Reply To: Fatal error to install XML Sitemap plugin

[Rolf]

Or, if you are not afraid of modifying PHP files, you can try this:

1. Go to Plugins > Plugin Editor and select XML Sitemap & Google News on the top right.
2. Open >models in files list on the right en choose the file functions.public-shared.php
3. There you will see the first function:

function xmlsf_headers( $headers ) {
	// set noindex
	$headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noindex, follow';
	$headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml; charset=' . get_bloginfo('charset');
	return $headers;
}

Now add a new line right after function xmlsf_headers( $headers ) { and enter $headers['Status'] = '200'; there. It should look like:

function xmlsf_headers( $headers ) {
	$headers['Status'] = '200';
	// set noindex
	$headers['X-Robots-Tag'] = 'noindex, follow';
	$headers['Content-Type'] = 'text/xml; charset=' . get_bloginfo('charset');
	return $headers;
}

Then click the button Update File at the bottom.

Let me know and I’ll check the response status of your sitemaps again 🙂