andreyberestov

Lightweight Sitemap Generator is a minimal WordPress plugin that creates a valid XML sitemap for search engines (Google, Yandex and others), fully compliant with <a href="https://www.sitemaps.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">sitemaps.org</a>.
Main features:
<ul>
<li>Generates a valid <code>sitemap.xml</code> (or wp-sitemap.xml) with proper <code><loc></code> and <code><lastmod></code> tags (ISO-8601 UTC format)</li>
<li>Unified structure for posts, pages, products, built-in taxonomies, and detected public third-party taxonomies</li>
<li>Global chronological order (newer → older)</li>
<li>Automatic duplicate prevention across all sources</li>
<li>Two modes:
<ul>
<li>File mode — creates a static sitemap in the site root (minimal server load)</li>
<li>Dynamic mode — builds sitemap on-the-fly (always up to date, cached with TTL)</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Clean and minimal settings page in WP Admin:
<ul>
<li>Enable or disable posts, pages, categories, tags, authors, archives</li>
<li>Supports WooCommerce products, DW Q&A, and all detected custom post types/taxonomies</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Homepage is always included automatically</li>
<li>Flexible <code><lastmod></code> for homepage:
<ul>
<li>Smart — based on the most recently updated content</li>
<li>Conservative — static front-page date</li>
<li>Fast — current time on each generation</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Optional sitemap splitting (up to 50 000 URLs per part) with automatic sitemap index</li>
<li>Google News: Optional separate <code>news-sitemap.xml</code> for Google News with 48-hour news window and 1,000 URLs per file</li>
<li>Two independent generation engines — optimized for both regular and ultra-large sites</li>
<li>Safe caching with TTL and diagnostic comments (HIT / MISS / timing)</li>
<li>HTTP header support:
<ul>
<li>Sends correct Content-Type, Last-Modified, Cache-Control, and ETag headers</li>
<li>Optional X-Robots-Tag: noindex, follow header for sitemap requests</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Security and reliability:
<ul>
<li>Capability checks and nonce validation</li>
<li>Strict sanitization and option whitelisting</li>
<li>File operations via <code>WP_Filesystem</code> (with safe fallback)</li>
<li>No external requests</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Created by Andrey Berestov

Lightweight Sitemap Generator

XML sitemap generator for WordPress with file or dynamic mode. Supports all public post types and taxonomies. Optional Google News sitemap.

Whodunit

Jb Audras

Simple Site Map Page can be used to build a HTML site map page easily and manually.
It uses WordPress native menus manager so you can customize your site map yourself, and it’s translation ready (Polylang, WPML and others).
Native WP menu manager is good to choose exactly what must be displayed or not in the site map, e.g if you want to prevent visitors to access private parts of your website.
If you use custom links with <code>#</code> target, ce plugin will automatically remove the link and replace it with a <code></code> element. It can be usefull to create unlinked virtual pages to structure your sitemap.
Credits :
<ul>
<li><a href="http://jeanbaptisteaudras.com/" title="Jean-Baptiste Audras" rel="nofollow ugc">Jean-Baptiste Audras</a>, project manager at <a href="http://www.whodunit.fr/" title="Whodunit WordPress Agency" rel="nofollow ugc">Whodunit</a> and WordPress developer. @audrasjb on <a href="https://twitter.com/audrasjb" title="@audrasjb on Twitter" rel="nofollow ugc">Twitter</a> or <a href="https://github.com/audrasjb" title="@audrasjb on Github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</li>
</ul>
Add your own language pack on GlotPress or do pull requests on <a href="https://github.com/audrasjb" title="Plugin repo on Github" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>. Contributors will be credited here 🙂

Simple Site Map Page

All my websites have a link to a sitemap in the footer for a better user experience. This plugin makes it very easy to create the content for that sitemap page.

Add a sitemap with just a few clicks

Build your HTML site map page easily and manually with WordPress native menus.

Lightweight Sitemap Generator vs Simple Site Map Page