XML Sitemap & Google News

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.
• Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.
• Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.

Google News Sitemap

• Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.
• Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.
• Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).
• Supports custom post types.
• Limit inclusion of certain post categories.
• Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.

Pro Extensions

XML Sitemap Advanced

• Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.
• Sitemap notifier log
• Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)
• Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.
• Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives
• Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex

Google News Advanced

• Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.
• Sitemap notifier log
• Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.
• Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.
• Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.

Privacy / GDPR

This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.

Data that is published

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