Title: XML Sitemap error: Error loading stylesheet
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# XML Sitemap error: Error loading stylesheet

 *  [thisiskris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisiskris/)
 * (@thisiskris)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-error-error-loading-stylesheet/)
 * I don’t know how long it has been broken, but I saw my Google rankings drop and
   decided to do some research.
 * **Category 404s:**
 * I found that all of my categories would return 404’s and my sitemap was generating
   404s in Google Webmaster Tools.
 * I began deactivating plugins and was surprised to see the 404 category taxonomy
   issue disappear once I deactivated WordPress SEO (this plugin has been rock-solid
   which is why I was surprised).
 * **XML Sitemap Issues**
 * I was running 1.14.13 when these issues were discovered, and was excited to see
   1.14.14 come out right in the middle of the issues. I immediately updated. It
   appears the Category 404s went away, but I now get this instead when I try to
   go to the sitemap:
 * > Error loading stylesheet: A network error occurred loading an XSLT stylesheet:
   > [http://example.com/sitemap.xsl](http://example.com/sitemap.xsl)
 * I’ve tried all of the fixes suggested including updating my .htaccess according
   to Yoast.com as well as disabling sitemaps and re-enabling, but no matter what,
   I always get the error.
 * For now, I’m considering turning off sitemaps and using google XML sitemaps or
   ditching WordPress SEO altogether and just using Genesis SEO with Google XML 
   sitemaps.
 * I love WordPress SEO, so I hope these are just some hiccups, but I was definitely
   bummed to see my Google ranks slip. That costs money :-/
 * Anyways, I’m not trying to be a freeloading complainer. You guys are awesome,
   and I hope this works out (and honestly, I’d pay for a premium version of this
   plugin sans-these issues), but I wanted to let you know what I was experiencing
   as your customer (albeit a freeloading one).
 * Thanks again,
    Kris

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 *  [astrasuite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/astrasuite/)
 * (@astrasuite)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-error-error-loading-stylesheet/#post-4053771)
 * I love WordPress SEO, I am still using version 1.4.7 though, waiting for all 
   the problems to clear from this support forum for the later versions (just like
   Nextgen) before I upgrade, or change SEO program.
 * I like it as it was easy to do some minor mods for titles and desc to prevent
   duplicates that Yoast missed, as well as length issues. So, I finally get the
   coveted Google Webmaster results below from one of my sites, and just a few issues
   on another much bigger site (basically because Google didn’t completely re-crawl
   them yet) :
 * “**HTML Improvements**
    Last updated Aug 19, 2013 We didn’t detect any content
   issues with your site. As we crawl your site, we check it to detect any potential
   issues with content on your pages, including duplicate, missing, or problematic
   title tags or meta descriptions. …”

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-error-error-loading-stylesheet/#post-4053771)
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