of /language/fr/category/world-news it’s language/fr/9/category/world-news/ both URLs are 404 though. The same thing happens with singles but those URLs are working.

Well done, Stevevls! It works! And good thinking, too; that never would’ve occurred to me.

Ok, I’m going to mark this topic as resolved ?? I think I should probably open another thread, though, cuz there seems to be a bit of a problem with the way URLs are being handled. I’m getting a bunch of 404s.

Again, great work, and thank you for your efforts.

hmm, that didn’t work either. Plugin or no plugin, It’s the same old error.

I’m not sure what else it could be, stevevles. I’ve gone over my theme with a fine tooth comb but I just can’t find any problems. Maybe I’ll try omitting my functions again. Unless you have any other suggestions or workarounds? Even it’s messy, I don’t mind.

Yeah, It’s the same error message. But there is some good news: It’s working on the front page! It’s just happening in the news category (9) now.

I wonder, if it’s no trouble, could you test my theme with the “simply-exclude” plugin? I’m using a bunch of different plugins but this is the only one that effects how categories are handled. It might’ve done something to my database. Meanwhile, I’m going to go through the wp-options table for references to the category.

darn, it didn’t work. I’m sure it’s because of that problem with the category though, so I’llget working on that now.

Also, a small heads up, stevevls: the gts image isn’t working anymore. The link points to “logo_trans_sm.png” but I think it should be “logo_trans.png”

wish me luck

WP is somehow identifying your homepage as a category page

Good work, stevevls! I completely forgot about that. I know exactly which category it’s looking for too, but I don’t know why the heck it’s calling it.

In any case, I’ll update the plugin a little later today. I’ll definitely let you know how it goes.

And thank you very much for all your efforts.