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CSPG Basic SEO Helper is a lightweight, performance-focused WordPress SEO plugin designed to simplify essential on-page SEO and social sharing optimization without unnecessary complexity.
The plugin automatically generates: 
– Open Graph meta tags for Facebook and social platforms 
– Twitter Card metadata 
– Schema.org structured data 
– Dynamic SEO titles and descriptions using configurable templates 
– XML sitemaps for improved search engine indexing
All features are built to work automatically out of the box while still giving administrators full control through clean, easy-to-use settings pages.
Perfect for small businesses, bloggers, and developers who want modern SEO fundamentals without bloated overhead.
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatic Open Graph meta tags</li>
<li>Built-in Twitter Card support</li>
<li>Schema.org structured data output</li>
<li>Dynamic Meta Templates for SEO titles and descriptions</li>
<li>10+ dynamic variables including <code>{site_name}</code>, <code>{post_title}</code>, <code>{excerpt}</code>, and more</li>
<li>Custom field variables using <code>{custom_field:key}</code></li>
<li>Live SEO template preview in the admin panel</li>
<li>Free XML Sitemap generation</li>
<li>Improved sitemap performance and reliability</li>
<li>Clean, user-friendly admin interface</li>
<li>Improved admin UI consistency</li>
<li>Optimized for performance and stability</li>
<li>Compatible with modern WordPress versions (6.4+)</li>
</ul>

CSPG Basic SEO Helper

Lightweight SEO helper adding Open Graph, Twitter Cards, Schema.org markup, meta templates, and XML sitemaps.

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Martin Stehle

Since WordPress 5.5, an XML sitemaps functionality is provided in the WordPress core. These sitemaps let search engine crawlers find all URLs quickly and comprehensively.
But there is not any configuration interface. This plugin provides an option page for all XML sitemaps generated by the WordPress core.
WP Sitemaps Config let you easily
<ul>
<li>disable the XML sitemaps completely with a single click</li>
<li>remove the sitemaps for all public posts, pages, categories, tags, post formats and users </li>
<li>remove the sitemaps for all public custom post types and custom taxonomies</li>
<li>add the entries Priority, Change Frequency and Last Modification Date to each URL</li>
<li>exclude single posts and pages from the XML sitemaps</li>
<li>set the priority and change frequency for each post and page manually</li>
</ul>
This plugin is ready for multi sites. It requires WordPress 5.5 or higher. To use the XML sitemaps the PHP extension SimpleXML must run on your server.
<h4>Demo</h4>
You want to test WP Sitemaps Config before installing on your site? Try it out on your free WordPress playground and <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-sitemaps-config/?preview=1" rel="ugc">click here</a>.
Read also more on <a href="https://ays-pro.com/blog/best-sitemap-plugins-for-wordpress-in-2023" rel="nofollow ugc">Best Sitemap Plugins for WordPress in 2023</a>

WP Sitemaps Config


As many already have written here: This is the badly missing user interface for the sitemap feature in Core.



Sometimes a custom post type or taxonomy is badly registered and has a sitemap, although there is no public facing page available or WP core is generating an author sitemap by default ...



With this plugin, you can disable those unwanted sitemaps with one simple checkbox.



Additionally, you can enable the last modification date/time which is highly recommended (because crawler now can better plan their work). There is a ticket milestoned for WordPress 6.3 which is discussing this to be part of the core sitemap.



And it seems there is a feature planned for custom additions to "priority" and "change frequency". 



This would be worth a sixth star ;)


The missing UI

Configure all XML sitemaps generated by the WordPress core with ease

CSPG Basic SEO Helper vs WP Sitemaps Config