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A missing feature from Yoast SEO plugin. This is a very important SEO step to add your sitemap to the robots.txt, as a lot of bots (Google also) automatically search for sitemaps in the robots.txt file.
If you don’t have a separate robots.txt file on the server, than WordPress automatically generates a virtual robots.txt file with the necessary directives.
This plugin will add the Yoast SEO plugin’s XML Sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt file, so search bots will find your sitemap and can crawl your site easily.
Multisite Network installs
This plugin is also working on Multisite installs, adding the right sitemap for all your subsites. The plugin checks, if Yoast SEO plugin is activated and if the XML Sitemap is enabled on the sites, so it will add the sitemap URL only, if the sitemap exists.
Do you want to contribute or help improving this plugin?
You can find it on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/Surbma/surbma-yoast-seo-sitemap-to-robotstxt" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/Surbma/surbma-yoast-seo-sitemap-to-robotstxt</a>
You can find my other plugins and projects on GitHub:
<a href="https://github.com/Surbma" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/Surbma</a>
Please feel free to contribute, help or recommend any new features for my plugins, themes and other projects.
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Surbma | Yoast SEO Sitemap to robots.txt

Adds Yoast SEO generated XML Sitemap to the virtual robots.txt file.

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If you use WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin as your main SEO plugin, you may have noticed they don’t have a HTML sitemap feature. This plugin is the answer to that problem.
<h4>Features Include</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatically uses all sitemap xml settings from the popular WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin</li>
<li>Choose how many columns you want to display</li>
<li>Columns have a masonry effect and is compatible with all modern browsers</li>
<li>Overwrite, prepend, append, and shortcode options for placement on your sitemap page</li>
<li>Fully responsive HTML to all devices</li>
<li>Output is multilingual friendly</li>
<li>HTML code has passed W3C Markup Validation with 0 errors</li>
<li>Ability to disable the plugin’s CSS</li>
<li>Optional link to your sitemap_index.xml file</li>
</ul>
<iframe loading="lazy" class="youtube-player" width="750" height="422" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hi5DGOu1uA0?version=3&rel=1&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&fs=1&hl=en-US&autohide=2&wmode=transparent" allowfullscreen="true" style="border:0;" sandbox="allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox"></iframe>
<h4>Matt Cutts on HTML Sitemaps</h4>
When Matt Cutts (Head of Google’s Webspam Team) was asked, what is more important: “A XML sitemap or an HTML sitemap?” <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi5DGOu1uA0" rel="nofollow ugc">YouTube Webmaster Tools Video</a> Matt answered a HTML sitemap. HTML sitemaps help both users and search engine crawlers. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5LIlkhxl2s" rel="nofollow ugc">“It is always useful to have a HTML sitemap…”</a>.
Want to see the plugin in action? <a href="https://riseofweb.com/sitemap/" rel="nofollow ugc">Live HTML Sitemap Example</a>.
Note: The <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/" rel="ugc">WordPress SEO by Yoast plugin</a> is NOT required in order to use this plugin. But this plugin does take full advantage of all settings related to the XML sitemap settings.
<h4>Known oversights:</h4>
<ul>
<li>Author Roles filtering, I do not have it setup to be able to filter out author roles.</li>
<li>The posts are sorted by name and may not show if a specific Category is selected to not show in the sitemap XML settings in Yoast.</li>
</ul>

WP SEO HTML Sitemap

Really useful plugin, and the CSS bundled with it does not override your basic styling (like so many other plugins do!)



Works well even with a large amount of content

A responsive HTML sitemap that uses all of the settings for your XML sitemap in the WordPress SEO by Yoast Plugin.

Surbma | Yoast SEO Sitemap to robots.txt vs WP SEO HTML Sitemap