XML Sitemap & Google News for WordPress

Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.

Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.

Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.

Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.

Google News Sitemap

Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.

Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.

Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).

Supports custom post types.

Limit inclusion of certain post categories.

Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.

Pro Extensions XML Sitemap Advanced

Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.

Sitemap notifier log

Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)

Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.

Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives

Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex

Google News Advanced

Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.

Sitemap notifier log

Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.

Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.

Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.

Privacy / GDPR This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.

Data that is published

An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs.

An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.

A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.

Data that is transmitted

when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.

Contribute If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick rating or helping other users out on the support forum.

If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to translate it into your language or contribute code on Github.

Credits XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.

NOTES:

If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated.

On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.