Hierarchical HTML Sitemap vs Shortcodes Ultimate – Content Elements

Hierarchical HTML Sitemap offers visitors an easy and intuitive way to navigate your blog. This plugin generates an HTML sitemap of your WordPress blog. It displays a list of posts grouped by hierarchically sorted categories. By using a shortcode, you can display it on a page or anywhere else that supports shortcodes, such as a widget. The output does not include CSS or JavaScript files. It is pure HTML, ready to inherit or receive your theme’s styles. Features Short and easy shortcode: [htmlmap]. Categories sorted hierarchically. Displays posts and/or pages. Can exclude specified posts, pages, or categories. Displays category navigation above the posts list. Displays post publication dates. Clean HTML without scripts. Does not enqueue unnecessary JavaScript or CSS files. No ads or author links in the output. Usage and options The [htmlmap] shortcode accepts these optional attributes: exclude: post or page IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude="445,446"]. exclude_cat: category IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude_cat="1,34"]. showpages: display the list of pages, for example [htmlmap showpages]. hidecloud: hide category navigation, for example [htmlmap hidecloud]. showdescription: display category descriptions, for example [htmlmap showdescription]. hidedate: hide post publication dates, for example [htmlmap hidedate]. hidecount: hide post counts in category headings, for example [htmlmap hidecount]. You can combine attributes, for example: [htmlmap exclude="3546,7398" exclude_cat="1,34" showpages hidecloud] HTML structure and CSS classes The shortcode preserves existing category heading IDs (cat_ ), the category navigation class (cat), and the empty-category class (null). Additional classes are available for theme customisation: htmlmap-post-list: each category’s post list. htmlmap-post: each post list item. htmlmap-children: the list item containing child categories. htmlmap-empty-category: added alongside the legacy null class. htmlmap-category-description: a displayed category description. htmlmap-page-list: the optional pages list. htmlmap-page: each page list item. Child categories are rendered after their parent category’s posts inside a dedicated list item, rather than inside the final post item. Extra GitHub repository for issues and contributions.

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