David Daniel

<p>Full documentation is available at https://crucibleinsight.com/docs/.</p>
<p>Developer Sitemap provides a lightweight, standards-compliant XML sitemap solution for WordPress. Unlike full SEO suites, this plugin focuses solely on sitemap generation with a clean, intuitive interface.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Standards-Compliant XML</strong> – Generates valid XML sitemaps conforming to the sitemaps.org protocol</li>
<li><strong>Sitemap Index</strong> – Automatically creates a sitemap index linking to content-specific sitemaps</li>
<li><strong>Content Type Support</strong> – Include posts, pages, WooCommerce products, taxonomies, and author archives</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Integration</strong> – Automatic product sitemap generation when WooCommerce is active</li>
<li><strong>Human-Readable Display</strong> – Styled XML output for easy viewing in browsers (does not affect SEO)</li>
<li><strong>Configurable Priority & Change Frequency</strong> – Set default values for each content type</li>
<li><strong>Exclusion Rules</strong> – Exclude specific posts, pages, products, or terms using visual selectors</li>
<li><strong>Caching</strong> – Built-in caching for optimal performance</li>
<li><strong>GZIP Compression</strong> – Optional compression for faster delivery</li>
<li><strong>Modern Admin UI</strong> – Clean dashboard with status overview and quick actions</li>
</ul>
<h4>WooCommerce Support</h4>
<p>When WooCommerce is installed and activated, Developer Sitemap automatically detects it and provides:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Products checkbox</strong> in Content Types settings</li>
<li><strong>Product Priority</strong> setting to control search engine crawl priority</li>
<li><strong>Separate product sitemap</strong> at <code>/sitemap-product.xml</code></li>
<li><strong>Hidden product filtering</strong> – Products with “hidden” catalog visibility are automatically excluded</li>
<li><strong>Product exclusions</strong> – Exclude specific products using the visual post selector</li>
</ul>
<h4>Why Developer Sitemap?</h4>
<ul>
<li><strong>Lightweight</strong> – No bloat, just sitemaps</li>
<li><strong>Privacy-Focused</strong> – No external tracking or analytics</li>
<li><strong>Compatible</strong> – Works alongside WordPress core sitemaps</li>
<li><strong>Developer-Friendly</strong> – Extensive hooks for customization</li>
<li><strong>Hosting-Safe</strong> – Designed for shared hosting environments</li>
</ul>
<h4>Sitemap URLs</h4>
<p>Once activated, your sitemap is available at:</p>
<ul>
<li>Main Index: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap.xml</code></li>
<li>Posts: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap-post.xml</code></li>
<li>Pages: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap-page.xml</code></li>
<li>Products: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap-product.xml</code> (when WooCommerce is active)</li>
<li>Taxonomies: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap-taxonomy.xml</code></li>
<li>Authors: <code>yoursite.com/sitemap-author.xml</code></li>
</ul>
<h4>Documentation</h4>
<p>For detailed documentation, visit the https://crucibleinsight.com/docs/</p>
<h3>Developer Documentation</h3>
<h4>Filters</h4>
<p><strong>developer_sitemap_url_providers</strong><br />
Modify the registered URL providers.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('developer_sitemap_url_providers', function($providers) {
    // Add custom provider
    $providers['custom'] = new MyCustomProvider();
    return $providers;
});
</code></pre>
<p><strong>developer_sitemap_urls</strong><br />
Filter URLs before they are included in a sitemap.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('developer_sitemap_urls', function($urls, $type) {
    // Filter or modify URLs
    return $urls;
}, 10, 2);
</code></pre>
<p><strong>developer_sitemap_entry_attributes</strong><br />
Modify sitemap entry attributes.</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('developer_sitemap_entry_attributes', function($attrs, $url) {
    // Modify priority, changefreq, etc.
    return $attrs;
}, 10, 2);
</code></pre>
<h4>Actions</h4>
<p><strong>developer_sitemap_generated</strong><br />
Fires after a sitemap is generated.</p>
<p><strong>developer_sitemap_cache_invalidated</strong><br />
Fires after the sitemap cache is cleared.</p>
<h3>Privacy Policy</h3>
<p>Developer Sitemap does not collect, store, or transmit any personal data. The plugin generates XML files containing public URLs from your WordPress site.</p>


Developer Sitemap

Lightweight XML sitemaps for posts, pages, products, taxonomies, and authors. Configurable priorities and visual exclusions.

