My Sitemap showing Blank why?

Hello,

We apologize for the issue you are facing with your sitemap showing as blank. This can happen for a few reasons:

1. Plugin or Theme Conflict: If the source code of the sitemap page is empty, there may be a conflict with another plugin or theme. You can use the Health Check plugin to identify which plugin or theme is causing the issue.

2. Caching Issues: If your sitemap is cached improperly, it may show as empty. We recommend flushing the sitemaps cache and ensuring that your sitemap is excluded from caching. You can find more information on how to do this in our guide on excluding sitemaps from caching.

3. Static File Conflict: Sometimes, a static file with the same name as your sitemap file (like _sitemapindex.xml) can cause issues. You should check your server via FTP and remove any such files if they exist.

If you could provide the URL of your site, we can assist you further in diagnosing the issue. Please reply to this ticket with that information, and a human agent will take over and help resolve your issue.

Thank you for raising this concern!

Hello,

Apologies for the delay as we prioritize older tickets, and whenever you post a reply, your ticket gets bumped to the top.

However, your sitemap is returning a 404 error.

In this case, please follow these steps to flush your sitemap cache:

1. Flush the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast:
https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

2. Exclude the Sitemap files of the Rank Math plugin in your caching plugin. The cache could be via a plugin or from the server. For plugins or Cloudflare, please follow this article:
https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitemaps-from-caching/

3. Disable the transient cache for the sitemap by applying this filter. This will make sure that your XML sitemap always reflects the latest changes on your site:

/** 
 * Filter if XML sitemap transient cache is enabled.
 *
 * @param boolean $unsigned Enable cache or not, defaults to true
 */
add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false');

If you’re not sure how to add this code, you can follow this guide:
https://rankmath.com/kb/wordpress-hooks-actions-filters/

Looking forward to helping you.

Hello,

This sitemap error indicates that there must be some white space before the XML Sitemap’s source code. You can also look at the source code of Sitemap and see if there is any extra line or space before the XML. This is caused by a blank line or space in your wp-config.php or functions.php file.

If you’re not able to find any white space then you can try to follow this guideline to fix the issue: https://wejn.org/stuff/wejnswpwhitespacefix.php.html

Once done, please try to clear the Sitemap cache by following this video screencast and see if that works for you: https://i.rankmath.com/pipRDp

However, if you are unable to do this or if the fix does not work, please include your FTP details in the sensitive data section so we can fix this for you.

We look forward to helping you.

Thank you.