Rich Owings

The reason it didn’t work for me was that the .html files were outside of the WordPress installation.

Thanks! I just submitted a ticket.

Thanks! I will give it a try and report back.

It may be, but it still makes for a bad user experience.

Just a note… My previous sitemap was gzipped at domain.com/sitemap.xml.gz. Google wasn’t picking up the changes. I had to resubmit it as domain.com/sitemap.xml.

They are in the posts. I ended up using the Better WordPress External Links plugin to do it. Thanks for the offer of help though.

Crap, I did it and it’s only showing three files!…

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://gpstracklog.com/wp-content/plugins/bwp-google-xml-sitemaps/xsl/bwp-sitemapindex.xsl"?>

<sitemapindex xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
	http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/siteindex.xsd"
	xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">

	<sitemap>
		<loc>http://gpstracklog.com/site.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-10-31T18:34:17+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
	<sitemap>
		<loc>http://gpstracklog.com/post.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-10-31T18:32:22+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
	<sitemap>
		<loc>http://gpstracklog.com/page.xml</loc>
		<lastmod>2012-10-31T18:34:17+00:00</lastmod>
	</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

<!-- This sitemap was originally generated in 0.006 second(s) (Memory usage: 7.66 MB) - 2 queries - 3 URL(s) listed -->

Just to close the loop…

I figured out what happened. In the WP admin interface, under media, there is a section for “unattached images.” I deleted those, figuring they weren’t attached to a post, but it turns out they were! Why, I don’t know. Fortunately I keep good backups including all files from my server.