Marcin Pietrzak

<p>WP Sitemap Control allows you to easily manage which post types and taxonomies are included in your WordPress site’s built-in <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/" rel="nofollow ugc">sitemap</a>. By default, all public post types and taxonomies appear in the <a href="https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/07/22/new-xml-sitemaps-functionality-in-wordpress-5-5/" rel="nofollow ugc">sitemap</a>, but with this plugin, you can include or exclude specific content types to better control your site’s SEO and indexing.</p>
<p><strong>Key Features:</strong><br />
– Include or exclude selected post types and taxonomies from your sitemap.<br />
– Exclude individual taxonomy terms from the sitemap.<br />
– Exclude individual entries, such as the Privacy Policy page, from the sitemap.<br />
– Simple configuration via the WordPress admin menu.<br />
– Compatible with WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.0+.<br />
– Supports translation and is open source.</p>
<p>This plugin is ideal for site owners who want more granular control over their sitemap and wish to prevent certain content from being indexed or archived by search engines. [Learn more about sitemaps][].</p>
<p>The configuration allows you to turn off individual content from the sitemap – an example is “Privacy Policy”, which we do not need to have in our sitemap, and by combining the plugin capabilities <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-seo-improvements/" rel="ugc">Simple SEO Improvements</a> we can also avoid indexing and archiving it.</p>
<h4>See room for improvement?</h4>
<p>Great! There are several ways you can get involved to help make WP Sitemap Control better:</p>
<ol>
<li><strong>Report Bugs:</strong> If you find a bug, error or other problem, please report it! You can do this by <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sitemap-control/" rel="ugc">creating a new topic</a> in the plugin forum. Once a developer can verify the bug by reproducing it, they will create an official bug report in <a href="https://github.com/iworks/wp-sitemap-control" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub</a> where the bug will be worked on.</li>
<li><strong>Suggest New Features:</strong> Have an awesome idea? Please share it! Simply <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/wp-sitemap-control/" rel="ugc">create a new topic</a> in the plugin forum to express your thoughts on why the feature should be included and get a discussion going around your idea.</li>
<li><strong>Issue Pull Requests:</strong> If you’re a developer, the easiest way to get involved is to help out on <a href="https://github.com/iworks/wp-sitemap-control/issues" rel="nofollow ugc">issues already reported</a> in GitHub. Be sure to check out the <a href="https://github.com/iworks/wp-sitemap-control/blob/master/contributing.md" rel="nofollow ugc">contributing guide</a> for developers.</li>
</ol>
<p>Thank you for wanting to make WP Sitemap Control better for everyone!</p>


WP Sitemap Control

WP Sitemap Control allow choosing which public post types or taxonomies should be able in the /wp-sitemap.xml

Lana Codes

<h4>Available sitemaps:</h4>
<ul>
<li>XML Sitemap</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap</li>
</ul>
<p>Options can be found on <strong>Settings > Reading</strong>.</p>
<h4>Examples:</h4>
<ul>
<li>XML Sitemap Index become available on <a href="http://lana.codes/sitemap.xml" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lana.codes/sitemap.xml</a> (or <a href="http://lana.codes/?feed=sitemap" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lana.codes/?feed=sitemap</a>)</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap Index become available on <a href="http://lana.codes/sitemap-news.xml" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lana.codes/sitemap-news.xml</a> (or <a href="http://lana.codes/?feed=sitemap-news" rel="nofollow ugc">http://lana.codes/?feed=sitemap-news</a>)</li>
</ul>
<p>Both are automatically referenced in the dynamically created robots.txt on http://lana.codes/robots.txt to tell search engines where to find your XML Sitemaps.</p>
<p>Note: http://lana.codes/ replace to http://yourwebsite.url/</p>
<h4>Lana Codes</h4>
<p><a href="http://lana.codes/lana-product/lana-sitemap/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lana Sitemap</a><br />
<a href="http://lana.codes/lana-product/lana-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Lana SEO</a></p>


WP Sitemap Control vs Lana Sitemap