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>
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<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>
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<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

Webbjocke

<h4>A WordPress sitemap plugin</h4>
<p>Simple Wp Sitemap is a sitemap plugin that generates both an xml and an html sitemap to your site dynamically. These two are updated automatically everytime someone’s visiting them. Which means they’re always up to date and that you only have to install and activate the plugin once, and it will just work for you without you ever having to worry.</p>
<p>Reason the sitemaps are generated dynamically instead of being created as actual files as they were in the beginning, is because it’s much faster and more solid. No problems with having to access, create and delete files, instead they’re just presented when needed to. It’s now suddenly as lightweight, simple and fast as one can expect!</p>
<p>Also supports the option to add pages to the sitemaps that aren’t part of your original WordPress site. For instance if you create a little html file and upload to your server and want it to be included in them, it’s easily done. You can also block pages that you don’t want to be included, and much more.</p>
<h4>What it does</h4>
<p>So what the plugin actually does is making one xml sitemap and one html sitemap available directly on your site. These aren’t actually real files that can be found in a folder or anything, instead they get generated when visited and can be found at like yourpage.com/sitemap.xml and yourpage.com/sitemap.html.</p>
<p>And yes, of course the sitemaps are mobile friendly. They also work well with caching plugins 🙂</p>
<h4>Multisite and multilanguage compatible</h4>
<p>The sitemaps are multisite and multilanguage compatible. Every site gets their own sitemap, and all multilanguage urls are included in them!</p>


Simple Wp Sitemap

This is my favorite XML sitemap plugin. It's very straightforward to use, and simple in design and execution, but it gets the job done and doesn't blast you with credits or advertising while it does so. 

The developer is very good about responding to support threads, and to date is one of the few developers of XML sitemap plugins that has kept pace with the current version(s) of WordPress.

Most XML sitemap plugins require that you enter a comma-separated string of post IDs in order to exclude pages and posts from the sitemap. This plugin takes a different approach, and uses the actual URLs. While there may be a problem with that approach if one changes permalink structure, it's much easier to implement than using the post IDs. 

The only thing that keeps me from giving this plugin five stars is possibly not due to this plugin at all: I have to disable caching of the sitemap.xml file in WP Super Cache, or the output of sitemap.xml is invalid and doesn't display correctly in a browser. It would be nice to be able to cache the sitemap.xml file on larger sites. I've only found one other XML sitemap plugin that didn't conflict with WP Super Cache in the same way; most of them do.

Love It!

An easy sitemap plugin that adds both an xml and an html sitemap to your site, which updates and maintains themselves so you don't have to!

WP Sitemap Control vs Simple Wp Sitemap