Ankit Gupta

<p>WP Grande Plugin is a versatile WordPress plugin that allows you to change or hide a number of options like administration menu, submenu, ‘Dashboard’, with forwarding to the Manage page. On top of that, you can also perform changes to WordPress login page like change in logo or hyperlink in login page of your site. This plugin also facilitates you to hide post Meta controls on the Write page and other areas in the wordpress admin area and Write page, so as to simplify the editing interface.</p>
<h4>A Vast Range of Customization Offer</h4>
<p>You can change (hide or customize) your Dashboard Settings, Admin Bar, Admin Footer items, Login Page, Admin Menu items, Screen Options Metabox items through this plugin.</p>
<h4>Easy Search Engine Optimization</h4>
<p>Additionally, this plugin is perfect and completes your basic SEO needs like addition of meta script of different search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo etc for Webmaster tools and Analytics, also provides the facility of xml sitemap Generation, Social Media Buttons and alot more.</p>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
<p>WordPress version 3.3.2 and later</p>
<h4>What does this plugin do?</h4>
<p>The plugin changes the administration backend and gives you the power to assign rights on a wide range of options. Admins can activate/deactivate each part of the admin menu and even the submenus. Dashboard items can be hidden or changed as per the user’s requirements. WordPress login page can also be modified with this very plugin. User can change logo image, hyperlink from the login page. This plugin is able to customize Screen Options metaboxes and many similar items from menus and submenus. Admin bar also can be hide/show to get much space and simplify your workspace.<br />
Another functionality of this plugin is to do all search engine optimization tasks like services of Webmaster tools and analytics of various popular search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. This plugin can add all selected social networking sites link to the page, more than that it creates and add XML sitemap to your site.</p>
<h4>Details</h4>
<ol>
<li>Visit to Dashboard Page section to hide/show Dashboard heading icon, text, logo, Content logo.  </li>
<li>User can make changes in dashboard welcome panel heading and description.</li>
<li>At the same time it can hide/show all boxes, widgets like recent comments, incoming links, pulgins, quickpress, recent drafts, wordpress blog, wordpress news, etc.</li>
<li>In Admin Bar section it can be used to hide/show upper admin bar along with wordpress logo, screen options, and help menu. </li>
<li>The Login Page section facilitates to change initial login page items</li>
<li>It can change the WordPress logo and upload your custom image which will show up at your site’s login page.</li>
<li>It can change the hyperlink and customize it with any other link of your choice at login page logo area.</li>
<li>Login Logo can be hidden if it is not necessary to show.</li>
<li>Change and hide footer content from site page and version detail through Admin footer section.</li>
<li>In admin menu section, it can rename or remove all menu items like dashboard, posts, media, links, pages, comments, etc. </li>
<li>Metaboxes section facilitates you to customize post and pages screen option items like excerpt, Discussion, comments, slug, custom field, categories, author, publish, featured image, format etc. </li>
<li>Removing these items will simplify the page outlook and provide the desired workspace within the add/edit pages.</li>
<li>This plugin provides the basic functions of adding up different webmasters tools codes to your website.</li>
<li>It can be add and remove various social media buttons like twitter, facebook, google plus, linkedin, delicious, reddit, etc.</li>
<li>These buttons can also show up the numbers of visitors who liked/tweet/plused your page or shared it.</li>
<li>It can be specified on which pages the social media buttons are to be shown, such as home, about page, contact page, hello world post, category pages, archives, etc.</li>
<li>Meta codes can be added of google webmaster, bing, yahoo site explorer, Alexa bank, blog catalog, facebook insight to your page’s head section</li>
<li>Analytics parameters can be added through this plugin like google analytics, quantcast analytics, clicky, compete, and site meter to your site </li>
<li>Analytics will assist you to watch the analysis of visitors like visitor place, keyword, traffic stats, etc.</li>
<li>XML sitemap generator enables you to generate the sitemap of your site with a click of a button.</li>
<li>You have the power to set sitemap content, change frequency, and priority of each page in custom way.</li>
<li>Also, users can view the generated sitemap in XML file format with last modified field, and many more.</li>
<li>SEO Link Manager allows you to have internal links for better search engine optimization.</li>
<li>SEO Image Optimizer ensures you get the best from search engines for your images by appending post title to image title and alt tag.</li>
<li>Add a contact form simply by using the shortcode [ContactForm] </li>
</ol>
<p>More features coming up..</p>


WP Grande Plugin

WP Grande Plugin enables you to customize your wordpress installation backend to the core and much more...

Rolf Allard van Hagen

<p>Take control of your WordPress core <strong>XML Sitemap</strong> and add a <strong>Google News Sitemap</strong>. Compatible with WordPress <strong>Multisite</strong>, <strong>Polylang</strong> and <strong>WPML</strong> and most caching plugins. There are no static files created.</p>
<p>NEW: Connect your site to your <strong>Google Search Console</strong> and <strong>Bing Webmaster Tools</strong> to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.<br />
NEW: <strong>Submit your sitemaps</strong> right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back!</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.</li>
<li>Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation.</li>
<li>Add custom robots.txt rules.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>XML Sitemap</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index.</li>
<li>Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news.</li>
<li>Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps.</li>
<li>Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a custom sitemap with external URLs.</li>
<li>Add external sitemaps.</li>
<li>Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.</li>
<li>Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.</li>
<li>Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.</li>
<li>Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Google News Sitemap</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.</li>
<li>Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Limit inclusion of certain post categories.</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Extensions</h4>
<p><strong><a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/xml-sitemap-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML Sitemap Advanced</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)</li>
<li>Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.</li>
<li>Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives</li>
<li>Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex</li>
</ul>
<p><strong><a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/google-news-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Advanced</a></strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.</li>
<li>Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
<p>This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.</p>
<p><strong>Data that is published</strong></p>
<p>An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs.<br />
An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.</p>
<p>A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.</p>
<p><strong>Data that is transmitted</strong></p>
<p>when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.</p>
<h4>Contribute</h4>
<p>If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.</p>
<p>If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.</p>
<p><strong>NOTES:</strong></p>
<ol>
<li>
<p>If you <em>do not use fancy URL’s</em> or you have WordPress site running in a <em>subdirectory</em>, a dynamic <strong>robots.txt will NOT be generated</strong>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site <em>and</em> sitemap performance.</p>
</li>
</ol>


XML Sitemap & Google News


I've been trying several plugins to generate a proper sitemap on our site. This one has a simple yet effective setup and really works like a charm with my CPT's.


Really works with custom post types

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.

WP Grande Plugin vs XML Sitemap & Google News