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XML error on sitemap.xml [closed]

This is probably due to empty lines inside your custom php files. Try checking every php file you edited for empty lines after the ?> closing tag: the tag should be the last character of any file.

WordPress site using Yoast SEO being blocked from indexing by robots.txt

Missing XML tag in the Sitemap

Should /wp-includes/js/* folder be blocked in robots.txt file for a WordPress website?

XML Sitemap Generator and 404 problem

I’m having the same issue with one of my customers I’m consulting with. We’ve done 100’s of WordPress installs on our own or other dedicated machines with no issues. Some hosting companies have issues with WordPress plugins due to the path structure in some hosting environments. I can FTP into root directory, delete Yahoo’s preloaded … Read more

3 different ways to check the number of pages on site gives 3 different answers

Possible mistake: depends on what you mean by ‘page’. Search engines would count archives pages as pages, whereas WordPress will only count post-type page, not archives nor posts.

Password protected sites

The easier way can be have a group of users called teachers and give just the teacher’s group the permission to visit the page. There are many plugins for permission handling and grouping users so you’ll just need to search WordPress plugin repository. Just an example: groups plugin Another possible answer can be : multi … Read more

Pinging or sitemap plugin: which practice is better

Pings are a mechanism for a fast update. For example if you are using a external feed service you want it to update as fast as possible when new post is up. Search engines do not care about it in this way. Pinging search engine won’t typically mean it will bother to index page immediately … Read more

Sitemap_index.xml is not displayed

First of all, you can use Stack Overflow in Russian, there is a WordPress tag. Concerning your question, it seems everything is OK with your sitemap. Yoast SEO generates index sitemap mentioned in your question and several sitemaps for pages, posts, taxonomies, products in WooCommerce etc. You can check this sitemap in Google Search Console, … Read more

How to remove WordPress Virtual Robots.txt that keeps overriding my root robots.txt? [closed]

Okay, after digging into various areas, I noticed I have a security plugin that is blocking these changes. Problem solved by whitelisting, 🙂 in case anyone else has this issue, check your security settings.

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