Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin Directory
Sitemap Generator is a WordPress app, with a 3.7 average rating from 23 reviews, as of July 9, 2026.
Sitemap Generator is a WordPress Plugin Directory app by Marco Beierer. With a rating of 3.7★ from 23 reviews.
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Sitemap Generator is a mixed-rating WordPress app with a limited review volume. It is listed in the Sitemap category on WordPress Plugin Directory, which AppRanks treats as the canonical taxonomy node for ranking and competitor comparison. 23 reviews put it in the early-traction tier — useful for early-stage stores willing to be on the leading edge. Early-traction review counts are sensitive to single launch periods or feature events, so a 30-day re-check before bigger commitments often resolves whether the trend is sustained. Paid-only pricing means evaluating fit on the marketplace listing or via the developer's documentation before installing. AppRanks tracks rating, review count, pricing tier, and category position daily — the figures on this page reflect the most recent scrape from the canonical WordPress Plugin Directory listing.
Pros
- +Published by Marco Beierer — established developer track record
Cons
- −Average rating below 4.0 (3.7★) — read recent low-star reviews before committing
- −Limited review base (23) — ratings can shift significantly with new feedback
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How Sitemap Generator works
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The Sitemap Generator uses an external service to crawl your website and create a XML sitemap of your website. The generator works thus for every plugin out of the box. The computation costs for your website is also very low because the crawler acts like a normal visitor, who visits all pages of your site once.
If you host your website on a dedicated server, you may not need this plugin, because you should have enough resources to generate your sitemap on your server. But if you host your website in a shared environment (as the most WordPress users do), it could be a good idea to outsource the generation of your sitemap to an external service like this plugin uses to generate the sitemap. This way it is guaranteed that the speed of your website is not affected for your visitors during the generation of the sitemap.
Limitations of the free version The base version of the Sitemap Generator is free but limited. You can create sitemaps for websites with up to 500 URLs. Advanced features like image or video support aren’t available in the free version.
The service cannot be offered free of charge for larger websites because the crawling is done by servers operated by the plugin developer and renting and maintaining these servers isn’t cheap.
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Features
Simple setup.
Works out of the box with all WordPress plugins.
Low computation costs for your webserver.
Technical Features
Respects your robots.txt file (also the crawl-delay directive).
You could use the user-agent MB-SiteCrawler to control the crawler.
Support for robots (noindex) meta elements.
Adds nearly all indexable filetypes (for example .pdf, .xls, .doc) to the sitemap.
See the document Sitemap Generator Data on my website for more information.
Additional Technical Features of the Pro Version
Generation of image sitemaps.
Generation of video sitemaps.
Currently HTML5 video elements and embedded YouTube videos are supported.
Upcoming Technical Features
Support for HTML5 picture elements in image sitemaps.
Automatic daily creation of sitemaps.
Technical Requirements
cURL 7.18.1 or higher.
Current PHP versions supported by WordPress should provide a compatible cURL version in most hosting environments.
OpenSSL 0.9.8f or higher.
Data Aggregation and Indexable File Types I have published a detailed document about how the Sitemap Generator aggregates the data for the generation of sitemaps and which file types are getting indexed on my website.
Sitemap Generator Data
Warnings If you already have an existing sitemap.xml in your WordPress root directory, this file would be overwritten. It is thus recommended to backup your existing sitemap.xml file before using the Sitemap Generator. I also have not tested the generator on Windows webspace. You should also access the sitemap.xml after the generation finished and check if everything is fine.
Pre-Installation Verification Test If you like to test if the Sitemap Generator works fine with your website before you will install the plugin, you could use the Online Sitemap Generator on my website, which uses to same technology as the plugin to generate the sitemaps.
Use of an External Server The Sitemap Generator uses an external server, operated by the developer of the plugin, to crawl your website and detect broken links. This means, that there is some communication between your website and the server. The only data that is communicated to the external server by your website is the URL of your website and the fact that you are using WordPress. The server than crawlers your website (as a normal visitor does) and answers with the generated sitemap.
Category rankings
As of Jul 9, 2026- Image sitemap#0of 2Top 1%
- Sitemap#0of 50Top 1%
- Video sitemap#0of 4Top 1%
- Xml sitemap#0of 26Top 1%
- SEO#90of 851Top 11%
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Competitors & alternatives
Sitemap Generatordoesn't have curated competitor matchups yet. Other tracked sitemap apps on WordPress:
Where Sitemap Generator stands in the Sitemap category
Sitemap Generator ranks #0 of 50 apps in the Sitemap category, placing it in the top 1% of the listing.
Frequently asked questions
What is Sitemap Generator?
Sitemap Generator is an app for WordPress. It currently holds a 3.7-star rating from 23 merchant reviews, and AppRanks has been tracking its public marketplace data on a daily refresh cycle. It is listed under the Sitemap category on AppRanks, where you can see its current category position, review-velocity trend, and how it compares against the top alternatives in the same space. Developed by Marco Beierer.
Who uses Sitemap Generator?
Currently around 3,000 active stores have installed Sitemap Generator. Its review base is still building, which usually maps to early-stage merchants and stores piloting a new workflow. It is part of the Sitemap category on WordPress.