Title: Sitemap timeout
Last modified: September 24, 2021

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# Sitemap timeout

 *  Resolved [jucanation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jucanation/)
 * (@jucanation)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-timeout/)
 * Hi there,
 * Recently, noticed our sitemap is timing out. Memory and timeout settings are 
   set way above average but I think this may be due to very large amounts of metadata
   on our products. We have around 3000 active products, all with lots of content
 * I’m not sure if the sitemap is timing out while looping through the products,
   and if this would be the cause?
 * Even when the sitemap is set to 10 products, it still times out. I’m not sure
   if this could be the reason, and if there was a way to make the sitemap ignore
   the metadata for each product, and only look at titles?
 * We have both ‘Transient Cache Settings’ and ‘Output optimized sitemap’ enabled
 * Thanks!
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 8 months ago by [jucanation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jucanation/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Sybre Waaijer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cybr/)
 * (@cybr)
 * [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-timeout/#post-14907584)
 * Hello!
 * > I think this may be due to very large amounts of metadata on our products.
 * Most likely, yes. I’m afraid we cannot work around that. There must be another
   plugin trying to interact with the metadata system working incorrectly.
 * Please deactivate plugins in succession until the timeout stops; that will help
   you find the offending plugin.
 * If this doesn’t work out well, please deactivated the ‘optimized sitemap’ and
   default to the Core sitemap — that one is also generated by TSF but put in another
   jacket, with pagination support.

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 * Last activity: [4 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-timeout/#post-14907584)
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