Companion Sitemap Generator – Simple, Smart, and SEO-Ready vs Loco Translate

Create clean, complete, and up-to-date sitemaps for your WordPress website — automatically. Companion Sitemap Generator helps search engines and visitors explore your site with ease by generating both XML and HTML sitemaps, no coding required. Whether you run a blog, portfolio, or e-commerce store, this plugin ensures that every important page stays visible and discoverable. Features Automatic XML Sitemap: Always up-to-date and optimized for search engines including Google & Bing. User-Friendly HTML Sitemap: Create a public sitemap page to help visitors explore your site. Content Control: Include or exclude specific posts, pages, categories, taxonomies, or custom post types. Multilingual Support: Full compatibility with Polylang and other translation plugins. Built-in Robots.txt Manager: Edit crawling rules right inside WordPress — no FTP required. Lightweight & Fast: Minimal performance impact and no unnecessary scripts or bloat. Why Use Companion Sitemap Generator? Works immediately, zero configuration needed. No tracking or external services. Perfect for site owners, agencies, and developers. Active maintenance and full compatibility with the latest WordPress releases.

Loco Translate provides in-browser editing of WordPress translation files and integration with automatic translation services. It also provides Gettext/localization tools for developers, such as extracting strings and generating templates. Features include: Built-in translation editor within WordPress admin Integration with translation APIs including DeepL, Google, Lecto, Microsoft and OpenAI. Create and update language files directly in your theme or plugin Extraction of translatable strings from your source code Native MO file compilation without the need for Gettext on your system JSON (Jed) file compilation compatible with WordPress script localization Support for standard PO features including comments, references and plural forms PO source view with clickable source code references Protected language directory for saving custom translations Configurable PO file backups with diff and restore capability Built-in WordPress locale codes Official Loco WordPress plugin by Tim Whitlock. For more information please visit our plugin page. Keyboard shortcuts The PO file editor supports the following keyboard shortcuts for faster translating: Done and Next: Ctrl ↵ Next string: Ctrl ↓ Previous string: Ctrl ↑ Next untranslated: Shift Ctrl ↓ Previous untranslated: Shift Ctrl ↑ Copy from source text: Ctrl B Clear translation: Ctrl K Toggle Fuzzy: Ctrl U Save PO / compile MO: Ctrl S Toggle invisibles: Shift Ctrl I Suggest translation: Ctrl J Mac users can use ⌘ Cmd instead of Ctrl.