Sitemap Error

  • Resolved deepakem

    (@deepakem)


    5 years, 11 months ago

    I have used the Health Check plugin as suggested by articles on Yoast website and found that when Yoast was activated the problem was still there. According to the article, this suggests some problem with the Yoast plugin itself. I have raised an issue on the Yoast website as well with an attached Bug Report.

    The sitemap_index.xml page throws an error “error on line 3 at column 6: XML declaration allowed only at the start of the document” on Chrome, and keeps loading in Firefox with an orangish red box displayed. I have checked and function.php and wp-config.php and there are no whitespaces or empty lines at the beginning or the end of them. Please help me fix this.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Plugin Support amboutwe

    (@amboutwe)

    This happens when something in your WordPress install is outputting white space and it shouldn’t.

    As you’ve checked the common places like the config file, something else in your install is outputting whitespace.

    Do you have any must use or drop in plugins as these are not disabled when using the Health Check plugin?

    Does enabling the WP debug change the whitespace in the source code to an error message?

    Thread Starter deepakem

    (@deepakem)

    There are no must use plugins, other than Health Check itself which I have installed only yesterday as instructed by a Yoast article. I enabled WP debug as well, the error is the same and whitespace doesn’t change either.

    This is how it appears on Chrome – https://www.screencast.com/t/ObhmTTWy

    On Firefox – https://www.screencast.com/t/RIBLggcou88X

    The whitespace earlier was two blank lines before XML declaration, now there’s one after I removed unnecessary default themes.

    • This reply was modified 5 years, 11 months ago by deepakem.

    Hi,

    We understand that you are getting the XML declaration error on your sitemap: https://manjeettattooz.com/sitemap_index.xml. We would like some more information.

    When the healthcheck plugin was installed, did you perform the complete conflict check as described in this article: https://kb.yoast.com/kb/how-to-check-for-plugin-conflicts/?

    Did you switch to a basic theme like 2015 and deactivate all plugins except Yoast?

    Thread Starter deepakem

    (@deepakem)

    I found the issue, it was with a gallery plugin. Thank you for your response.

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