Description

Extends the WordPress Sitemaps XML:

Improve the WordPress sitemaps XML with article modification times, alternate language URLs, news sitemaps, images sitemaps, video sitemaps (requires WPSSO Core Premium for video details) and more.

Include Alternate Languages:

Include localized pages for Google (ie. alternate language URLs) from PolyLang and WMPL.

Include Images and Videos:

Optionally include images and videos in the WordPress sitemaps XML. Note that video information requires the WPSSO Core Premium plugin for video details.

Include Post Type Archives:

Include missing post type archive pages in WordPress sitemaps (like the WooCommerce shop page and The Events Calendar events page).

Select Post Types and Taxonomies:

Optionally include or exclude post types and taxonomies from the WordPress sitemaps XML.

Exclude Noindex and Redirected URLs:

Exclude noindex and redirected posts, pages, custom post types, taxonomies (categories, tags, etc.), and user profiles pages from the WordPress sitemaps XML.

WPSSO Core Required

WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML is an add-on for the WPSSO Core plugin, which creates extensive and complete structured data to present your content at its best for social sites and search results – no matter how URLs are shared, reshared, messaged, posted, embedded, or crawled.

Installation

Install and Uninstall

Reviews

Vladimir Bender Ipril 23, 2024

But frequent error checking is very annoying.

AaronDeee Séptembor 17, 2022

Thanks for continuing to expand and improve this excellent plugin

sprayandall Jun 15, 2022

Very efficient, great component

jamessheen Februari 12, 2022

love everything about these components… i have now ditched Yoast…

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Contributors & Developers

“WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemaps” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

JS Morisset

“WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemaps” has been translated into 2 locales. Thank you to the translators for their contributions.

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Changelog

Version Numbering

Version components: {major}.{minor}.{bugfix}[-{stage}.{level}]

{major} = Major structural code changes and/or incompatible API changes (ie. breaking changes).
{minor} = New functionality was added or improved in a backwards-compatible manner.
{bugfix} = Backwards-compatible bug fixes or small improvements.
{stage}.{level} = Pre-production release: dev < a (alpha) < b (beta) < rc (release candidate).

Standard Edition Repositories

Development Version Updates

WPSSO Core Premium edition customers have access to development, alpha, beta, and release candidate version updates:

Under the SSO > Update Manager settings page, select the “Development and Up” (for example) version filter for the WPSSO Core plugin and/or its add-ons. When new development versions are available, they will automatically appear under your WordPress Dashboard > Updates page. You can reselect the “Stable / Production” version filter at any time to reinstall the latest stable version.

WPSSO Core Standard edition users (ie. the plugin hosted on WordPress.org) have access to the latest development version under the Advanced Options section.

Changelog / Release Notes

Version 8.4.0 (2024/08/25)

New Features
- None.
Improvements
- None.
Bugfixes
- None.
Developer Notes
- Changed the main instantiation action hook from ‘init_objects’ to ‘init_objects_preloader’.
Requires At Least
- PHP v7.4.33.
- WordPress v5.9.
- WPSSO Core v18.20.0.

WPSSO WP Sitemaps XML with News, Image, and Video Sitemaps