Description
Generate XML and HTML sitemaps for your website with ease using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google. This plugin enables you to improve your SEO rankings by creating page, image, news, video, HTML, and RSS sitemaps. It also supports custom post types and taxonomies, allowing you to ensure that all of your content is being indexed by search engines. With a user-friendly interface, you can easily configure the plugin to suit your needs and generate sitemaps in just a few clicks. Keep your website up-to-date and make sure that search engines are aware of all of your content by using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google.
The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.
Supported for more than a decade and rated among the best, it will do exactly what it’s supposed to do – providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines!
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License
Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial site.
Translations
The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the WordPress Codex for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used... [truncated]
Installation
- Deactivate or disable other sitemap generators.
- Install the plugin like you always install plugins, either by uploading it via FTP or by using the “Add Plugin” function of WordPress.
- Activate the plugin on the plugin administration page
- If you want: Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Settings -> XML-Sitemap and customize settings like priorities and change frequencies.
- The plugin will automatically update your sitemap if you publish new content, so there is nothing more to do 🙂
wp plugin install google-sitemap-generator --activateFrequently Asked Questions
To generate a sitemap for your website, follow these steps:
- Install and activate the XML Sitemap Generator for Google plugin on your WordPress site.
- Once activated, the plugin will automatically generate a sitemap.xml file for your website.
- You can access the sitemap by appending
/sitemap.xmlto your website’s URL (e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml). - Submit your sitemap to search engines like Google, Bing, Yandex, and Baidu to ensure that your site is indexed and crawled properly.
- Go to the Google Search Console and sign in with your Google account.
- Click on the “Sitemaps” tab and enter th... [truncated]
Changelog
4.1.21 (2024-04-21)
- Fixed a regression with saving post/page exclusions.
- Fixed an issue with post/tag priority settings.
4.1.20 (2024-04-14)
- Fixed empty ping error
- Fixed response code issue with index sitemap
- Fixed interoperability with existing robots.txt file
- Fixed URL for guest authors
- Fixed uninstalled plugin error
- Fixed sitemap indexation
- Fixed “Trying to access array offset on value of type bool…” warning
- Fixed setting of custom taxonomy change frequency and priority
- Fixed missing custom taxonomies issue
- Fixed issue with hierarchical taxonomies
- Fixed missing categories issue
- Fixed sort order of URLs (changed from descending to ascending)
- Improved WooCommerce support (added products sitemap)
- Improved multisite support
- Improved SEO plugin interoperability
- Improved Nginx config... [truncated]