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Free Plugin by Rincewind v1.5.7

WP Realtime Sitemap

A sitemap plugin to make it easier for your site to show all your pages, posts, archives, categories and tags in an easy to read format.

WP Realtime Sitemap

The facts

Rating
4.6★ from 25
Active installs
9k+
Price
Free
Last updated
28 Nov 2017
Added
Jun 2010
Requires WP
3.0
Tested up to
WP 4.8.30
Downloads
198,251

Our analysis

AI-assisted

WP Realtime Sitemap is a WordPress plugin designed to display a sitemap of your site's pages, posts, archives, categories, and tags in a user-friendly format. It does not generate an XML file for search engines, focusing instead on providing a visual representation of site structure without requiring coding skills.

The plugin allows you to customise the output order and visibility of various elements, such as pages, posts, and categories. It supports shortcodes for easy integration into your content and works with WordPress Multisite and multilingual setups.

Best for: This plugin suits users looking to create a visual sitemap for their WordPress site without coding knowledge.

What it does well

  • Customisable output order for sitemap elements
  • Supports shortcodes for easy display
  • Works with WordPress Multisite and multilingual sites
  • Allows exclusion of specific IDs from the sitemap
  • Includes an uninstaller for easy removal

Where it falls short

  • Does not create an XML sitemap for search engines
  • Last updated in November 2017, may not be compatible with newer WordPress versions

Verdict

WP Realtime Sitemap offers a straightforward solution for displaying site structure, but its lack of recent updates may limit its compatibility with the latest WordPress features.

From the developer

Rincewind's own description of WP Realtime Sitemap, lightly tidied.

A sitemap plugin to make it easier for your site to show all your pages, posts, archives, categories and tags in an easy to read format without any need for template modification or HTML/PHP knowledge in a page.

This plugin doesn’t create an XML file to be used with any search engine this is outside of what this plugin was designed to do.

Features

  1. Order the output anyway you want in the plugin settings page.
  2. Order the output of the WP Nav Menu, Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Archives, Categories and Tags.
  3. Show/hide WP Nav Menu, Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Archives, Categories and Tags.
  4. Optionally show categories and/or tags as a bullet list, or as a tag cloud.
  5. Exclude Pages, Posts, Custom Post Types, Categories and Tags IDs.
  6. Limit the amount of posts, custom post types, archives, categories and tags displayed.
  7. Change the archive type from the WordPress default.
  8. Show/hide Categories and Tags which have no posts associated to them.
  9. Show/hide how many posts are in each Archive, Category or Tag.
  10. Optionally name the sections different from the default of Pages, Posts, Archives, Categories and Tags.
  11. Hierarchical list of pages and categories.
  12. Supports I18n for translation.
  13. Supports use of the WordPress shortcode for including the sitemap in pages and posts.
  14. Supports menus created with the inbuilt WordPress Menu Editor.
  15. Works on WordPress Multisite (WPMU) and Multilingual (WPML) blogs.
  16. Comes with an uninstaller, if you don’t want it anymore just deactivate the plugin and delete it from within WordPress and it will delete all of its settings itself.

I can’t think of anything else that I personally would need this plugin to do for my own use, if anyone feels it doesn’t meet their requirements, or has any suggestions as to how to make it better then please get in touch with me and I will see what I can do to accommodate your requests.

Please rate this plugin and/or make a donation if you find it useful, thank you.

Translations

WP Realtime Sitemap is available in various languages, some of which are only partially translated if you could help yourself and others by filling in some of the gaps to complete a translation I would personally be very grateful, you can see the translations here https://goo.gl/wwYdW8.

I have included a wp-realtime-sitemap.po file in the translations folder if you would prefer to use a standalone program such as Poedit, if you did choose to do the translation this way please also submit the translations to the http://translate.wordpress.org website also.

Examples

The shortcode will use the admin interface for all its configurable options the shortcode is now only used for where to display/output the sitemap at.

Show the sitemap: [wp-realtime-sitemap].

Ordering is done within the plugin settings page.

Old depreciated options for reference only

The example shortcodes below are for reference only for use using version below v1.5.2, please do not use these past this version as they are unlikely to be included in future versions, and should therefore be treated as depreciated.

Show everything: [wp-realtime-sitemap show="all"].

Read the full description on the official page →

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