- Latest version: 1.2.1
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Simple Wp Sitemap is a WordPress sitemap plugin that generates both an xml and an html sitemap dynamically. These two are updated automatically every time someone's visiting them. Meaning they will always be up to date and just work without you ever having to do anything (except activate the plugin). Reason the sitemaps are generated dynamically instead of being created as actual files is because it's much more solid. No more problems with having to access, create or delete files. Instead they're just presented when needed to.
Both sitemaps are multisite and multilanguage compatible. Every site gets their own sitemap, and all multilanguage urls are included in them. The sitemaps are also mobile friendly and works well with caching plugins!
The plugin works automatically on Apache servers, but it's also possible to get Simple Wp Sitemap working on Nginx.
What a sitemap is
A sitemap is a list of a websites pages and works pretty much like a map. It's a good thing to have for both search engines that wants to be able to find all relevant pages and index them, and for users who might have a hard time navigating a site. When users can't find what they're looking for they get irritated, and nobody wants that. Having a sitemap available is a way to make it easy for them.
Just think about pirates in the old days who would navigate the seas around the world and raid merchants. It would be pretty hard for them to do this without a real map and compass to find out where all continents, islands and cities were. This is just what a sitemap is, a map. In reality it's actually just a page with links to all posts and pages a site has. Easily to be discovered by those who wants (even by pirates should be noted).
Background
When Simple Wp Sitemap was just launched it created normal static files. For some sites this could probably have worked alright. But then something happened, for some reason it got a couple downloads and some WordPress users started to notice errors. This was because WordPress itself is very dynamic and shoveling in static creation of files in the process just didn't seem to go along so well.
One day I decided that's it! No more static files and did a total makeover of the plugin. This was the best thing that could ever have happened to it, and it now works alright. Making both web crawlers, site owners and users happy!
Learn more and download
The plugin is open source and is available for free for everyone who uses WordPress as their platform. Download link, change logs, screenshots and reviews etc can be found at: https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-wp-sitemap.
Hi
I have a question. I wan to add dynamic URL's in my sitemap.xml file. I have a page named report but that page is dynamic like it is creating 1000 URL's like this www.mysite/report/dynamic_slug now what I want to do here is add all those URLs in my sitemap currently sitemap is including only one URL and that is the main page URL www.mysite.com/report
Thanks
Your plug-in is great, thank you~
I have used your plugin. The sitemap links are properly working. But I want to know that how can I access sitemaps on my website…Do I have to insert the sitemap links onto my website or something else???
Plz help
Possible to use this sitemap with shortcode?
It would great if you guys had a video that showed how to set things up. I purchased the premium version and don't see where to install the activation key.
Also the links are redirecting to my home page?
Hi I sent you a mail about this, but I'll also answer it again for future readers.
The key is just used to download premium and to get new updates when released. Once you've purchased you can download premium from the downloads page. There's also installation instructions on the page, and how to upgrade from free. But a video is actually a good idea so I'll consider making one!
If your links redirects to home page please try and deactivate and then reactivate the plugin, that should fix it since it "clears the cache".
Thanks for the reply. deactivating and reactivating worked.
Do you suggest just using the default settings? Having a tutorial on when to use the other settings would be a nice add.
Hi Webbjocke. I've tried out plenty of Sitemap plugins in my lifetime but yours has been the best by far. Since I've been using it for quite some time I decided to do a Simple Wp Sitemap review https://www.webhostwhat.com/best-modern-day-free-sitemap-plugin-review-for-wordpress — and I had fun writing it.
If you like it, you are welcome to link to it of course.
Huge thanks for your efforts!
Hi what a nice review! Awesome, I'm glad you like the plugin.
Hello.
I have a problem. Sitemaps are not working on my site and when i visit the sitemap links they only show me my homepage.
Lars
Hi! My guess is your WordPress permalinks setting is set to "plain", so your page urls look like "yoursite.com/?p=14" etc? If that's the case try and change it to another option and see if that fixes it (settings > permalinks in your wp dashboard).
Also you could try and just deactivate and reactivate the plugin, sometimes that actually fixes problems like that since redirect rules gets refreshed.
Yes it worked! Thanks.
Hi,
I like the plugin, very helpful, just wonder why it can not pick up the WPML multilanguage pages. The English pages shows up but none of the Swedish ones. POssible to solve that?
Thanks and best regards/John
Hi glad you like the plugin!
Hm that's not so good. A problem here though is that wpml isn't free right? So I can't test it to find out what's going wrong.
Nice plugin … But, I'm having error. In generated xml file I get empty first three lines of code and that means error in this file. Any idea? Thank you. Gorazd
Hi glad you like it! Well there was another guy couple weeks ago who had kind of the same issue. The problem for him was that WordPress was printing out some errors coming from his theme, which got suppressed and resulted in the empty rows.
Look at wordpress.org/support/topic/xml-sitemap-error-10 and try the solutions there and see if that helps!