Karailiev’s sitemap

This plugin adds a XML sitemap and news sitemap to your blog.
It’s used to show all your pages and posts to the search engines like Google, Yahoo and

Author:Valentin Karailiev (profile at wordpress.org)
WordPress version required:2.5
WordPress version tested:4.0
Plugin version:1.0
Added to WordPress repository:21-04-2008
Last updated:19-11-2014
Warning! This plugin has not been updated in over 2 years. It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when used with more recent versions of WordPress.
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Plugin URI:https://wordpress.org/plugins/karailievs-site...
Total downloads:30 253
Active installs:100+
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This plugin adds a XML sitemap and news sitemap to your blog. It's used to show all your pages and posts to the search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN.

Changes in version 1.1:

  • Change: Removing links to the old documentation

Changes in version 1.0:

  • Feature: Custom priority for every page/post
  • Feature: Exclude pages/posts from sitemap
  • Feature: Include attachments in sitemap
  • Change: Configuration page reorganization
  • Change: All settings are saved in a single variable
  • Fix: Can't create news sitemap if the general sitemap is turned off

Changes in version 0.7.1:

  • Date bug fix

Changes in version 0.7:

  • Google news sitemap added. It shows the posts from the last 3 days. Writable file named sitemap-news.xml has to be created
  • Database query optimization
  • Time format change

Changes in version 0.6:

  • Users can determine the priority of posts, pages, categories and tags
  • Users can determine the change frequency of posts, pages, categories and tags

Changes in version 0.5.1:

  • Fixes some compatibility problems

Changes in version 0.5:

  • The plugin pings Google on rebuild (no more than once per hour (recommended by Google))
  • Users can change the sitemap's location

Changes in version 0.4:

  • Restore lost MySQL server connection (reported by Matteo)
  • Categories added to the sitemap
  • Tags added to the sitemap

Changes in version 0.3:

  • There is an option to turn on or off sitemap rebuilding when comments are changed (submit/edit/delete)
  • There is an option to turn on or off sitemap rebuilding when attachments are changed (upload/edit/delete)

Changes in version 0.2:

  • Sitemap file has the usual name sitemap.xml
  • Plugin checks if the file exists and if it's writable
  • Sitemap is generated only when content changes (new/edit/delete post/page/comment/attachment)
  • Sitemap generates URLs according the permalinks settings

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