WP 5.5 was just released and contains a new core sitemaps feature. You access the sitemap from http://yoursite.com/wp-sitemap.xml With a fresh site and no other issues this works when Apache is the web server but gives a 404 if nginx is the web server.

WP 5.5 core sitemaps not working in nginx

Sridhar August 20, 2020, 2:56am 2

+1. Can confirm.

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