There is reported bug (I also reported) that certain slug names are redirecting to sitemaps (e.g., “/site/news-anything” would go to empty news sitemap).
If using news seo add-on – roll back from 3.5 to 3.4; possibly roll back yoast seo to 3.4.1 — which solved it on our sites with both free and premium versions.
Wow, that is a horrible oversight by the YOAST team. I hope this gets fixed soon as it has caused me hours and hours of work trying to fix. In the meantime, I will attempt to roll back the plugin. Is this an easy thing to do? I have never done it.
If this fixes the problem, I can’t thank you enough neotrope!
I rolled back YOAST SEO via using the Rollback plugin. However, I don’t have a rollback option for YOAST News. Probably since that was installed via zip file since it is a purchase? I also don’t have the previous version, as I deleted it when I figured it was causing my problem…then re-downloaded it last night (which is the latest version). Any suggestion?
@rdroste23 Please contact our premium support team to request the previous version of the News SEO plugin. Include a link to this forum post and let them know you’re rolling back due to a reported bug.
How can I get premium support?
This would also be good time to make a back up strategy for your site project(s); keep all installers for themes, plugins, and WordPress core in a folder by date/month or similar. This way you can “roll back” when something goes wrong. And of course, make periodic backups of your mysql dbase.
