Google XML Sitemaps Generator for WordPress ============================================================================== This generator will create a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap of your WordPress site. Currently homepage, posts, static pages, categories, archives and author pages are supported. The priority of a post depends on its comments. You can choose the way the priority is calculated in the options screen. Feel free to visit my website under www.arnebrachhold.de or contact me at himself [at] arnebrachhold [dot] de Have fun! Arne Installation: ============================================================================== 1. Upload the full directory into your wp-content/plugins directory 2. Activate the plugin at the plugin administration page 3. Open the plugin configuration page, which is located under Settings -> XML-Sitemap and customize settings like priorities and change frequencies. 4. The plugin will automatically update your sitemap of you publish a post, so theres nothing more to do :) Additional contributors: ============================================================================== Inspiration Michael Nguyen http://www.socialpatterns.com/ SQL Improvements Rodney Shupe http://www.shupe.ca/ Japanse Lang. File Hirosama http://hiromasa.zone.ne.jp/ Spanish lang. File Omi http://equipajedemano.info/ Italian lang. File Stefano Aglietti http://wordpress-it.it/ Trad.Chinese File Kirin Lin http://kirin-lin.idv.tw/ Simpl.Chinese File june6 http://www.june6.cn/ Swedish Lang. File Tobias Bergius http://tobiasbergius.se/ Czech Lang. File Peter Kahoun http://kahi.cz Finnish Lang. File Olli Jarva http://kuvat.blog.olli.jarva.fi/ Belorussian Lang. File Marcis Gasuns Bulgarian Lang. File Alexander Dichev http://dichev.com Thanks to all contributors and bug reporters! There were much more people involved in testing this plugin and reporting bugs, either by email or in the WordPress forums. Unfortunately I can't maintain a whole list here, but thanks again to everybody not listed here! Release History: ============================================================================== 2005-06-05 1.0 First release 2005-06-05 1.1 Added archive support 2005-06-05 1.2 Added category support 2005-06-05 2.0a Beta: Real Plugin! Static file generation, Admin UI 2005-06-05 2.0 Various fixes, more help, more comments, configurable filename 2005-06-07 2.01 Fixed 2 Bugs: 147 is now _e(strval($i)); instead of _e($i); 344 uses a full < ?php instead of < ? Thanks to Christian Aust for reporting this :) 2005-06-07 2.1 Correct usage of last modification date for cats and archives (thx to Rodney Shupe (http://www.shupe.ca/)) Added support for .gz generation Fixed bug which ignored different post/page priorities Should support now different wordpress/admin directories 2005-06-07 2.11 Fixed bug with hardcoded table table names instead of the $wpd vars 2005-06-07 2.12 Changed SQL Statement of the categories to get it work on MySQL 3 2005-06-08 2.2 Added language file support: - Japanese Language Files and code modifications by hiromasa (http://hiromasa.zone.ne.jp/) - German Language File by Arne Brachhold (http://www.arnebrachhold.de) 2005-06-14 2.5 Added support for external pages Added support for Google Ping Added the minimum Post Priority option Added Spanish Language File by César Gómez Martín (http://www.cesargomez.org/) Added Italian Language File by Stefano Aglietti (http://wordpress-it.it/) Added Traditional Chine Language File by Kirin Lin (http://kirin-lin.idv.tw/) 2005-07-03 2.6 Added support to store the files at a custom location Changed the home URL to have a slash at the end Required admin-functions.php so the script will work with external calls, wp-mail for example Added support for other plugins to add content to the sitemap via add_filter() 2005-07-20 2.7 Fixed wrong date format in additional pages Added Simplified Chinese Language Files by june6 (http://www.june6.cn/) Added Swedish Language File by Tobias Bergius (http://tobiasbergius.se/) 2006-01-07 3.0b Added different priority calculation modes and introduced an API to create custom ones Added support to use the Popularity Contest plugin by Alex King to calculate post priority Added Button to restore default configuration Added several links to homepage and