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Best Sitemap WordPress Plugins

6 plugins · 810K combined installs · 4.4/5 avg rating

Sitemap plugins for WordPress automatically generate XML sitemap files that list every published URL on a site — posts, pages, categories, tags, custom post types, and media — in the standardised format that Google, Bing, and other search engines use to discover and prioritise content for crawling. A well-structured sitemap is especially valuable for large sites, newly launched domains with few inbound links, or content-heavy archives where the search engine crawler might otherwise miss newer pages. SEOs managing site indexation, content publishers with thousands of posts, and developers setting up new WordPress installations as part of a technical SEO checklist all rely on sitemap plugins. The best options in this category support sitemap index files for large sites, image sitemaps, news sitemaps for Google News-approved publishers, and automatic ping notifications to search engines on new content publication.