Title: XML Site Map
Last modified: April 27, 2018
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# XML Site Map
* [amandarmnd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandarmnd/)
* (@amandarmnd)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/)
* Hello,
* Can you please help me in creating a sitemap? What I’m doing does not seem to
be working. Thanks so much.
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* [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
* (@etoilewebdesign)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10225446)
* Hi Amanda,
* The plugin automatically creates an XML sitemap of your products, which can be
found in the root folder of our plugin. You can copy the URL of the sitemap there
and add it to whatever services you use (e.g. Google Search Console).
* If you’ve changed the permalink base for your products, then we have an option
in the SEO area of the Options tab that lets you change the URL base in the sitemap
too.
* Thread Starter [amandarmnd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandarmnd/)
* (@amandarmnd)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10228197)
* Thanks so much for your reply.
* Can you point me in the direction of where to find the root folder? Thanks!
* [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
* (@etoilewebdesign)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10232568)
* Hi Amanda,
* You can find the root folder of UPCP here: wp-content/plugins/ultimate-product-
catalogue
* Thread Starter [amandarmnd](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandarmnd/)
* (@amandarmnd)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10234383)
* Hello again…
* This is all I can find with respect to a url within that file:
“[http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9”](http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9”);
* Am I looking in the wrong place? I’m looking in the upcp-site-map.xml.
* Thanks!
* [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
* (@etoilewebdesign)
* [8 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10236049)
* If you go to “wp-content/plugins/ultimate-product-catalogue”, there is a file
called “upcp-site-map.xml”. That is the sitemap that is automatically created
by the plugin. In there, for each product, there will be an entry like:
* ```
product/my-product-slug/
2018-05-01
```
* The part is the URL. It’s relative. It doesn’t show the full URL.
* [Snap2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snap2015/)
* (@snap2015)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10270187)
* Here’s what I am having trouble with…
I’ve got multiple catalogs on my site,
each with a different URL paths. So, for example: [http://www.mysite.com/catalogs/cat-name-1-here/](http://www.mysite.com/catalogs/cat-name-1-here/)
[http://www.mysite.com/catalogs/cat-name-2-here/](http://www.mysite.com/catalogs/cat-name-2-here/)
Etc. How can I get the UPCP sitemap to show the full and correct product URL
path for each unique catalog? All I can see are two options: [http://www.mysite.com/product/product-name-here//product/product-name-here Neither version includes the middle
section of the URL. Thanks.
- This reply was modified 8 years ago by [Snap2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snap2015/).
* [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
* (@etoilewebdesign)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10279580)
* Hi snap,
* The entries in the automatically-created sitemap are for the individual product
pages. There are no automatically-created entries for the catalog pages themselves.
If you’re using a custom product page permalink base, then you can also use the“
XML Sitemap URL” setting (in the “SEO” area of the “Options” tab) to set the
base URL in the sitemap.
* If the product pages from your different catalogs have different base URLs, then,
unfortunately, there is currently no way to have it automatically create the
sitemap with product URLs that have one base for one catalog and a different
base for another catalog. If this is the case for you, we’d suggest that you
manually create a sitemap that has all your different product pages, with their
different base URLs.
* [Snap2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snap2015/)
* (@snap2015)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10282865)
* Thanks for your response. I think I’ll have to go with Plan B, creating a custom
xml sitemap with the full and correct product URL paths, although I’m not too
thrilled about it. It seems like a huge oversight on the development side, to
be frank. The plugin has “catalog” in the name, which suggests that end-users
might actually want to create, you know, catalogs. Having the full file path
in the URL & sitemap allows products to be indexed based on type, brand and category(
a silo structure) – in short, it’s better for SEO. Maybe there should be a multiple
permalink base option available in the admin so that we can avoid having to create
our own sitemaps in this situation. Just a suggestion.
* [Snap2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snap2015/)
* (@snap2015)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10292333)
* Follow up question…
I have now manually created a sitemap for the product catalogs
with the full and correct URL paths.
* Is there a way to safely disable the built-in xml sitemap for the UPCP plugin?
And can it be done in a way that doesn’t need to be repeated every time the plugin
updates?
* Obviously, I no longer need it and I don’t want for it to be crawled by Google.
* Thanks.
* [etoilewebdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/etoilewebdesign/)
* (@etoilewebdesign)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10296472)
* Hi snap,
* Unfortunately there’s no option to disable the xml creation functionality from
the admin panel at the moment. So what we could suggest you is, that you could
enable the SEO for the sitemap file you manually created in your Google Console
and remove the automatically generated sitemap from Google search console if
you added it there. Or, if you still want to disable the generation of the sitemap
via the plugin then you could comment the following line from the UPCP_Create_XML_Sitemap.
php file found in “ultimate-product-catalogue\Functions” directory.
* ```
//file_put_contents($Url, $XMLString);
```
* [loisgriffin365](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loisgriffin365/)
* (@loisgriffin365)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10371105)
* Hi
* I am trying to submit the upcp site map to google webmaster tools but can’t figure
out its URL.
* I found the upcp sitemap in the root folder and I’ve tried to submit to google
mydomain/upcp-site-map.xml but no luck
* [Snap2015](https://wordpress.org/support/users/snap2015/)
* (@snap2015)
* [8 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-site-map/#post-10372010)
* loisgriffin365, it’s in the plugin folder, so the url should look like this:
* (yourdomain)/wp-content/plugins/ultimate-product-catalogue/upcp-site-map.xml
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