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.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

<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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