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Large sites get unsplit or failing sitemaps

Sitemaps on sites with 400 to 17,000 or more posts are not split into pages, and generation fails with server errors.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

3 public reports · first reported 18 March 2024 · last reported 30 September 2024

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Owners of larger WordPress sites say the sitemap puts all posts on one page instead of splitting them into chunks, or that generation returns error 500 even after they split sitemaps and excluded taxonomies.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 3 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.