Custom Sitemap Generator is a powerful, lightweight WordPress plugin that creates XML sitemaps to help search engines discover and index your content efficiently. Unlike bloated SEO plugins, this focused tool does one thing exceptionally well – generating optimized sitemaps.
Key Features
Comprehensive Content Support:
* Posts, Pages, and Custom Post Types
* Categories, Tags, and Custom Taxonomies
* Author archives
* Automatic sitemap index generation
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Advanced SEO Features:
* Priority and change frequency settings per content type
* Last modified dates for better crawl efficiency
* Sitemap Health Check for redirects, errors, noindex, canonical mismatches, and robots.txt blocks
* Configurable health check batch size up to 50 URLs per request
* Exclusion by ID, URL, or slug pattern
* robots.txt integration
* Search engine ping (Google & Bing)
Performance Optimized:
* Smart pagination for large sites (50,000 URL limit per sitemap)
* Debounced regeneration to prevent duplicate processing
* Memory-efficient queries for sites with thousands of posts
* Scheduled regeneration via WP Cron
Developer Friendly:
* Clean, well-documented code
* WordPress coding standards compliant
* Hooks and filters for customization
* Translation ready
How It Works
- Install and activate the plugin
- Configure which content types to include
- Sitemaps are automatically generated and updated
- Submit your sitemap URL to search engines
Your main sitemap will be available at: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Screenshots
General settings - Configure which content types to include
Custom sitemaps - Create sitemaps with specific URLs
Advanced settings - Priority, frequency, and integration options