{"id":5198,"date":"2008-12-23T23:14:44","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T17:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/?p=5198"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:11:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:41:40","slug":"write-errors-in-google-sitemaps-wordpress-plugin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/2008\/12\/write-errors-in-google-sitemaps-wordpress-plugin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fix Write Errors in Google Sitemaps WordPress Plugin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after upgrading to WordPress 2.7, I realized my trusted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnebrachhold.de\/projects\/wordpress-plugins\/google-xml-sitemaps-generator\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Google XML Sitemaps generator<\/a> wordpress plugin was showing some <strong>write errors<\/strong> and was unable to generate an updated sitemap.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5199\" title=\"sitemap error\" alt=\"sitemap error\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sitemap-error.gif\" width=\"468\" height=\"79\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sitemaps.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Sitemaps<\/a> are crucial to let search engines index your site really well by notifying all your site urls, it needed to be fixed soon. I browsed through the support link to fix the error. They basically advised making the <strong>files writable with 755 or 777 permission<\/strong>, but since no changes were made to the file permissions at any time, they were still writable.<\/p>\n<p>Then I checked my sitemap plugin settings<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5216\" title=\"sitemap location\" alt=\"sitemap location\" src=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sitemap-location.gif\" width=\"350\" height=\"124\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sitemap-location.gif 350w, https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sitemap-location-300x106.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It is essential to have <strong>both form fields filled in<\/strong>, and it was OK, as these setting were valid for the last few years. After all attempts for support failed, I realized that maybe it was not a WP 2.7 issue at all, but maybe our hosting service Dreamhost had changed the absolute path in some way. I<strong> deleted the .funnyname<\/strong> (some random name) from the url and the plugin was functional again.<\/p>\n<p>This is a useful tip for Dreamhost users particularly. Please check your Sitemap plugin configuration page and check to see if <em>your plugin is working<\/em>. If not, then try fixing the url as advised as Dreamhost seems to have moved a few directories on the back end and it should start working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soon after upgrading to WordPress 2.7, I realized my trusted Google XML Sitemaps generator wordpress plugin was showing some write&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[49,17],"class_list":["post-5198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","tag-tutorials","tag-wordpress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quickonlinetips.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}