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Author: RavanH

This plugin dynamically creates an XML feed that complies with the XML Sitemap protocol. There are no options to be set and the feed becomes instantly available after activation on yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml (or yourblogurl.tld/index.php?feed=sitemap.xml if you do not use a fancy permalink structure) ready for indexing by search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and others.

An entry Sitemap: http://yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml is added to the (by WordPress dynamically created) robots.txt on yourblogurl.tld/robots.txt to tell search engines where to find your XML Sitemap. If you do not use fancy URL's in WordPress, you will have to create your own robots.txt file. See FAQ's.

Advantages

• The main advantage of this plugin over other XML Sitemap plugins is simplicity. No need to change file or folder permissions or move files. In fact, no options at all!
• Works out-of-the-box on shared codebase / multi-blog setups like WordPress MU, WP_OneInstall, WP Hive and others.
• Automatic priority calculation based on post age and comment/trackback activity.

Limitations

• The feed contains the front page and all posts and pages but (still) excludes category, tag and other dynamic archive pages.
• There is no way (yet) to manually set the priority of posts/pages in the sitemap but by resaving older posts from time to time, keeping the lastmod date fairly recent, you can ensure high priority for those urls.
• The number of posts listed in the sitemap is limited to 1000. This should satisfy most blogs while limiting the sitemap size on bigger blogs by stripping of the oldest posts. Please let me know if you need more than your most recent 1000 posts listed in your sitemap.xml :)

Translations

There is nothing to translate. The sitemap protocol is international, there is no options page nor any front-end output. Nothing to see here, please move along ;)

Credits

XML Sitemap Feed is based on the plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator (discontinued?) by Patrick Chia. Many thanks!