Urgent: Sitemap showing Blog page. Auto redirecting from sitemap.xml to wp-site-

Hello Artem,

It looks like my messages with screenshots have been ignored , completely. Would have appreciated, if you could have atleast gone through them.

Also, I have already shared credentials, if you would have checked with those, then you would have find, that I am Not using any 3rd Party plugin, so far.

Please note, I am not blaming anybody or the theme, in either case, Simply looking for a solution.
As this is critically affecting with Search Engines, and as can be seen from Google Search Console (GSC – screenshots shared above)

The only thing, that I wanted to know-

2.a. Is why the Sitemap link (wp-sitemap.xml) is redirected to and showing a Blog page of Woodmart. From where, this thing is being controlled and how.
Instead of actual Sitemap.

WordPress itself has default functionality to show Sitemaps, since their 5.5 version onwards.
Should not it show the same default Sitemap (like below) with URL links of each post, page, product, term and so on.. Just like it tends to show normally with WordPress default sitemaps

https://i2.paste.pics/FBYA8.png

2.b. And so, how to make the current Sitemap page or URL, so as not to show the Blog page, but to show the actual sitemap (with URLs)

Please resolve

Regards

Hello Artem,

2.a It does not need to be configured (normally, by default), and should work, in either case (even if not using any Plugin too), by simply adding the wp-sitemap.xml at the end of the domain name.

From WordPress 5.5, they released a basic XML sitemap feature. And hence, the XML sitemap feature was added to WordPress by default.

https://i2.paste.pics/FC1F1.png
URL for reference –
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/what-is-a-wordpress-sitemap-how-to-create-a-sitemap-in-wordpress/

Should not, atleast the basic Sitemap works, irrespective of theme. Just Wondering, why the Sitemap link (wp-sitemap.xml) is redirected to and showing a Blog page of Woodmart.

Please fix this and resolve.

Regards

Hello Artem,

It was definitely related to Woodmart or during after its Activation only.
Below video shows up that the moment we switched to 20-21 default theme, Sitemaps automatically restored back and correctly showing up the basic Sitemap page.

https://bit.ly/3e46avj

Not sure, why you kept ignoring about this thing. Now that it is clear from the above video, can you please ask the concern team to look into this further so as to get it resolved permanently.
Due to this sudden change, we never realized that Google stopped looking on further pages and was not reacting to the previous sitemap, that we had already submitted on 4th Nov 21

It is only when we realized, by trying to check the Google Search Console, and other things including sitemap (that was already submitted)

Point is – Should not, atleast the basic Sitemap works, irrespective of theme. Just Wondering, why the Sitemap link (wp-sitemap.xml) is redirected to and showing a Blog page.

And as I wrote earlier also –

It does not need to be configured (normally, by default), and should work, in either case (even if not using any Plugin too), by simply adding the wp-sitemap.xml at the end of the domain name.

From WordPress 5.5, they released a basic XML sitemap feature. And hence, the XML sitemap feature was added to WordPress by default.
https://i2.paste.pics/FC1F1.png

Please understand – Not everybody (every New user of Woodmart), will begin to realize it timely, and this may seriously impact on their search results, SEO and with Google Search Console.

PS: Probably this might be happening during very first installation or Activation only. And as almost everybody is using some sort of SEO lugin, hence they might not be facing this issue. And might not have reported to you or team, so far. As the sitemaps have been handled by those plugins.

PS 2: Just found that, Now after, switching back to Woodmart Child theme (from default 20-21), the sitemaps kept in restored state and are now working correctly, as well. I just switched from WM child to 20-21, then switched back again to Woodmart Child (WM)

Kind Request:
In either case, would highly appreciate, if you could please take a further look into this and have this resolved. Or forward to the concern team, so that other users or new customers won’t face such issues, specially when not using any SEO plugin. OR don’t notice it or get attentive into it (without SEO plugin)

Regards

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Hello Artem,

This is what I have already mentioned and explained, as well.
If at all, you ever wanted to look earlier into the issue, you could have done that earlier.

But it looks like you wanted to ignore your customer issues and requests.

Could you please clarify if there is something still not working as expected with our theme only?

What more clarification you need.
It is very much clear from my above detailed messages, that it was caused due to Woodmart Activation. Atleast during activation for the very 1st time.

I can see, that you people kept saying to check with Default theme. And when we found that it is working with Default theme (or Storefront), then also you don’t accept and work on the informed issues.

It looks like you believe in choosing to Deny and ignore the concerns.

Regards

Hello Artem,

OK. I can understand.
Thanks for clarifying and showing positive approach towards.

Will let you know, if it appears again or some other issue.

Regards