<img src="http://<img src=”https://preview.ibb.co/nQdOna/sitemap_issue.png” alt=”sitemap_issue” border=”0″ /><br />image of a safe<br />” alt=”sitemap 2″ />
Sorry click the above link to see the image. Cant work out how to show the preview in wordpress forums
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This reply was modified 9 years ago by
harveyl12.
First, this will not cause problems at all. What you are seeing is simply the code which is all that Google or other search engines see because they use bots to read the code.
Why is it happening?
The stylesheet that converts the code to the columns and makes it human readable is not loading.
How can it be fixed?
There are two common causes:
1. Your sitemap is being cached. If you have cache enabled, please ensure your sitemap is excluded.
2. The stylesheet loads an error. View the source code of the sitemap and look for the URL that ends in xsl. Open the URL in a browser. Resolve any errors if the page doesn’t look like an empty sitemap. How To View The Page Source of Your Site
It was being cached by another plugin if mine, fixed it yesterday thanks