Marco Beierer

<p>The <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/wordpress-plugins/sitemap-generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator</a> uses an external service to crawl your website and create a XML sitemap of your website. The generator works thus for every plugin out of the box. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of your site once.</p>
<p>If you host your website on a dedicated server, you may not need this plugin, because you should have enough resources to generate your sitemap on your server. But if you host your website in a shared environment (as the most WordPress users do), it could be a good idea to outsource the generation of your sitemap to an external service like this plugin uses to generate the sitemap. This way it is guaranteed that the speed of your website is not affected for your visitors during the generation of the sitemap.</p>
<h4>Limitations of the free version</h4>
<p>The base version of the Sitemap Generator is free but limited. You can create sitemaps for websites with up to 500 URLs. Advanced features like image or video support aren’t available in the free version.</p>
<p>The service cannot be offered free of charge for larger websites because the crawling is done by servers operated by the plugin developer and renting and maintaining these servers isn’t cheap.</p>
<h4>Video</h4>
<span class="embed-youtube" style="text-align:center; display: block;"><iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/odTnCazabSE?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe></span>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Simple setup.</li>
<li>Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins.</li>
<li>Low computation costs for your webserver.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive).
<ul>
<li>You could use the user-agent MB-SiteCrawler to control the crawler.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Support for robots (noindex) meta elements.</li>
<li>Adds nearly all indexable filetypes (for example .pdf, .xls, .doc) to the sitemap.
<ul>
<li>See the document <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator/data" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Data</a> on my website for more information.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Additional Technical Features of the Pro Version</h4>
<ul>
<li>Generation of image sitemaps.</li>
<li>Generation of video sitemaps.
<ul>
<li>Currently HTML5 video elements and embedded YouTube videos are supported.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h4>Upcoming Technical Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Support for HTML5 picture elements in image sitemaps.</li>
<li>Automatic daily creation of sitemaps.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Technical Requirements</h4>
<ul>
<li>cURL 7.18.1 or higher.
<ul>
<li>Current PHP versions supported by WordPress should provide a compatible cURL version in most hosting environments.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>OpenSSL 0.9.8f or higher.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Data Aggregation and Indexable File Types</h4>
<p>I have published a detailed document about how the Sitemap Generator aggregates the data for the generation of sitemaps and which file types are getting indexed on my website.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator/data" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Data</a></p>
<h4>Warnings</h4>
<p>If you already have an existing sitemap.xml in your WordPress root directory, this file would be overwritten. It is thus recommended to backup your existing sitemap.xml file before using the Sitemap Generator. I also have not tested the generator on Windows webspace. You should also access the sitemap.xml after the generation finished and check if everything is fine.</p>
<h4>Pre-Installation Verification Test</h4>
<p>If you like to test if the Sitemap Generator works fine with your website before you will install the plugin, you could use the <a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/tools/sitemap-generator#generator" rel="nofollow ugc">Online Sitemap Generator</a> on my website, which uses to same technology as the plugin to generate the sitemaps.</p>
<h4>Use of an External Server</h4>
<p>The Sitemap Generator uses an external server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links. This means, that there is some communication between your website and the server. The only data that is communicated to the external server by your website is the URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress. The server than crawlers your website (as a normal visitor does) and answers with the generated sitemap.</p>


Sitemap Generator

An easy to use XML sitemap generator with support for image and video sitemaps for WordPress.

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