Jenst

<p>Place a shortcode into a post or a page (page recommended) and your sitemap will apear as a list with page numbers.</p>
<h4>Shortcode simple example</h4>
<p>[wp_sitemap]</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Support for both posts and pages</li>
<li>Support for page numbers and option to place it on top or bottom</li>
<li>Support for include and exclude pages / posts</li>
<li>Support for disable posts / pages</li>
<li>Support for order by and sort order</li>
<li>No data added to the database</li>
<li>No settings page added into admin</li>
<li>Sitemap settings are added through a shortcode added in a page</li>
<li>WordPress built in functions are used to make a very small code</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode advanced example</h4>
<p>[wp_sitemap pages=”false” exclude=”9,21,34″]</p>
<h4>Parameters</h4>
<p>exclude</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Define a comma-separated list of Page IDs to be excluded from the list (example: ‘exclude=3,7,31’). There is no default value.</li>
</ul>
<p>include</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Only include certain Pages or Posts in the sitemap. Like exclude, this parameter takes a comma-separated list of Page IDs. There is no default value.</li>
</ul>
<p>posts</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Include Posts. Valid values:
<ul>
<li>true – Posts are included. (Default)</li>
<li>false – Posts are not included.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>pages</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Include Pages. Valid values:
<ul>
<li>true – Pages are included. (Default)</li>
<li>false – Pages are not included.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>sort_column</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Sorts the list of Posts and Pages in a number of different ways. The default setting is sort newest first by Post / Page date.
<ul>
<li>‘post_date’ – Published Post / Page date. (Default)</li>
<li>‘post_title’ – The Post or Page title.</li>
<li>‘post_modified’ – The updated Post or Page date.</li>
<li>‘comment_count’ – The number of comments on a Post or Page.</li>
<li>Other fields in the Posts table.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>sort_order</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Change the sort order of the list of Pages (either ascending or descending). The default is ascending. Valid values:
<ul>
<li>‘ASC’ – Sort from lowest to highest.</li>
<li>‘DESC’ – Sort from highest to lowest. (Default)</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>paging_position</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) The position of the page numbers. Valid values:
<ul>
<li>‘top’ – Add page numbers above the sitemap list</li>
<li>‘bottom’ – Add the page numbers below the sitemap list (Default)</li>
<li>‘both’ – Add page numbers above and below the sitemap list</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>post_count</p>
<ul>
<li>(string) Sets the number of Pages and Posts to display. The default is 50.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Shortcode default settings</h4>
<p>If you don’t know what this means, just ignore this section.</p>
<ul>
<li>exclude => 0</li>
<li>include => 0</li>
<li>posts => “true”</li>
<li>pages => “true”</li>
<li>sort_column => “post_date”</li>
<li>sort_order => “DESC”</li>
<li>paging_position => “bottom”</li>
<li>post_count => 50</li>
</ul>


WP Sitemap

A HTML sitemap with both post and pages. Easy to implement, just add a shortcode tag in a page.

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 vs Simple Wp Sitemap