July 22, 2024

SimpleSitemap Plugin

Generates a simple sitemap for your site.

Generates a simple sitemap, listing the page and posts on your site. You can set which page will become your sitemap, and the sitemap will be automatically inserted with your regular page content.

This plugin is useful in helping your visitors find their way around the site, and is beneficial for search engines crawling your site.

July 2024 – Plugin now comes with a Gutenberg compatible block, allowing you to choose which post-types to show sitemap links for. The earlier functionality & shortcodes continue to work unchanged.

Installation

Upload plugin to your wordpress installation plugin directory
Activate plugin through the Plugins menu in WordPress
Look at the configuration screen (found under Settings in the WordPress menu)
Choose which page to show the sitemap on, and tick which pages or post-categories you wish to exclude from the sitemap.

FAQ

Can I change the order in which Pages are listed?

Pages are listed according to ‘menu order’. When you edit pages, you can set the Order. There are plugins available which let you drag/drop pages to set your preferred order.

Are pages displayed hierarchically?

Yes – if you have pages & subpages, they will be listed as an indented list.

Can I change the order in which Posts are listed?

No. Posts are listed from newest to oldest, and are not grouped by category.

Can I display my blog posts grouped by category?

No, I haven’t build that feature yet.

How do I use the shortcode to show my custom post-type?

[simplesitemap view=”POST_TYPE”]

Changelog

1.4.5

Realised that renaming plugin to index.php will disable existing installs when updating
Go back to old filename for that compatibility.

1.4.4

Adding a Gutenberg block, and the build tools that go along with it

1.4.3

Adding /assets/ folder for use on plugin repository
Fix an error in my build/deploy script

1.4.1

Release using github build tools

1.4.0

Refactor plugin, and set up a git repo with SVN deployment

1.3.1

Code formatting changes to bring inline with WordPress PHP Code Standards
Convert class to singleton model

1.3

Update code to suit WordPress 4.4 standards
Better handling of post type outputs
Now supports Pages, Posts, and Products out of the box
Shortcode can be used to draw additional types
Action hooks included, might be useful to developers
Remove the Custom Titles function – haven’t used it in a long time.

1.1

Now supports Custom Titles through Thesis Theme and All In One SEO Plugin
Added ShortCode Support: [simplesitemap] or [simplesitemap view=pages] or [simplesitemap view=posts]
Auto-Add to Page now allows you to insert before OR after original page content

1.0

Initial release.