Rolf Allard van Hagen

The light-weight XML Sitemaps Manager allows you to de/activate WordPress core XML sitemaps, change the maximum number of URLs per sitemap and add Last Modified dates.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Options to disable the complete sitemap index or exclude certain post type sitemaps, taxonomy sitemaps or the user sitemap.</li>
<li>Change the maximum number of URLs in the sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add Last Modified dates to posts, terms, users and the first sitemap of each type in the index.</li>
<li>Conditional is_sitemap(), <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51543" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>, and is_sitemap_stylesheet() for good measure.</li>
<li>Polylang compatible.</li>
<li>Multisite compatible: Can be network activated. On uninstallation, all sub-site options will be cleared from the database as long as not is_large_network().</li>
<li>Additional fixes and improvents to the core XML Sitemap.</li>
</ul>
Fixes some core XML Sitemap bugs: 
– Blog page lastmod in WP 6.5 (use last post date instead of last modified date) 
– 404 Response code on certain sitemaps, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51912" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>. 
– Don’t set is_home() true, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51542" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>. 
– Don’t execute main query, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51117" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a>. 
– Ignore stickyness in WP 6.0 and below, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55633" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a> (fixed in WP 6.1).
Improves core XML Sitemap performance by reducing the number of database queries for: 
– the sitemap index by 5; 
– each post type sitemap by 4; 
– each taxonomy sitemap by the number of terms in that sitemap, <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/55239" rel="nofollow ugc">ticket</a> (fixed in WP 6.0); 
– each user sitemap by the number of users in that sitemap.
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
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.
There is no data published that was not already public. There is no data actively transmitted to search engines or other third parties.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemaps-manager/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemaps-manager" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.
If you wish to help improve this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemaps-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemaps-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
Credits to all users actively discussing and contributing code to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/query?status=accepted&status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&status=reviewing&component=Sitemaps&order=priority" rel="nofollow ugc">Sitemap component bugs</a>, explicitly to <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/51912#comment:9" rel="nofollow ugc">@Tkama</a> for suggesting to render the sitemaps at the parse_request action hook.

XML Sitemaps Manager

Options to manage the WordPress core XML Sitemaps, optimize and fix some bugs.

Marcin Pietrzak

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.
Key Features: 
– Include or exclude selected post types and taxonomies from your sitemap. 
– Exclude individual taxonomy terms from the sitemap. 
– Exclude individual entries, such as the Privacy Policy page, from the sitemap. 
– Simple configuration via the WordPress admin menu. 
– Compatible with WordPress 6.0+ and PHP 8.0+. 
– Supports translation and is open source.
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][].
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.
<h4>See room for improvement?</h4>
Great! There are several ways you can get involved to help make WP Sitemap Control better:
<ol>
<li>Report Bugs: 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>Suggest New Features: 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>Issue Pull Requests: 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>
Thank you for wanting to make WP Sitemap Control better for everyone!

WP Sitemap Control

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

XML Sitemaps Manager vs WP Sitemap Control