Options to manage the WordPress core XML Sitemaps, optimize and fix some bugs.
The light-weight XML Sitemaps Manager allows you to de/activate WordPress core XML sitemaps, change the maximum number of URLs per sitemap and add Last Modified dates.
Fixes some core XML Sitemap bugs:
– Blog page lastmod in WP 6.5 (use last post date instead of last modified date)
– 404 Response code on certain sitemaps, ticket.
– Don’t set is_home() true, ticket.
– Don’t execute main query, ticket.
– Ignore stickyness in WP 6.0 and below, ticket (fixed in WP 6.1).
Improves core XML Sitemap performance by reducing the number of database queries for:
– the sitemap index by 5;
– each post type sitemap by 4;
– each taxonomy sitemap by the number of terms in that sitemap, ticket (fixed in WP 6.0);
– each user sitemap by the number of users in that sitemap.
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There is no data published that was not already public. There is no data actively transmitted to search engines or other third parties.
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Credits to all users actively discussing and contributing code to Sitemap component bugs, explicitly to @Tkama for suggesting to render the sitemaps at the parse_request action hook.
All the plugin settings can be found on the Settings > Reading admin page, under Search engine visibility.
A selection of community proposed fixes to reported Sitemap component bugs are included. Along the way, new ones might be added and resolved ones will be removed. If you are looking for a specific bug fix to be included, please ask on this plugin Support forum or via an Issue or Pull Request on Github.