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<p>The light-weight XML Sitemaps Manager allows you to de/activate WordPress core XML sitemaps, change the maximum number of URLs per sitemap and add Last Modified dates.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Options to disable the complete sitemap index or exclude certain post type sitemaps, taxonomy sitemaps or the user sitemap.</li>
<li>Change the maximum number of URLs in the sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add <strong>Last Modified</strong> dates to posts, terms, users and the first sitemap of each type in the index.</li>
<li>Conditional <strong>is_sitemap()</strong>, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51543" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>, and <strong>is_sitemap_stylesheet()</strong> for good measure.</li>
<li>Polylang compatible.</li>
<li>Multisite compatible: Can be network activated. On uninstallation, all sub-site options will be cleared from the database as long as not is_large_network().</li>
<li>Additional fixes and improvents to the core XML Sitemap.</li>
</ul>
<p>Fixes some core XML Sitemap bugs:<br />
– Blog page lastmod in WP 6.5 (use last post date instead of last modified date)<br />
– 404 Response code on certain sitemaps, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51912" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>.<br />
– Don’t set is_home() true, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51542" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>.<br />
– Don’t execute main query, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51117" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>.<br />
– Ignore stickyness in WP 6.0 and below, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55633" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a> (fixed in WP 6.1).</p>
<p>Improves core XML Sitemap performance by reducing the number of database queries for:<br />
– the sitemap index by 5;<br />
– each post type sitemap by 4;<br />
– each taxonomy sitemap by the number of terms in that sitemap, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55239" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a> (fixed in WP 6.0);<br />
– each user sitemap by the number of users in that sitemap.</p>
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
<p>This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.</p>
<p>There is no data published that was not already public. There is no data actively transmitted to search engines or other third parties.</p>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemaps-manager/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemaps-manager" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.</p>
<p>If you wish to help improve this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemaps-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemaps-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>Credits to all users actively discussing and contributing code to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=Sitemaps&order=priority" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap component bugs</a>, explicitly to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51912#comment:9" rel="nofollow ugc">@Tkama</a> for suggesting to render the sitemaps at the parse_request action hook.</p>


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