support Added option to exclude password protected posts Added function to start sitemap creation via GET and a secret key Posts and pages marked for publish with a date in the future won't be included Improved compatiblity with other plugins Improved speed and optimized settings handling Improved user-interface Recoded plugin architecture which is now fully OOP 2006-01-07 3.0b1 Changed the way for hook support to be PHP5 and PHP4 compatible Readded support for tools like w.Bloggar Fixed "doubled-content" bug with WP2 Added xmlns to enable validation 2006-03-01 3.0b3 More performance More caching Better support for Popularity Contest and WP 2.x 2006-11-16 3.0b4 Fixed bug with option SELECTS Decreased memory usage which should solve timeout and memory problems Updated namespace to support YAHOO and MSN 2007-01-19 3.0b5 Javascripted page editor WP 2 Design YAHOO notification New status report, removed ugly logfiles Better Popularity Contest Support Fixed double backslashes on windows systems Added option to specify time limit and memory limit Added option to define a XSLT stylesheet and added a default one Fixed bug with sub-pages. Thanks to: - Mike Baptiste (http://baptiste.us), - Peter Claus Lamprecht (http://fastagent.de) - Glenn Nicholas (http://publicityship.com.au) Improved file handling, thanks to VJTD3 (http://www.VJTD3.com) WP 2.1 improvements 2007-01-23 3.0b6 Use memory_get_peak_usage instead of memory_get_usage if available Removed the usage of REQUEST_URI since it not correct in all environments Fixed that sitemap.xml.gz was not compressed Added compat function "stripos" for PHP4 (Thanks to Joseph Abboud!) Streamlined some code 2007-05-17 3.0b7 Added option to include the author pages like /author/john Small enhancements, removed stripos dependency and the added compat function Added check to not build the sitemap if importing posts Fixed missing domain parameter for translator name Fixed WP 2.1 / Pre 2.1 post / pages database changes Fixed wrong XSLT location (Thanks froosh) Added Ask.com notification Removed unused javascript 2007-07-22 3.0b8 Changed category SQL to prevent unused cats from beeing included Plugin will be loaded on "init" instead of direclty after the file has been loaded. Added support for robots.txt modification Switched YAHOO ping API from YAHOO Web Services to the "normal" ping service which doesn't require an app id Search engines will only be pinged if the sitemap file has changed 2007-09-02 3.0b9 Added tag support for WordPress 2.3 Now using post_date_gmt instead of post_date everywhere Fixed archive bug with static pages (Thanks to Peter Claus Lamprecht) Fixed some missing translation domains, thanks to Kirin Lin! Added Czech translation files for 2.7.1, thanks to Peter Kahoun (http://kahi.cz) 2007-09-04 3.0b10 Added category support for WordPress 2.3 Fixed bug with empty URLs in sitemap Repaired GET building Added more info on debug mode 2007-09-23 3.0b11 Changed mysql queries to unbuffered queries Uses MUCH less memory Fixed really stupid bug with search engine pings Option to set how many posts will be included 2007-09-24 3.0 Yeah, 3.0 Final after one and a half year ;) Removed useless functions 2007-11-03 3.0.1 Using the Snoopy HTTP client for ping requests instead of wp_remote_fopen Fixed undefined translation strings Added "safemode" for SQL which doesn't use unbuffered results (old style) Added option to run the building process in background using wp-cron Removed unnecessary function_exists, Thanks to user00265 Added links to test the ping if it failed. 2007-11-25 3.0.2 Fixed bug which caused that some settings were not saved correctly Added option to exclude pages or post by ID Restored YAHOO ping service with API key since the other one is to unreliable. (see 3.0b8) 2007-11-28 3.0.2.1 Fixed wrong XML Schema Location (Thanks to Emanuele Tessore) Added Russian Language files by Sergey http://ryvkin.ru 2007-12-30 3.0.3 Added Live Search Ping Removed some hooks which rebuilt the sitemap with every comment 2008-03-30 3.0.3.1 Added compatibility CSS for WP 2.5 2008-04-28 3.0.3.2 Improved WP 2.5 handling 2008-04-29 3.0.3.3 Fixed author pages Enhanced background building and increased delay to 15 seconds Background building is enabled by default 2008-04-28 3.1b1 Reorganized files in builder, loader and UI