{"id":23009,"date":"2022-02-12T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/?p=23009"},"modified":"2025-07-12T19:44:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-12T14:44:43","slug":"your-sitemap-appears-to-be-anhtml-page-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/your-sitemap-appears-to-be-anhtml-page-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I face the &#8220;Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page. Please use a supported sitemap format instead&#8221;  error in my blog. I fix this easily with just a simple hack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"286\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Your-Sitemap-appears-to-be-an-HTML-page.webp\" alt=\"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page\" class=\"wp-image-23018\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bg-light\">You Might Also Like: <a href=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/free-elementor-templates\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/free-elementor-templates\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Free Elementor Templates<\/a> For WordPress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bg-blue\">Learn More About <a href=\"https:\/\/trk.elementor.com\/mcstartersblog\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/trk.elementor.com\/mcstartersblog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Elementor Page Builder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"your-sitemap-appears-to-be-an-html-page-error\">Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page error<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Please follow the steps to fix this issue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step\"><strong>Step 1: <\/strong>Go to settings &gt; Permalinks &gt;Here just click on Save Changes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"311\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/WordPress-Permalink-Settings.webp\" alt=\"WordPress Permalink Settings\" class=\"wp-image-23017\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"step\"><strong>Step 2:<\/strong> Remove the previous sitemap from the google search console and add new again. You see a success message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"699\" height=\"278\" src=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Your-Sitemap-appears-to-be-an-HTML-page-error-fix.webp\" alt=\"Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML page error fix\" class=\"wp-image-23019\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I hope you fix this issue but if you still need any help then comment below or hire an expert from the below link.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bg-blue\">You Might Also Like:  <a href=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/services\/wordpress-web-design-services\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/services\/wordpress-web-design-services\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cheap WordPress Design<\/a> services for businesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I face the &#8220;Your Sitemap appears to be an HTML&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":23417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-seo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37384,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23009\/revisions\/37384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcstarters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}