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Smart Sitemap Generator

v2.0.1 · by Optimist Hub

Automatically generate XML sitemaps and a sitemap index for your posts, pages and custom post types. Search-engine ready and fast.

About this plugin

Smart Sitemap Generator creates XML sitemaps for your content and a sitemap index that points to all of them, so you can submit a single URL to Google, Bing and Yandex.

Sitemaps are written as static files, so serving them costs almost nothing and they are generated without slowing down your visitors.

Features

  • Generates a sitemap for each post type you select
  • Builds a sitemap index (sitemap-index.xml) linking them all
  • Includes lastmod, changefreq and priority for every URL
  • Splits large sites into multiple sitemap files of 2,000 URLs each
  • Rebuilds automatically when you publish or update content
  • Rebuilds on a schedule you choose: 24 hours, 1 week, 15 days or 30 days
  • Regenerates immediately when you save the settings
  • Output validates against the official sitemaps.org schema
  • Sitemaps are stored in wp-content/uploads/sitemaps/, which is writable on normal hosting
  • Adds Options -Indexes to the sitemap directory to prevent directory listing
  • Removes all generated files when you uninstall the plugin

Where are my sitemaps?

After activation the index is available at:

https://example.com/wp-content/uploads/sitemaps/sitemap-index.xml

Submit that URL to Google Search Console, Bing Webmaster Tools and Yandex Webmaster.

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