michaelgrover

Sitemap Manager gives you full control over your WordPress XML sitemap. Easily exclude thank-you pages, landing pages, or other URLs you don’t want indexed.
Works with Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and the native WordPress sitemap.
Highlights 
– See your sitemap in a readable table. 
– Exclude any post, page, or custom post type. 
– Compatible with major SEO plugins and core sitemaps. 
– No impact on content—just the sitemap.
Perfect for advanced SEO, content strategy, and hybrid sites.

Sitemap Manager

Take control of your XML sitemap. Exclude URLs you don’t want indexed. Works with Yoast, Rank Math, AIOSEO, and core sitemaps.

andreyberestov

Lightweight Sitemap Generator is a minimal yet powerful 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> with proper <code><loc></code> and <code><lastmod></code> tags (ISO-8601 UTC format)</li>
<li>Unified structure for posts, pages, products, and 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>Two independent generation engines — optimized for both regular and ultra-large sites</li>
<li>Detects potential conflicts with other sitemap providers and SEO plugins</li>
<li>Shows last generation time (UTC or site timezone)</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 — lightweight and self-contained</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
Created by Andrey Berestov

Lightweight Sitemap Generator

Lightweight XML sitemap generator: file or dynamic mode; supports pages, posts, taxonomies, archives, WooCommerce, DW Q&A.

Sitemap Manager vs Lightweight Sitemap Generator