Added 2 step loader so only code that's needed will be loaded Improved WP 2.5 handling Secured all admin actions with nonces 2008-05-18 3.1b2 Fixed critical bug with the build in background option Added notification if a build is scheduled 2008-05-19 3.1b3 Cleaned up plugin directory and moved asset files to subfolders Fixed background building bug in WP 2.1 Removed auto-update plugin link for WP < 2.5 2008-05-22 3.1 Marked as 3.1 stable, updated documentation 2008-05-27 3.1.0.1 Extracted UI JS to external file Enabled the option to include following pages of multi-page posts Script tries to raise memory and time limit if active 2008-12-21 3.1.1 Fixed redirect issue if wp-admin is rewritten via mod_rewrite, thanks to macjoost Fixed wrong path to assets, thanks PozHonks Fixed wrong plugin URL if wp-content was renamed / redirected, thanks to wnorris Updated WP User Interface for 2.7 Various other small things 2008-12-26 3.1.2 Changed the way the stylesheet is saved (default / custom stylesheet) Sitemap is now build when page is published Removed support for static robots.txt files, this is now handled via WordPress Added compat. exceptions for WP 2.0 and WP 2.1 2009-06-07 3.1.3 Changed MSN Live Search to Bing Exclude categories also now exludes the category itself and not only the posts Pings now use the new WordPress HTTP API instead of Snoopy Fixed bug that in localized WP installations priorities could not be saved. The sitemap cron job is now cleared after a manual rebuild or after changing the config Adjusted style of admin area for WP 2.8 and refreshed icons Disabled the "Exclude categories" feature for WP 2.5.1, since it doesn't have the required functions yet 2009-06-22 3.1.4 Fixed bug which broke all pings in WP < 2.7 Added more output in debug mode if pings fail Moved global post definitions for other plugins Added small icon for ozh admin menu Added more help links in UI 2009-08-24 3.1.5 Added option to completely disable the last modification time Fixed bug regarding the use of the HTTPS url for the XSL stylesheet if the sitemap was build via the admin panel Improved handling of homepage if a single page was set for it Fixed mktime warning which appeared sometimes Fixed bug which caused inf. reloads after rebuilding the sitemap via the admin panel Improved handling of missing sitemaps files if WP was moved to another location 2009-08-31 3.1.6 Fixed PHP error "Only variables can be passed by reference" Fixed wrong URLS of multi-page posts (Thanks artstorm!) 2009-10-21 3.1.7 Added support for custom taxonomies (Thanks to Lee!) 2009-11-07 3.1.8 Improved custom taxonomy handling and fixed wrong last modification date Changed readme and backlinks Fixed fatal error in WP < 2.3 Fixed Update Notice in WP 2.8+ Added warning if blog privacy is activated Fixed custom URLs priorities were shown as 0 instead of 1 2009-11-13 3.1.9 Fixed MySQL Error if author pages were included 2009-11-23 3.2 Added function to show the actual results of a ping instead of only linking to the url Added new hook (sm_rebuild) for third party plugins to start building the sitemap Fixed bug which showed the wrong URL for the latest Google ping result Added some missing phpdoc documentation Removed hardcoded php name for sitemap file for admin urls Uses KSES for showing ping test results Ping test fixed for WP < 2.3 2009-12-16 3.2.1 Notes and update messages could interfere with the redirect after manual build Help Links in the WP context help were not shown anymore since last update IE 7 sometimes displayed a cached admin page Removed invalid link to config page from the plugin description (This resulted in a "Not enough permission error") Improved performance of getting the current plugin version with caching Updated Spanish language files 2009-12-19 3.2.2 Fixed PHP4 problems 2010-04-02 3.2.3 Fixed that all pages were not included in the sitemap if the "Uncategorized" category was excluded 2010-05-29 3.2.4 Fixed more deprecated function calls Added (GMT) to sitemap xslt template to avoid confusion with time zone Added warning and don't activate plugin if multisite mode is enabled (this mode is NOT tested yet) Changed get_bloginfo('siteurl') to get_bloginfo('url') to avoid deprecation warning Changed has_cap(10) to has_cap('level_10') to avoid deprecation warning