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 would be wise 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>Out of service</h4>
<p>It’s no longer possible to purchase tokens for the Sitemap Generator as of mid-January 2023.</p>
<p>The service is still available for all users that have already purchased a token and will be shutdown when the last issued token expires mid-January 2024.</p>
<h4>Paid plugin</h4>
<p>Please note that the Sitemap Generator plugin requires a paid token to operate. The free version is no longer offered.</p>
<h4>Video</h4>
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<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 Professional 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 Vimeo videos in video sitemaps.</li>
<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>PHP 5.3 should be compiled against a compatible cURL version in the most cases. PHP 5.4 or higher should by default provide a compatible cURL version.</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>Is the service free of charge?</h4>
<p>The Sitemap Generator Professional is a paid plugin. A free version was offered for many years, but since August 2022 only a paid version is available.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.marcobeierer.com/wordpress-plugins/sitemap-generator-professional" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap Generator Professional</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 Professional

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

WP Grim

<p>Boost SEO 🚀 with powerful XML, HTML, Image, Video & Google News sitemaps for better search engine indexing.</p>
<h3>XML Sitemaps</h3>
<p>Google XML Sitemaps Generator is a WordPress Sitemap plugin that improves your website’s SEO by creating special XML Sitemaps for Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, and Yandex to index your site faster.</p>
<p>This plugin generates detailed <strong>XML Sitemaps</strong> that include your website’s Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, and Taxonomies, enhancing your website’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score. Plugin offers following Sitemaps:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>General Sitemap</strong> – single XML Sitemap with all important links</li>
<li><strong>Google News Sitemap</strong> – optimized for fast news indexing and higher visibility</li>
<li><strong>Sitemap Index</strong> – organize multiple sitemaps in one index for better structure</li>
<li><strong>Image Sitemap</strong> – improve indexing of images, galleries, and media content</li>
<li><strong>Video Sitemap</strong> – help Google discover and rank your video content faster</li>
<li><strong>Multilingual Sitemap</strong> – fully compatible with WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress</li>
<li><strong>WooCommerce Support</strong> – includes products, categories, and tags in sitemaps</li>
<li><strong>Customizable Control</strong> – exclude specific posts, pages, or taxonomies; add custom URLs; set priority and frequency rules</li>
<li><strong>SEO-Friendly & Performance Optimized</strong> – built-in caching system, robots.txt integration, WP-CLI commands, and seamless compatibility with popular SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math, The SEO Framework)</li>
</ul>
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<h3>Sitemap Structure</h3>
<p>The plugin offers two primary XML Sitemap structures: <strong>Single Sitemap</strong> and <strong>Sitemap Index</strong>. The Single Sitemap displays all your website’s content in a single XML Sitemap, while the Sitemap Index shows multiple XML Sitemaps in a single Sitemap Index.</p>
<p><strong>Sitemap Index</strong> feature enables you to manage your sitemaps with <strong>Multiple Inner Sitemaps</strong> for various content types such as Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Images, Videos and more. This feature makes easy the management of your Sitemaps and keep them organized.</p>
<h3>Google News</h3>
<p>Make your website’s News easily discoverable by Search Engines with Google News feature. By enabling “Google News” in the settings, a dynamic <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/news-sitemap" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Sitemap</a> will be created automatically. Google News Sitemap is fully compatible with popular multilingual plugins like <strong>WPML</strong>, <strong>Polylang</strong>, and <strong>TranslatePress</strong>.</p>
