Problem with sitemaps

Hi @aronu,

I hope you are doing well today!

Please try resaving your permalinks from WordPress Dashboard->Settings->Permalinks->Save changes then try again.

Please let us know the results accordingly.

Kind regards,
Zafer

Hi @aronu

Do you have any other plugins related to SEO (especially sitemaps and/or robots.txt) active on site currently? If yes – what is it?

Could you, please, share a link to your sitemap so we could take a look at it?

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi @aronu

Thank you for checking other plugins and letting us know!

I couldn’t check the sitemap as site is currently under maintenance mode (so I’m blocked) but it actually does help.

I checked the Admin and Site Enhancements plugin and was able to replicate the issue on my end – happening due to the maintenance mode enabled in this plugin.

Basically, it’s not really an issue with sitemap but an issue with SmartCrawl and its “Troubleshoot Sitemap” tool not being able to access sitemap for testing. It does that just like it would be an external crawler and so it is blocked by the “maintenance mode”, just like any other “external visitor”.

That’s also why there’s no more issue when you disable the entire “Admin and Site Enhancements” plugin – site goes out of maintenance mode and sitemap becomes accessible.

To sum it up, I wouldn’t really worry about it and once you disable maintenance mode (where you are ready for it) the error should be showing up no more – and until then, in this particular case it’s not an indication of real issue with sitemap but rather a “false alert” due to SmartCrawl being blocked (just like search engines and other visitor) from accessing site and sitemap.

Kind regards,
Adam

Hi @aronu

Pretty much yes. To be specific – there doesn’t seem to be the problem but rather “false alert”. But yes, this alert is due to maintenance mode.

Best regards,
Adam