Title: Problem with sitemaps
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problem with sitemaps

 *  Resolved [Harry B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zap2zero/)
 * (@zap2zero)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/)
 * Hi there,
 * I have problems using Contact Form 7 together with WordPress SEO by Yoast.
 * I just created my first form and my XML sitemap stopped working since it no longer
   validates.
    The problem in the sitemap is this entry: <loc>[http://harry.subnetworx.de/?post_type=wpcf7_contact_form&p=434</loc&gt](http://harry.subnetworx.de/?post_type=wpcf7_contact_form&p=434</loc&gt);
 * As you can see, the & is not encoded correctly but the main problem is, that 
   the whole URI is not a valid WP URI and hence I think that the problem might 
   not be on the sitemap-creator side but on the data structure of Contact Form 
   7.
 * This is just a guess though.
 * Is there a way to solve this issue?
 * Zap.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/#post-4489474)
 * Please include a link to your Contact Form 7 form. If others here are able to
   understand your actual problem, they may be able and willing to offer a possible
   solution.
 *  Thread Starter [Harry B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zap2zero/)
 * (@zap2zero)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/#post-4489495)
 * The form is at [http://harry.subnetworx.de/contact/](http://harry.subnetworx.de/contact/)
 * Harry.
 *  Thread Starter [Harry B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zap2zero/)
 * (@zap2zero)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/#post-4489635)
 * I solved the problem and wrote an article about it in my blog.
    In case you have
   the same problem, have a look at [broken WordPress sitemaps](http://harry.subnetworx.de/2014/01/14/broken-wordpress-sitemaps/).
 *  Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * (@jdembowski)
 * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/#post-4489636)
 * > I solved the problem and wrote an article about it in my blog.
 * Thanks Harry but instead of posting a link to your blog post could you instead
   share here the solution?
 * You’d be helping out more people if you did.

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 * [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/sitemap/)
 * [xml](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/xml/)

 * 4 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-with-sitemaps/#post-4489636)
 * Status: resolved