Smart Sitemap Generator is a simple plugin that allows you to intelligently generate XML Sitemap outputs of your posts, pages and products automatical …
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.
FAQ
Where do I find the sitemap URL?
It is shown at the top of the plugin settings page under Settings > Smart Sitemap.
Can I use this with Yoast SEO, Rank Math or All in One SEO?
Yes. If another plugin already generates sitemaps, simply do not submit this one, or turn this plugin’s generation off. Running both is harmless but redundant.
Which post types are included?
Only the public post types you tick in the settings. Attachments are excluded on purpose, since media files are not addressable content pages.
How do I customise priority or changefreq?
Use the smartsitemap_priority and smartsitemap_changefreq filters:
add_filter( 'smartsitemap_priority', function ( $priority, $post ) {
return 'page' === $post->post_type ? '1.0' : $priority;
}, 10, 2 );
The sitemaps are not regenerating. What should I check?
Make sure WP-Cron is working. On low-traffic sites or sites with DISABLE_WP_CRON set to true, call wp-cron.php from a real server cron job. You can also save the settings page to force an immediate rebuild.
Does it work on multisite?
Yes. Each site generates its own sitemaps inside its own uploads directory.
ChangeLog
2.0.1
- Reduced the tag list to the five-tag limit. “bing sitemap” was removed so “seo” takes effect instead of being ignored by WordPress.org. “google sitemap” and “yandex sitemap” remain, so search-engine coverage is preserved.
- No functional changes.
2.0.0
Fixed
- Fixed a fatal error that made the plugin completely unusable. The
data_get() helper came from rappasoft/laravel-helpers, which requires Laravel’s illuminate/support package. That package was never bundled, so data_get() was undefined. The plugin now has no Laravel dependency.
- Fixed a fatal
TypeError on every post save: the save_post callback was registered with three accepted arguments but declared none.
- Fixed
strtotime() being called with a string as its second argument (the timezone offset), which throws a TypeError on PHP 8.
- Fixed the
settings_fields() call using a settings group that was never registered, which broke saving the settings page.
- Fixed the post type checkbox field throwing a warning when no post types had been saved yet.
- Fixed sitemap URLs being built by slicing file paths, which produced wrong URLs. They are now built from the uploads base URL.
- Fixed
lastmod being taken from post_date in local time; it now uses the correct GMT timestamp in ISO 8601 format.
- Fixed the sitemap index pointing at itself.
Changed
- Sitemaps are now written to
wp-content/uploads/sitemaps/ instead of ABSPATH/sitemaps/. The web root is not writable on many hosts.
- Rewritten as a namespaced, PSR-4 autoloaded plugin (
OptimistHub\SmartSitemap). The old includes/ classes are gone.
- The plugin classes are now actually loaded. The previous
index.php only required the Composer autoloader, and the main class was never instantiated by any code path.
- Rebuilding is now debounced. A bulk edit regenerates the sitemaps once at the end of the request instead of once per post.
- Sitemaps are split into files of 2,000 URLs, matching the documented
setMaxUrls behaviour, instead of silently generating one file while configured for 1,000.
- Added a real
uninstall.php that removes options, the cron event and all generated files.
- Added
composer.json, which was previously excluded by .gitignore and caused the broken dependency tree.
- Removed the unused XSL stylesheet assets that no code referenced.
- Regeneration now runs on a real daily cron event plus the configurable interval check, rather than on every single page load in
init, which regenerated all sitemaps on every request.
- Requires WordPress 6.0 and PHP 7.4 or newer.
1.0.01
- Plugin Github url changed.
1.0.0
