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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,changefreqandpriorityfor 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 -Indexesto 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.