Fixed wrong SQL statement for author pages (Ticket #1108), thanks to twoenough 2010-07-11 3.2.5 Backported Bing ping success fix from beta Added friendly hint to try out the new beta 2010-09-19 3.2.6 Removed YAHOO ping since YAHOO uses bing now Removed deprecated function call 2012-04-24 3.2.7 Fixed custom post types, thanks to clearsite of the wordpress.org forum! Fixed broken admin layout on WP 3.4 2012-08-08 3.2.8 Fixed wrong custom taxonomy URLs, thanks to ramon fincken of the wordpress.org forum! Removed ASK ping since they shut down their service. Exclude post_format taxonomy from custom taxonomy list 2013-01-11 3.2.9 Fixed security issue with change frequencies and filename of sitemap file. Exploit was only possible for admin accounts. 2013-09-28 3.3 Fixed problem with file permission checking Filter out hashs (#) in URLs 2013-11-24 3.4 Fixed deprecation warnings in PHP 5.4, thanks to Dion Hulse! 2014-03-29 4.0 No static files anymore, sitemap is created on the fly Sitemap is split-up into sub-sitemaps by month, allowing up to 50.000 posts per month Support for custom post types and custom taxonomis! 100% Multisite compatible, including by-blog and network activation. Added support for mu-plugins forced-activation (see sitemap-wpmu.php for details) Reduced server resource usage due to less content per request. New API allows other plugins to add their own, separate sitemaps. Raised min requirements to PHP 5.1 and WordPress 3.3 Note: This version will try to rename your old sitemap files to *-old.xml. If that doesn’t work, please delete them manually since no static files are needed anymore! Using only wpdb instead of unbuffered queries anymore Ping to search engines are done on WP ping Using PHP5 syntax instead of old PHP4 OOP style Added pre-loader which checks the requirements Avoid the main query of WordPress (based on plugin by Michael Adams) Avoid additional queries in post sitemaps Added custom post types Fixed include of static front page in pages index Do not list "#" permalinks from placeholder plugins Removed YAHOO pings since YAHOO doesn't have its own ping service anymore. Sitemap doesn't state it is a feed anymore Removed Ask.com ping since they shut down their service (who uses Ask anyway?) 2014-03-31 4.0.1 Fixed bug with custom post types including a "-" Changed rewrite-setup to happen on init and flushing on wp_loaded to better work with other plugins 2014-04-01 4.0.2 Fixed warning if an gzip handler is already active 2014-04-13 4.0.3 Fixed compression if an gzlib handler was already active Help regarding permalinks for Nginx users Fix with gzip compression in case there was other output before already Return 404 for HTML sitemaps if the option has been disabled 2014-04-19 4.0.4 Removed deprecated get_page call Changed last modification time of sub-sitemaps to the last modification date of the posts instead of the publish date Removed information window if the statistic option has not been activated Added link regarding new sitemap format Updated Portuguese translation, thanks to Pedro Martinho Updated German translation 2014-05-18 4.0.5 Fixed issue with empty post sitemaps (related to GMT/local time offset) Fixed some timing issues in archives Improved check for possible problems before gzipping Fixed empty Archives and Authors in case there were no posts Changed content type to text/xml to improve compatibility with caching plugins Changed query parameters to is_feed=true to improve compatibility with caching plugins Switched from using WP_Query to load posts to a custom SQL statement to avoid problems with other plugin filters Fixed bug which caused the Priority Provider to disappear in recent PHP versions Cleaned up code and renamed variables to be more readable Added caching of some SQL statements Added support feed for more help topics Added support for changing the base of the sitemap url to another URL (for WP installations in sub-folders) Changed text in XSL template to be more clear about sitemap-index and sub-sitemaps Added link to new help page Plugin will also ping with the corresponding sub-sitemap in case a post was modified Added function to manually start ping for main-sitemap or all sub-sitemaps Better checking for empty externals Updated Japanese Translation, thanks to Daisuke Takahashi 2014-06-03 