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Hi Johannes, thanks for sending the zip. I’ve sent an email to you after testing with different gallery blocks but in all cases the fancybox light box seems to work wihtout any modifications… I’ll need more info to be able to reproduce the issue so I hope you can tell me more via email 🙂

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 🙂

Hi Eduardo, I checked your yearly post sitemaps a few times. They are really slow and I even saw the 5OO internal server error once.

Make sure you keep your option ‘Split by’ on ‘Month’. Your monthly sitemaps load fast enough and all are correct.

However, even though the response is correct, the status code that is returned by the server is 4O4 which means “not found”. I suspect Google sees this as a problem (and it is!) so it will not treat the sitemaps further.

Do you have any idea why your server or WordPress itself would return a 404 status code for posts or feeds?

Hi Eduardo, I’ve entered both your sitemap.xml and your sitemap-posttype-post.2019.xml in the online validator tool https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html and both are valid.

Maybe the error is an old one and will disappear after a while. Or you can try removing the sitemap from your Search Console and then submit it again. Hopefully the spider will re-validate it then.

So you have only the XML Sitemap & Google News plugin activated now? And can you switch to Month or Year or does that still cause a problem?

From this topic title I understand that the error occurs during plugin installation. Is that the case? Is that the Google News Advanced extension plugin or the main XML Sitemap & Google News plugin? And is that when installing or when activating?

To get the popup to show on the top left will take more that some custom CSS or alternative image. The script was designed to seek the center so our only option would be to make the popup as large as possible and then have the form align top left of its content.

Go to Settings > Media and find the section Window. There, under Dimensions, set both “Width” and “Height” to 100% and test your popup again…