<p>The Google News Sitemap includes all the required fields such as <strong>Publication Name</strong>, <strong>Language</strong>, <strong>Title</strong>, and <strong>Publication Date</strong>. Additionally, it is fully compatible with the Google Publisher Center sitemap protocol, ensuring that your website’s content is properly indexed and displayed in Google News.</p>
<h3>Image Sitemap</h3>
<p>The Dynamic Image Sitemap is a valuable tool for optimizing website indexing and search engine visibility. By including images from Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts Content, it offers a comprehensive representation of visual content on your site. Additionally, its adherence to the <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/image-sitemaps" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Image Sitemaps</a> structure ensures compatibility and optimal performance within the search engine ecosystem.</p>
<h3>Video Sitemap</h3>
<p>Video Sitemap will also be dynamically generated using collected Videos from Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts Content that contains Playlist Shortcode or  tag nd fully compatible with <a href="https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/video-sitemaps" rel="nofollow ugc">Google Video Sitemaps</a> structure. Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Duration fields will be respectively generated from Video Attachment’s Title, Featured Image, Caption, and Length.</p>
<h3>Custom Sitemap URLs</h3>
<p>Customizing your XML Sitemap is ease with Custom Sitemap URLs feature. You can add <strong>External or Internal URLs</strong> to your XML Sitemap under the Plugin Settings, making it easy to customize your XML Sitemap to fit your specific needs. Also, you can add <strong>Custom Sitemaps</strong> to the Sitemap Index, if you have Static or Additional Sitemaps.</p>
<p>In addition, Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin allows you to display a Sitemap under a <strong>Custom URL</strong> on your website, providing an additional level of customization.</p>
<h3>Sitemap Options</h3>
<p>This plugin provides you with a very simple and clean UI to set <strong>Priority</strong>, <strong>Frequency</strong> options and easily <strong>Include/Exclude</strong> Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Archives, Authors, Categories, Taxonomies and Tags into your Sitemap.</p>
<h3>Cache</h3>
<p>The WordPress XML Sitemap plugin comes equipped with a Cache feature that automatically caches Sitemap Data when a user visits the Sitemap page. This means that subsequent visits to the sitemap page will be faster as the cached data is quickly retrieved instead of generating the Sitemap from scratch.</p>
<p>Cache feature also includes options to set a <strong>Caching Timeout</strong>, view the <strong>Last Cached Time</strong>, and <strong>Clear Cache</strong> when necessary. These features help to improve the performance of your website and ensure that your Sitemap is always up-to-date for Search Engines to crawl.</p>
<p>Here is a short list of Google XML Sitemap plugin features.</p>
<p><strong>Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index 🔥</li>
<li>Custom XML Sitemap URL 🔥</li>
<li>IndexNow Protocol for indexing Microsoft Bing, Seznam.cz, Naver, and Yandex</li>
<li>Control Sitemap Options for all Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Archives, Authors, Categories, Taxonomies and Tags 🔥</li>
<li>Include/Exclude Taxonomies, Categories, Tags 🔥</li>
<li>Add Custom Sitemaps to Sitemap Index</li>
<li>Add Custom External/Internal URLs to your XML Sitemap 🔥</li>
<li>Automatically add Sitemaps to robots.txt</li>
<li>Links Per Page for Sitemap Index 🔥</li>
<li>Static Sitemap File detector</li>
<li>Toolbar with most helpful Actions & Links</li>
<li>Disables auto-generated WP Sitemaps</li>
<li>Setup Wizard 🔥</li>
<li>WP-CLI commands for Sitemap generation <strong>[NEW]</strong> 🔥</li>
<li>Multisite Network compatible</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatible</li>
<li>Multilingual Sitemap 🔥</li>
<li>WPML compatible</li>
<li>Polylang compatible</li>
<li>TranslatePress compatible</li>
<li>FooGallery compatible</li>
<li>Yoast SEO compatible with noindex</li>
<li>Rank Math SEO compatible with noindex</li>
<li>SEO Framework compatible</li>
<li>User-Friendly Interface</li>
<li>No Coding required</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Google News Features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap Tags: Publication Name, Language, Title and Publication Date</li>
