Title: EffortLess Visual Sitemap
Author: domclic
Published: <strong>June 21, 2026</strong>
Last modified: June 22, 2026

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# EffortLess Visual Sitemap

 By [domclic](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/effortless-visual-sitemap.1.0.34.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-visual-sitemap/)

## Description

Clean accordion sitemap using core sitemaps. Supports custom slugs + hide groups.

### Shortcode Attributes

 * title=”Site Map”
 * expand=”yes”
 * show_title=”no”
 * hide_groups=”authors,categories,tags” (comma-separated, lowercase)

## Installation

 1. Upload plugin
 2. Activate
 3. Use [elsmg_visual_sitemap]

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“EffortLess Visual Sitemap” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ domclic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

[Translate “EffortLess Visual Sitemap” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/effortless-visual-sitemap/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/effortless-visual-sitemap/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/effortless-visual-sitemap/)
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## Changelog

#### 1.0.34

 * Fix: update plugin name casing to EffortLess; add plugin identifier to donate
   link.

#### 1.0.33

 * Fix: rename shortcode tag from generic ‘visual_sitemap’ to prefixed ‘elsmg_visual_sitemap’
   to prevent naming conflicts (WordPress.org review requirement)

#### 1.0.32

 * Security: fix SSRF — validate sub-sitemap host before fetching; use wp_safe_remote_get()
 * Security: fix XXE — add LIBXML_NONET flag and disable entity loader on PHP 7.
   x
 * Security: filter collected URLs to same-host only (defence-in-depth against foreign
   slug leakage)
 * Fix: posts now classified accurately using WP core sitemap sub-index type metadata(
   fixes /%postname%/ sites where all posts were shown as Pages)
 * Fix: cache key now includes per-site salt (AUTH_KEY / DB_NAME) to prevent collisions
   on shared object-cache backends
 * Fix: guard $wp_rewrite->author_base against null / empty — falls back to ‘author’
 * Fix: empty category_base / tag_base option no longer produces ‘//’ prefix that
   silently misroutes all taxonomy archives
 * Fix: CSS moved to wp_enqueue_style() + wp_add_inline_style() — no more body-level
   tag after closing
 * Fix: admin notice strings now translated and properly escaped

#### 1.0.31

 * Code review fixes: cache key helper, URL grouping bug fix (leading slash on bases),
   CSS dedup guard, removed redundant save_post hook, settings callback simplified,
   Requires at least bumped to 5.9

#### 1.0.30

 * Added CLAUDE.md with codebase documentation

#### 1.0.29

 * Robust grouping with custom category/tag/author bases
 * Added hide_groups shortcode attribute

#### 1.0.28

 * WPCS/PHPCS compliance
 * Plugin Check fixes

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0.34**
 *  Last updated **2 days ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 6.2 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **7.0**
 *  PHP version ** 7.4 or higher **
 * Tags
 * [accessibility](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/accessibility/)[seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/)
   [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/)[visual sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/visual-sitemap/)
   [xml sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xml-sitemap/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/effortless-visual-sitemap/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ domclic ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/domclic/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/effortless-visual-sitemap/)

## Donate

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