4.0.6 Added option to disable automatic gzipping Fixed bug with duplicated external sitemap entries Updated language file template Don't gzip if behind Varnish Improved compatibility with caches Ping on post edit 2014-06-23 4.0.7 Better compatibility with managed GoDaddy hosting (clear alloptions cache when generating the sitemap) Improved checking if the sitemap should be gzipped or not (depending on ob levels) Removed WordPress version from the sitemap Corrected link to WordPress privacy settings Changed hook which is being used for sitemap pings 2014-09-02 4.0.7.1Added icon for the new WP Add-Plugin page Changed "Tested up to" to 4.0 2014-11-15 4.0.8 Fixed bug with excluded categories, thanks to Claus Schöffel! 2017-03-22 4.0.9 Fixed security issue with donation submission. 2018-12-18 4.1.0 Fixed security issues related to forms and external URLs 2022-04-07 4.1.1 Fixed security issues and added support for WooCommerce based sitemap 2022-04-07 4.1.2 Fixed security issues and features like support for WooCommerce based sitemap 2022-05-31 4.1.3 Added backward compatibility settings, Changed Google Tracking ID field to optional, Fixed PHP warnings 2022-06-06 4.1.4 Fixed the issue of PHP warnings, Fixed links per page issue, Improved WordPress 6.0 compatibility 2022-06-14 4.1.5 Fixed code regressions moving from git to svn 2022-11-23 4.1.6 Made the Google TID field non mandatory in order to ping Google 2022-11-24 4.1.7 Fixed custom taxonomy unit generation issue Todo: ============================================================================== - Your wishes :) License: ============================================================================== Copyright 2005 - 2018 ARNE BRACHHOLD (email : himself - arnebrachhold - de) This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA Please see license.txt for the full license. Developer Documentation ============================================================================== Adding other pages to the sitemap via other plugins This plugin uses the action system of WordPress to allow other plugins to add urls to the sitemap. Simply add your function with add_action to the list and the plugin will execute yours every time the sitemap is build. Use the static method "get_instance" to get the generator and add_url method to add your content. Sample: function your_pages() { $generatorObject = &GoogleSitemapGenerator::get_instance(); if($generatorObject!=null) $generatorObject->add_url("http://blog.uri/tags/hello/",time(),"daily",0.5); } add_action("sm_buildmap", "your_pages"); Parameters: - The URL to the page - The last modified data, as a UNIX timestamp (optional) - The Change Frequency (daily, hourly, weekly and so on) (optional) - The priority 0.0 to 1.0 (optional) Rebuilding the sitemap on request If you want to rebuild the sitemap because dynamic content from your plugin has changed, please use the "sm_rebuild" hook which is available since 3.1.9. All other methods, like calling the Build method directly are highly unrecommended and might not work anymore with the next version of the plugin. Using this hook, the sitemap plugin will take care of everything like loading the required classes and so on. Sample: do_action("sm_rebuild"); The sitemap might not be rebuild immediately, since newer versions use a background WP-Cron job by default to prevent that the user has to wait and avoid multiple rebuilds within a very short time. In case the sitemap plugin is not installed, nothing will happen and no errors will be thrown. =============================================== Adding additional PriorityProviders This plugin uses several classes to calculate the post priority. You can register your own provider and choose it at the options screen. Your class has to extend the GoogleSitemapGeneratorPrioProviderBase class which has a default constructor and a method called GetPostPriority which you can override. Look at the GoogleSitemapGeneratorPrioByPopularityContestProvider class for an example. To register your provider to the sitemap generator, use the following filter: add_filter("sm_add_prio_provider","AddMyProvider"); Your function could look like this: function AddMyProvider($providers) { array_push($providers,"MyProviderClass"); return $providers; } Note that you have to return the modified list!