<li>Custom Google News URL 🔥</li>
<li>Custom News Publication Name</li>
<li>WPML compatible</li>
<li>Polylang compatible</li>
<li>TranslatePress compatible</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Image Sitemap Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Hide Image Previews <strong>[NEW]</strong></li>
<li>Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index</li>
<li>Include Pages & Posts</li>
<li>Custom Image Sitemaps URLs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Video Sitemap Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index</li>
<li>Include Pages & Posts</li>
<li>Custom Video Sitemaps URLs</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Advanced Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Cache Sitemaps 🔥</li>
<li>Cache Expiration Time</li>
<li>Last Cached Time of Sitemaps</li>
<li>Import & Export Settings</li>
</ul>
<h3>🌟 Upgrade to Pro Version</h3>
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<p><strong>Custom Priority and Frequency for a Single Page/Post</strong></p>
<p>Customize the <strong>Priority</strong>, <strong>Frequency</strong>, and <strong>Exclude from Sitemap</strong> options for a Single Post, Page, or CPT <a href="https://wpgrim.com/google-xml-sitemaps-generator-pro/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=post-meta&utm_campaign=xml_sitemap" rel="nofollow ugc">with the Pro Version</a>.</p>
<p><strong>HTML Sitemap</strong></p>
<p>Improve your website’s navigation with HTML Sitemap feature. This feature allows you to create an HTML Sitemap that can be displayed on your website’s pages using popular Page Builder Widgets such as Elementor, Gutenberg, WPBakery, or simple Shortcode.</p>
<p>You can also customize your HTML Sitemap by choosing which Post Types to display, including Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types, through the convenient multiselect option. With this feature, you can easily enhance your website’s user experience and make it more SEO-friendly. <a href="https://wpgrim.com/google-xml-sitemaps-generator-pro/?utm_source=wordpressorg&utm_medium=html-sitemap&utm_campaign=xml_sitemap" rel="nofollow ugc">Try Pro Version</a> today!</p>
<p><strong>Premium Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Exclude Pages, Posts, Custom Posts from Sitemap</li>
<li>Exclude Categories and Tags from Sitemap 🔥</li>
<li>Include only selected Categories & Tags <strong>[NEW]</strong></li>
<li>HTML Sitemap 🔥</li>
<li>Single Post/Page Custom Sitemap Options: 🔥<br />
— Exclude from Sitemap<br />
— Post Priority<br />
— Post Frequency</li>
<li>Posts Priority Automatic Calculation:<br />
— by Number of Comments<br />
— by Average Comments Count</li>
<li>Page Builder Widgets and Shortcode for <strong>HTML Sitemap</strong>:<br />
— Elementor widget<br />
— Gutenberg block<br />
— WPBakery (Visual Composer) widget<br />
— <strong>[html-sitemap post-types=”page,post,..” ..]</strong></li>
<li>Sitemap Custom Colors <strong>[NEW]</strong> 🔥</li>
<li>No Branding Marks 🔥</li>
<li>Premium Support</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Google News Premium Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Include Custom Post Types</li>
<li>Include Taxonomies</li>
<li>Keywords 🔥</li>
<li>Stock Tickers 🔥</li>
<li>Exclude Posts and Custom Posts</li>
<li>Exclude Categories and Tags 🔥</li>
<li>Include only selected Categories & Tags <strong>[NEW]</strong></li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Image Sitemap Premium Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Image Sitemap MIME Types</li>
<li>Exclude Broken (404) Images 🔥</li>
<li>Include Featured Images</li>
<li>Include WooCommerce Gallery 🔥</li>
<li>Include Custom Post Types</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Video Sitemap Premium Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>YouTube videos 🔥</li>
<li>Vimeo videos <strong>[NEW]</strong> 🔥</li>
<li>X (Twitter) videos <strong>[NEW]</strong> 🔥</li>
<li>Include Custom Post Types</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Advanced Premium Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Smart Caching 🔥</li>
<li>Minimize Sitemap source code</li>
<li>Cron Job <strong>[NEW]</strong> 🔥</li>
</ul>
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<h3>More Powerful Plugins</h3>
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Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google

Boost SEO 🚀 with powerful XML, HTML, Image, Video & Google News sitemaps for better search engine indexing.

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