Title: Please include sitemaps
Last modified: March 1, 2017

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# Please include sitemaps

 *  Resolved [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * (@kgagne)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/)
 * Hello!
 * I recently used this plugin for the first time, and it did what I expected on
   the first try. I’m very happy with it!
 * But I did notice that my site’s sitemap.xml file was not downloaded. Google Webmaster
   Tools relies on this file, so I manually reproduced it for the static HTML site.
   It’d be great if Simply Static checked for this file in its scan — as well as
   any files or pages the sitemap links to that may have otherwise escaped the initial
   scan. (In my case, the sitemap plugin I was using breaks down the sitemap into
   dozens of constituent parts, so I had to grab each one.)
 * Separately, in the ZIP file that the plugin generated, in the wp-content folder,
   was another folder called wp-static-html-output-1-1488341640-kgagne, which recursively
   contained yet another copy of the site. This seems more like a temporary folder
   that should’ve been excluded. Did I misconfigure my settings?
 * -Ken

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 *  [thisislawatts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisislawatts/)
 * (@thisislawatts)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8935354)
 * Thanks for flagging this [@kgagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/).
   I have been playing about with Simply Static today and was a little surprised
   to see that the XML files were not generated as part of this process.
 * I’m using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. Which plugin are you using for sitemaps?
 *  Thread Starter [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * (@kgagne)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8935496)
 * I’m pretty sure I was using [Google XML Sitemaps](https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/).
 *  [thisislawatts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisislawatts/)
 * (@thisislawatts)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8941338)
 * Hey [@kgagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/),
 * Thanks for the information.
 * I tried adding the URL of my main sitemap to the Additional URLs setting and 
   it crawled all of the linked maps. 👌
 * ![Simply Static](https://i0.wp.com/bcmh.s3.amazonaws.com/SimplyStaticSettings.
   png)
 * Give it a shot!
    -  This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by [thisislawatts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisislawatts/).
 *  Thread Starter [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * (@kgagne)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8941348)
 * Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that? Thanks for the heads-up!
 * BTW, I noticed the plugin tended to rename folders that have spaces in them. 
   By poor design on my end, my site’s theme was in a folder called “Home Gym Folder”.
   The version produced by the Static HTML plugin was called “Home%20Game%20Folder”,
   causing all links to “Home Gym Folder” to break. Simply renaming the folder back
   to its original name was an easy fix.
 * -Ken
 *  [thisislawatts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisislawatts/)
 * (@thisislawatts)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8986123)
 * Hey [@kgagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/),
 * Thanks for the note about ensuring there are no spaces in Theme folders, good
   to know.
 * Would you be happy to mark this item as resolved? A feature request for the plugin
   going forward might be to check if there are sitemaps on the site and automatically
   include those via **Include/Exclude > Additional URLs** but otherwise I think
   this thread has a good solution in place.
 *  Thread Starter [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * (@kgagne)
 * [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8986622)
 * Done!

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 * Last reply from: [Ken Gagne](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kgagne/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/please-include-sitemaps/#post-8986622)
 * Status: resolved