Title: Gmcfuerte XML Sitemap Author: GMC FUERTE Published: October 5, 2026 Last modified: October 5, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap.svg) # Gmcfuerte XML Sitemap By [GMC FUERTE](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gmcfuerte/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap.1.0.4.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/) ## Description WordPress has generated a sitemap since version 5.5, and for many sites that is genuinely enough. This plugin is for the sites where it is not. Core’s `/wp-sitemap.xml` lists posts, pages, public custom post types, categories, tags and author archives, and gives each entry a `` and a . That is the whole of it. Core implements none of the sitemap extensions, so if you need search engines to see your images, your videos or your news content as such, core cannot express it. This plugin serves `/sitemap.xml` and adds exactly the parts core leaves out: #### What this adds that WordPress core does not * **Image sitemap** — `` entries for the images in your content, so Google Images has a URL list instead of having to discover them by crawling. Core has no image sitemap at all. * **Video sitemap** — `` entries with thumbnail, title, description and player URL for embedded and self-hosted video. The post’s featured image is the thumbnail, and Google rejects a video entry that has none, so posts without a featured image are left out. Core has no video sitemap. * **Google News sitemap** — a `` sitemap of the last 48 hours, up to 1,000 posts, in the shape Google News expects. Core has no news sitemap. * **hreflang alternates** — `` inside each URL entry, for sites translated with **Polylang** or **WPML** (those two are what the plugin reads translations from). Core emits no alternates. * **`` and ``** — core deliberately emits neither. They are hints, and the major engines mostly ignore them, but some crawlers and internal tools still read them. * **Served at `/sitemap.xml`** — the conventional path, rather than core’s /wp- sitemap.xml. * **Exclusions from the admin screen** — exclude individual post IDs or whole post types without writing a filter. If none of the above matters to your site, core’s sitemap is fine and you do not need this plugin. That is a genuine recommendation, not modesty. #### Privacy and network use This plugin makes **no external network requests whatsoever**. It contacts no API, sends no telemetry, pings no search engine, checks no remote server for updates, and loads no font, script or image from a third-party domain. It reads your database and writes XML. Nothing leaves your server. It also writes no file anywhere outside its own plugin directory, and deletes no file at all — not on uninstall, not ever. Your site root is left exactly as it was found. #### Working alongside core Publishing two sitemaps for one site is not useful, so by default this plugin switches core’s `/wp-sitemap.xml` off. If you would rather keep both, untick “Disable the WordPress core sitemap” in the settings. ## Installation 1. Install the plugin through **Plugins Add New**, or upload the plugin folder to`/ wp-content/plugins/`. 2. Activate it through the **Plugins** menu. 3. Go to **Settings XML Sitemap** and choose what to include. 4. Submit `https://your-site.tld/sitemap.xml` in Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools. Your sitemap is linked from `robots.txt` automatically. ## FAQ ### WordPress already makes a sitemap. Why would I install this? For image, video, news or hreflang entries, which core does not produce at all. If you only need a list of your posts, pages and terms, core already does that and you should keep using it. ### Does it replace the core sitemap? By default yes — it turns off `/wp-sitemap.xml` so your site publishes one sitemap instead of two. You can turn that behaviour off in the settings and run both. ### Does it work with another SEO plugin that also makes a sitemap? Technically yes, but you should not run two sitemap generators at once. Turn the other plugin’s sitemap off, or this one. ### My sitemap returns a 404. Go to **Settings Permalinks** and click Save Changes. That regenerates the rewrite rules. If your permalinks are set to “Plain”, pretty sitemap URLs are not available at all — the settings screen shows the query-string URL that works instead. ### Does it send my data anywhere? No. The plugin makes no external requests of any kind. See “Privacy and network use” above. ### Will it delete my existing sitemap.xml file? No. This plugin never deletes a file, and never writes one outside its own directory. If a static `sitemap.xml` file already exists in your site root, your web server will serve that file instead of this plugin’s output — delete or rename it yourself if you want the plugin’s sitemap to take over. ### What is the maximum number of URLs per sitemap? 50,000, the limit in the sitemap protocol. The content, image and video sitemaps split at that point into numbered files (`sitemap-content-2.xml` and so on) listed in the index. The category, tag and author sitemaps are single files and stop at the same 50,000; the news sitemap stops at 1,000, which is Google’s own limit for it. ### Why does the index list fewer sitemaps than I switched on? Because the index lists only the sitemaps that have something in them. Switch the video sitemap on with no videos published and no `sitemap-videos.xml` appears in the index — an index entry pointing at an empty file is what makes Search Console report “Sitemap is empty”. Publish a video and it appears by itself, at the latest when the cache expires. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Gmcfuerte XML Sitemap” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ GMC FUERTE ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/gmcfuerte/) [Translate “Gmcfuerte XML Sitemap” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 1.0.4 * Fix a fatal error when saving or deleting a post (including WordPress’s own auto- drafts) and when serving any sitemap. * Uninstall now also removes the two cache revision options the plugin stores. #### 1.0.3 * Clarify intentional XML, database maintenance and WPML API usage for Plugin Check. * Use the full plugin prefix for settings template variables. #### 1.0.2 * Document the XML response as already-generated XML for output escaping review. #### 1.0.1 * Sanitize conditional request headers and use WordPress.org translation loading. #### 1.0.0 * First release. ## Meta * Version **1.0.4** * Last updated **23 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 5.6 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.3** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Tags * [image sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/image-sitemap/)[seo](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/seo/) [sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/)[video sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/video-sitemap/) [xml sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/xml-sitemap/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/gmcfuerte-xml-sitemap/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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