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Total downloads: 10,203
Active installs: 700
Total reviews: 12
Average rating: 5
Support threads opened: 0
Support threads resolved: 0 (0%)
Available in: 1 language(s)
Contributors: 3
Last updated: 4/28/2025 (246 days ago)
Added to WordPress: 9/2/2020 (5 years old)
Minimum WordPress version: 5.5
Tested up to WordPress version: 6.8.3
Minimum PHP version: 5.6

Maintenance & Compatibility

Maintenance score

Stale • Last updated 246 days ago • 12 reviews

42/100

Is WP Sitemaps Config abandoned?

Likely maintained (last update 246 days ago).

Compatibility

Requires WordPress: 5.5
Tested up to: 6.8.3
Requires PHP: 5.6

Ratings

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Developers

Kybernetik Services (Owner)1Martin Stehle (Owner)9Kybernetik Services18

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Description

Since WordPress 5.5, an XML sitemaps functionality is provided in the WordPress core. These sitemaps let search engine crawlers find all URLs quickly and comprehensively.

But there is not any configuration interface. This plugin provides an option page for all XML sitemaps generated by the WordPress core.

WP Sitemaps Config let you easily

  • disable the XML sitemaps completely with a single click
  • remove the sitemaps for all public posts, pages, categories, tags, post formats and users
  • remove the sitemaps for all public custom post types and custom taxonomies
  • add the entries Priority, Change Frequency and Last Modification Date to each URL
  • exclude single posts and pages from the XML sitemaps
  • set the priority and change frequency for each post and page manually

This plugin is ready for multi sites. It requires WordPress 5.5 or higher. To use the XML sitemaps the PHP extension SimpleXML must run on your server.

Demo

You want to test WP Sitemaps Config before installing on your site? Try it out on your free dummy site and click here.

Read also more on Best Sitemap Plugins for WordPress in 2023

Installation

This section describes how to install the plugin and get it working.

  1. Upload wp-sitemaps-config.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
  3. Go to ‘Settings’ > ‘XML Sitemap’

Frequently Asked Questions

No FAQ available

Review feed

Torsten Landsiedel
3/1/2023

The missing UI

As many already have written here: This is the badly missing user interface for the sitemap feature in Core. Sometimes a custom post type or taxonomy is badly registered and has a sitemap, although there is no public facing page available or WP core is generating an author sitemap by default ... With this plugin, you can disable those unwanted sitemaps with one simple checkbox. Additionally, you can enable the last modification date/time which is highly recommended (because crawler now can better plan their work). There is a ticket milestoned for WordPress 6.3 which is discussing this to be part of the core sitemap. And it seems there is a feature planned for custom additions to "priority" and "change frequency". This would be worth a sixth star ;)

Screenshots

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Changelog

2.2.4.1

  • fixed a fatal error that occurs in certain cases in the frontend

2.2.4

  • code cleanup to make the plugin run faster than ever
  • fixed ‘_load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly on front page.’ introduced in WordPress 6.7

2.2.3

  • fixed deprecated notice with PHP 8
  • fixed ‘_load_textdomain_just_in_time was called incorrectly.’ introduced in WordPress 6.7
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 6.7

2.2.2

  • improved strings for text translation

2.2.1

  • removed leftover debugging code
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 6.4-6.5

2.2.0

  • added option in the post metabox for the priority (thanks to @Hinjiriyo)
  • added option in the post metabox for the change frequency (thanks to @Hinjiriyo)
  • changed the default of the change frequency from ‘never’ to ‘weekly’ (inspired by @zodiac1978)
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 6.3

2.1.1

  • fixed issue with time format – improved conversion to ISO 8601 (reported by @zodiac1978)
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 6.2 beta

2.1.0

  • added support to exclude WooCommerce products
  • fixed issue with time format – converted to ISO 8601 (reported by @armbreakersweden)
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 6

2.0.4

  • fixed issue with excluding pages because pages wouldn’t exclude anymore

2.0.3

  • removed empty lines from post sitemap (reported by @gregslegs).
  • changed filter to remove urls from post sitemap

2.0.2

  • code improvement
  • moved language files to GlotPress. So, please contribute as a translator to make WP Sitemaps Config available in more and more languages.
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 5.9

2.0.1

  • Compatibility check with WordPress 5.8
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 5.7
  • Compatibility check with WordPress 5.6.2
  • New branding

2.0.0

  • Added functions to exclude single posts and pages from the sitemaps
  • Added sidebar on the settings pages of this plugin
  • Added header images and icon on the WordPress plugin’s page
  • Added post metadata removal during uninstalling this plugin
  • Published on 2020-10-24

1.0.0

  • Initial release at 2020-09-01
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