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.

Tony Archambeau

An easy way to add a sitemap on one of your pages becomes reality thanks to this WordPress plugin. Just use the shortcode [wp_sitemap_page] on any of your pages. This will automatically generate a sitemap of all your pages and posts.
Be carefull, this plugin do not generate an XML sitemap. It only allow you to list all your pages and posts on a single page. This is a sitemap for human not for search engines bots.
<h4>Why this plugin is useful?</h4>
Such a sitemap is useful for many reasons:
<ul>
<li>Easy navigation for the users. They can find easily pages or previous posts</li>
<li>Improve the SEO of a website</li>
</ul>
<h4>Current features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Display all pages, posts and categories</li>
<li>Display the Custom Post Type (such as: “event”, “book” …)</li>
<li>Display the taxonomies</li>
<li>Display only one kind of content using the attribute “only”, like <code>[wp_sitemap_page only="page"]</code></li>
<li>Easy to use</li>
<li>Possibility to customize the way it will be displayed through the admin panel</li>
<li>Possibility to exclude some pages or some Custom Post Type (CPT)</li>
<li>Posts and categories displayed hierarchically</li>
<li>Has CSS class to customize it if you want</li>
<li>Available in multi-languages (cf. English, French, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Czech, Persian …). You can add your own translation if you want</li>
</ul>
Want a WordPress developer? Want to add a translation? Feel free to <a href="http://en.tonyarchambeau.com/contact.html" rel="nofollow ugc">contact me</a>.
<h3>How to uninstall WP Sitemap Page</h3>
To uninstall WP Sitemap Page, you just have to de-activate the plugin from the plugins list.

WP Sitemap Page

Plugin is simple, efficient and has configurable output via shortcodes.

Simple and configurable output


This plugin should be used in all website.



Maybe you should create a block  to be better integrated in the block editor.


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Add a sitemap on any of your page using the simple shortcode [wp_sitemap_page]. Improve the SEO and navigation of your website.

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