Table of Contents Plus vs XML Sitemap & Google News

A powerful yet user friendly plugin that automatically creates a context specific index or table of contents (TOC) for long pages (and custom post types). More than just a table of contents plugin, this plugin can also output a sitemap listing pages and/or categories across your entire site. Built from the ground up and with Wikipedia in mind, the table of contents by default appears before the first heading on a page. This allows the author to insert lead-in content that may summarise or introduce the rest of the page. It also uses a unique numbering scheme that doesn’t get lost through CSS differences across themes. This plugin is a great companion for content rich sites such as content management system oriented configurations. That said, bloggers also have the same benefits when writing long structured articles. Includes an administration options panel where you can customise settings like display position, define the minimum number of headings before an index is displayed, other appearance, and more. For power users, expand the advanced options to further tweak its behaviour – eg: exclude undesired heading levels like h5 and h6 from being included; disable the output of the included CSS file; adjust the top offset and more. Using shortcodes, you can override default behaviour such as special exclusions on a specific page or even to hide the table of contents altogether. Prefer to include the index in the sidebar? Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the TOC+ to your desired sidebar and position. Custom post types are supported, however, auto insertion works only when the_content() has been used by the custom post type. Each post type will appear in the options panel, so enable the ones you want. Collaborate, participate, fork this plugin on Github. Shortcodes The plugin was designed to be as seamless and painfree as possible and did not require you to insert a shortcode for operation. However, using the shortcode allows you to fully control the position of the table of contents within your page. The following shortcodes are available with this plugin. When attributes are left out for the shortcodes below, they will fallback to the settings you defined under Settings > TOC+. The following are detailed in the help tab. [toc] Lets you generate the table of contents at the preferred position. Useful for sites that only require a TOC on a small handful of pages. Supports the following attributes: “label”: text, title of the table of contents “no_label”: true/false, shows or hides the title “wrapping”: text, either “left” or “right” “heading_levels”: numbers, this lets you select the heading levels you want included in the table of contents. Separate multiple levels with a comma. Example: include headings 3, 4 and 5 but exclude the others with heading_levels="3,4,5" “class”: text, enter CSS classes to be added to the container. Separate multiple classes with a space. “start”: number, show when this number of headings are present in the content. [no_toc] Allows you to disable the table of contents for the current post, page, or custom post type. [sitemap] Produces a listing of all pages and categories for your site. You can use this on any post, page or even in a text widget. Note that this will not include an index of posts so use sitemap_posts if you need this listing. [sitemap_pages] Lets you print out a listing of only pages. The following attributes are accepted: “heading”: number between 1 and 6, defines which html heading to use “label”: text, title of the list “no_label”: true/false, shows or hides the list heading “exclude”: IDs of the pages or categories you wish to exclude “exclude_tree”: ID of the page or category you wish to exclude including its all descendants “child_of”: “current” or page ID of the parent page. Defaults to 0 which includes all pages. [sitemap_categories] Same as [sitemap_pages] but for categories. [sitemap_posts] This lets you print out an index of all published posts on your site. By default, posts are listed in alphabetical order grouped by their first letters. The following attributes are accepted: “order”: text, either ASC or DESC “orderby”: text, popular options include “title”, “date”, “ID”, and “rand”. See WP_Query for a list. “separate”: true/false (defaults to true), does not separate the lists by first letter when set to false. Use the following CSS classes to customise the appearance of your listing: toc_sitemap_posts_section toc_sitemap_posts_letter toc_sitemap_posts_list Credits This plugin was created and maintained for many years by conjur3r. We are grateful for all the hard work he put in and we are excited to continue to build on that!

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created. NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back! Features Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps. Add a Google News Sitemap. Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation. Add custom robots.txt rules. XML Sitemap Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index. Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news. Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps. Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps. Add a custom sitemap with external URLs. Add external sitemaps. 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.