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Latest post by on Friday, 07 August 2020 17:17 CDT
Hi there,
We are using Admin tools for Wordpress on our sites. We have an issue. Admin tools is preventing SEO plugins to show a working sitemap. I have tried Yoast SEO and SEO Press and come to the same result: Blank page sitemaps.xml.
Is there a setting or permission in the "Admin tools" that I have to change in order to have the sitemap showing?
Thank you
Celia
It is not preventing the sitemap from working. The sitemap.xml is loaded just fine. It's not even a real file, it's a route in WordPress which always works. What's blocked is the XSL file which is used when accessing the sitemap.xml over a browser to convert it to human-readable HTML.
Go to Admin Tools, .htaccess Maker. In the “Files which will always be made accessible” area add
wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/css/main-sitemap.xsl
and click on the Save and Create .htaccess button at the bottom.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
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Hi Nicholas,
Thanks for your answer.
I believe this path is for a different SEO WordPress plugin. I tried but it does not work.
In most of our websites, we are using :
- Yoast SEO
- SEO Press PRo https://www.seopress.org/
Could you please provide the files to exclude for those 2 plugins or directions on how to know which files?
Thank you,
Celia
The solution I gave you is for Yoast. Please do remember that Google and every other search engine have no problem reading your sitemap even without this change. The only thing this change does is that it allows your browser to display the sitemap. If you still have a problem with search engines picking up your sitemap the problem lies elsewhere. I can tell you with certainty since my blog was using WordPress with Yoast between 2016 and early 2020. I was of course using its sitemap feature – who wouldn't?
I've never used SEO Press Pro. If you can attach its installation ZIP file to your next reply I can take a look at it and tell you what is required to make it work – if anything is required at all.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!
Hi there,
We had another client write in and suggest the following solution for this plugin:
I have resolved this conflict by allowing both the files:
RewriteRule ^sitemap_index\.xml$ - [L]
RewriteRule ^wp\-content\/plugins\/wordpress\-seo\/css\/main\-sitemap\.xsl$ - [L]
Give that a try and see if it works. Please note we have not tested this code ourselves, but at a glance it should be okay.
