XML Sitemap & Google News

الوصف

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

An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs.
An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.

A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.

Data that is transmitted

when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.

Contribute

If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick rating or helping other users out on the support forum.

If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to translate it into your language or contribute code on Github.

Credits

XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.

NOTES:

  1. If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated.

  2. On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.

لقطات الشاشة

  • XML Sitemap feed viewed in a normal browser. For your eyes only 😉
  • XML Sitemap source as read by search engines.

التنصيب

WordPress

I. If you have been using another XML Sitemap plugin before, check your site root and remove any created sitemap.xml, sitemap-news.xml and (if you’re not managing this one manually) robots.txt files that remained there.

II. Install plugin by:

Quick installation via Covered Web Services !

… OR …

Search for “xml sitemap feed” and install with that slick Plugins > Add New admin page.

… OR …

Follow these steps:

  1. Download archive.

  2. Upload the zip file via the Plugins > Add New > Upload page … OR … unpack and upload with your favourite FTP client to the /plugins/ folder.

III. Activate the plugin on the Plugins page.

Done! Check your sparkling new XML Sitemap by visiting yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml (adapted to your domain name of course) with a browser or any online XML Sitemap validator. You might also want to check if the sitemap is listed in your yourblogurl.tld/robots.txt file.

WordPress 3+ in Multi Site mode

Same as above but do a Network Activate to make a XML sitemap available for each site on your network.

Installed alongside WordPress MU Sitewide Tags Pages, XML Sitemap Feed will not create a sitemap.xml nor change robots.txt for any tag blogs. This is done deliberately because they would be full of links outside the tags blogs own domain and subsequently ignored (or worse: penalised) by Google.

Uninstallation

Upon uninstalling the plugin from the Admin > Plugins page, plugin options and meta data will be cleared from the database. See notes in the uninstall.php file.

On multisite, the uninstall.php loops through all sites in the network to perform the uninstallation process for each site. However, on large networks it only does this when define('XMLSF_MULTISITE_UNINSTALL', true); is explicitly set in wp-config.php.

الأسئلة المتكررّة

Please read more on FAQ’s and Troubleshooting

المراجعات

27 يناير، 2026 8 replies
Didn’t work at first, the support offered to help and reinstalled it and it works. it has automatically submit to Google and Bing, that’s awesome feature. works perfectly now I guess.
11 أكتوبر، 2025 1 reply
Finally! A sitemap plugin that allows me to edit my sitemap with ease. This is the 6th sitemap plugin I’ve tried and my favourite by far. Very easy to exclude certain pages, posts, tags or categories from my sitemap.
5 نوفمبر، 2024 1 reply
Google Error, # vorübergehender Fehler bei der Verarbeitung Ihrer Sitemap.Dieser Fehler tritt leider erst seid kurzem auf.Meine Website wurde seid dem nicht mehr von Google crawling aktualisiert. Verwendung:Webiste | Wordpress (vers. 6.6.2) Verwendung:Plugin | XML Sitemap & Google News (vers. 5.4.9)◉my Optionen: Enable XML sitemaps |> XML Sitemap Index |> Server: (“Plugin”) Verwendung (Google Search Console)(1) Eingereichte Sitemaps:|> zuletzt gelesen, vor 3 Wochen (??)(2) Seitenindexierung: Seite ist indexiert (??)jedoch unter der Auffindbarkeit heißt es:|> Sitemaps: Keine verweisenden Sitemaps gefunden|> Sitemaps: Vorübergehender Verarbeitungsfehler my Sitemap:https://www.hausmeister-service-keuneke.de/sitemap.xml
6 سبتمبر، 2024 3 replies
I initially asked why it didn’t actually do Google News, but the prompt reply below shows that activating this feature was in a different place.
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