Im having trouble with my sitemap

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Wasn't sure where to post this but sitemaps have something to do with SEO so thought here might work.

I haven't created a new website in over a year so Im rusty with this process. Anyways, I just got the Google XML sitemap plugin for wordpress, made a sitemap then went to google webmaster tools to add it. I verified my site but when I added site map I got an error. It says

"Paths don't match
We've detected that you submitted your Sitemap using a URL path that includes the www prefix (for instance, http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml). However, the URLs listed inside your Sitemap don't use the www prefix (for instance, http://example.com/myfile.htm)."

When it says add site map, it doesn't allow you to drop the www though. It only lets you add the directory your sitemap.xml is in. So I went back to my xml sitemap plug in and changed it so it would have www in front of each url but that still didn't work.

Then I went into webmaster tools and tried to changed my preference of urls to be without www but it says I have to verify my site before this is allowed...which it says its verified.

Any help on what I need to do to get this sitemap uploaded? Its pissing me off! Never had any problem on other sites before and I have done exact same steps.
#sitemap #trouble

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