tigerman

Thanks for the help, I just found that this occurred because I had made both the tag slug and the category slug as the word “topics”. Once I changed one of them and re-created the sitemap using the sitemaps plugin everything is fine now.

Thanks, I have another question I would like to display the photo of the user/author along with the author name, I checked the URL Codex author templates, it has no field for author picture, so I checked the source for WP admin screen authors & users screen, to see how that displays the user photo and I eventually landed on wp-admin/includes/user.php which has these fields for WP_User
$user = new WP_User( $user_id );
$user->user_login = attribute_escape($user->user_login);
$user->user_email = attribute_escape($user->user_email);
$user->user_url = clean_url($user->user_url);
$user->first_name = attribute_escape($user->first_name);
$user->last_name = attribute_escape($user->last_name);
$user->display_name = attribute_escape($user->display_name);
$user->nickname = attribute_escape($user->nickname);
$user->aim = isset( $user->aim ) && !empty( $user->aim ) ? attribute_escape($user->aim) : ”;
$user->yim = isset( $user->yim ) && !empty( $user->yim ) ? attribute_escape($user->yim) : ”;
$user->jabber = isset( $user->jabber ) && !empty( $user->jabber ) ? attribute_escape($user->jabber) : ”;
$user->description = isset( $user->description ) && !empty( $user->description ) ? wp_specialchars($user->description) : ”;

return $user;

But there is no field for picture or photo of the user! From where do I get that?