#210 by installs
WP Sitemap Page
Add a sitemap on any of your page using the simple shortcode [wp_sitemap_page]. Improve the SEO and navigation of your website.
- Installs
- 200,000+
- Rating
- 4.8 (205)
- Updated
- 2 months ago
XML Sitemap & Google News
Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.
- Active installs
- 100,000+
- #323 of 1,000
- Downloads, all time
- 4.9M
- 4,938,465
- Downloads, 30 days
- 17.3K
- 4.3K in the last 7
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5
- 85 reviews
- Last updated
- 5 months ago
- Jun 10, 2026
- Version
- 5.7.7
- 50 releases
Upkeep and compatibility
| Last updated | June 10, 2026Updated in the last year |
|---|---|
| Tested up to | WordPress 7.0.8Older than WordPress 7.1.4, the current release |
| Needs WordPress | 4.4 or newer |
| Needs PHP | 5.6 or newer |
| First published | September 26, 2009 |
| Support, last two months | 1 of 2 threads resolved (50%) |
Reviews
4.4 / 5 from 85 reviews
| 5 stars | 69 |
|---|---|
| 4 stars | 4 |
| 3 stars | 2 |
| 2 stars | 0 |
| 1 star | 10 |
Downloads, last 30 days
What the author says it does
Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created.
NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.
NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back!
Features
- Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps.
- Add a Google News Sitemap.
- Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.
- Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation.
- Add custom robots.txt rules.
XML Sitemap
- Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index.
- Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news.
- Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps.
- Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps.
- Add a custom sitemap with external URLs.
- Add external sitemaps.
- Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.
- Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.
The opening of the plugin's own description. The full text, installation notes and changelog are on its WordPress.org page.
Latest changelog entry
Date: 20260610
* FIX Rank Math admin warning
Screenshots
XML Sitemap feed viewed in a normal browser. For your eyes only ;) 
XML Sitemap source as read by search engines.
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Where this page's numbers come from
Read from the WordPress.org plugin API on , when WordPress 7.1.4 was the current release. WordPress.org rounds active installs into buckets. These are the directory's figures, not my verdict, and I haven't tested this plugin. The author takes donations at their donate page.