Ivan

James,

I’ve noticed this issue too, but it was only an intermittent issue that actually happened while we were also dealing with server issues. Have you tried clearing the browser cache’s on the computers that people use to edit the site?

You’re welcome! Alright, I understand what you’re going for now.

In your admin panel (here) on the left hand side, you should see a tab for ‘Appearance.’ Hover over that and you should see a link for ‘Menu.’ Click on that. Do you see any menu links that says ‘Home’ within the menu structure? It will likely be at the very top of the list.

Thalloran, what do you mean by ‘Home’ page? There are several options with WordPress, 1 of which is setting any page that you’ve created as your ‘home’ page another is setting your blogroll (or your posts, as you create them) to be your homepage. A standard blog generally sets their blogroll as their home page.

Is that what you’re asking?

Thanks for all the replies, everyone! I’ve gone about troubleshooting the issue using the above ideas as well as a few additional ones.

Placing the Rewrite rules from Yoast’s FAQ page didn’t do the trick for me. Even after restarting the plugin, clearing caches etc.

The WordPress SEO plugin has gone through an update since the original post, and it did change the error message for me. It now reads ‘Error loading stylesheet: An XSLT stylesheet does not have an XML mimetype:’

I also went through the process of placing
AddType application/xml .xsl
per this WordPress forum post. That didn’t work for me either.

What I ended up doing was downloading the sitemap.xml from the server via FTP, once it was open I noticed that there was a line in there referencing an XSL stylesheet, clearly I don’t need the sitemap to look pretty for Google to recognize it. Therefore I just removed the line and re-uploaded. With that done I can now view the /sitemap.xml even if I still can’t see /sitemap_index.xml.

Hopefully that helps someone!

Venki, I don’t think you’ll find much help in this portion of the support forums. Visit the Themes and Troubleshooting subforum and you should be able to find someone to help out with your question.

I know this sounds stupid, but try verifying that your stylesheet is being linked correctly. If you’re using Chrome (Or Firefox with Firebug, as Esmi mentioned above) and you inspect an element, it will tell you what stylesheet it’s calling and even what line on the stylesheet itself. It’s at least a first step in debugging your code.

After that, I would try checking for unclosed styles such as:

.widget {
background-color:#f4f4f4 <- No ending semicolon
color: #000;
 <- No closing bracket
.this {
color #000;
}

Unclosed styles oftentimes leave undesired results such as stopping any styles below them from being read.

I don’t have an extensive amount of experience with Hostnet, but my first instinct would be that it is in fact a hosting problem. Did your site suddenly get slow, or has it been slow since you launched?

I use HostGator for all of my sites and I’ve been fairly pleased overall. I do know one time that they had a server malfunction and my sites were extremely slow temporarily, but it was fixed within the hour.