Sitemap Generator

1.8.0

Release Date – 28th May, 2026

• Made the Sitemap Generator available again including the free version.
• Updated compatibility information for WordPress 7.0.
• Modernized settings registration for current WordPress versions.
• Added nonce and capability checks to the admin AJAX proxy.

1.7.7

Release Date – 14th January, 2023

• Out of service info.

1.7.6

Release Date – 14th January, 2023

• Out of service info.

1.7.5

Release Date – 24th October, 2022

• Added paywall.

1.7.4

Release Date – 1st August, 2022

• Updated readme.
• Changed name.

1.7.3

Release Date – 1st August, 2022

• Added paid version info.
• Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

1.7.2

Release Date – 2nd August, 2021

• Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

1.7.1

Release Date – 20st October, 2020

• Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

1.7.0

Release Date – 22st October, 2019

• Features
  • Completely rewritten user interface.
    • Uniform on all platforms (WordPress, online tool, WebsiteTools and Joomla).
  • Sitemap backup on Sitemap Generator servers (pro only).
  • Download function to redownload sitemap from last run (pro only).
  • Stop generation process.
  • Show more detailed stats after generation has finished.
• Usability
  • Autoresume without an extra click when already running.
  • Load stats of last generation process when Sitemap Generator is opened (pro only).
  • Added WordFence warning with instructions to solve issues with WordFence.
• Config
  • Set default value for Reference Count Threshold to 5 for new and old installations.

1.6.2

Release Date – 1st July, 2019

• Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

1.6.1

Release Date – 1st March, 2019

• Updated ‘Tested up to’ information.

1.6.0

Release Date – 8th September, 2018

• New option to disable cookie support.
• New option to remove query params from URLs.

1.5.2

Release Date – 17th August, 2018

• 1.5.1 used a debugging URL as default.

1.5.1

Release Date – 17th August, 2018

• Made Ajax requests more robust by implementing 3 retries if requests fail due to temporary issues.
• Removed a call to the error_log function.

1.5.0

Release Date – 17th August, 2018

• Added a new option “Reference Count Threshold” to exclude images and videos that are embedded on multiple pages.
• Fixed some error handling bugs in Ajax requests.
• Small improvements of crawler.

1.4.3

Release Date – 14th April, 2018

• Force the use of IPv4, because IPv6 does not work for all configurations, probably due to a bug in some curl versions or the PHP curl integration.
• Multiple crawler improvements.
  • Added cookie support.

1.4.2

Release Date – 11th February, 2018

• Updated compatibility information (tested up to WordPress 4.9).

1.4.1

Release Date – 11th February, 2018

• Improvements to the crawler.
• Bugfixes
  • Fixed returned status code of failing proxy requests.
  • fixed call to wp_die()

1.4.0

Release Date – 12th July, 2016

• Added an option to ignore embedded content (for example images).
• Added an option to define the maximum number of concurrent connections.
• Bugfixes
  • Implemented Cache-Control for AJAX requests.
  • Fixed the PHP short tag issue.
  • Specific error message if write to file failed.

1.3.1

Release Date – 1st February, 2016

• Improved cURL error messages.
• Bugfix: Replaced get_site_url() with get_home_url(), which referes to the option “Site Address (URL)”.

1.3.0

Release Date – 11th November, 2015

• Implemented crawl and sitemap stats.
• Implemented error message if backend is down.
• Implemented better error messages to detect problems on startup.
• Technical changes
  • Renamed global JS vars (namespacing).
  • Removed german language strings.
  • Moved some vars to a separate file to use the same JS file with multiple CMS.

1.2.5

Release Date – 27th September, 2015

• Implemented better error message if token is invalid or has expired.
• Implemented better error message if limit is reached.

1.2.4

Release Date – 27th September, 2015

• Another bug fix release for an issue with PHP 5.3.

1.2.3

Release Date – 27th September, 2015

• Bug fix release, one file was missing in the previous release.

1.2.2

Release Date – 27th September, 2015

• Better error reporting if website is not reachable.
• Fixed bug that external files (for example pdf files) were added to the sitemap.
• Added a check for the correct cURL version.
• Added a check if the plugin is used in a local development environment.

1.2.1

Release Date – 31th August, 2015

• Added support for title and caption in image sitemaps.
• Added support for tags, view count and region restriction of YouTube videos in video sitemap.
• Removed CDATA sections and escape the content instead in image and video sitemaps.
• Added a link to the Sitemap Generator Data overview page in the readme.

1.2.0

Release Date – 28th August, 2015

• Undone change introduced in 1.1.0: Pages blocked by the robots.txt file are not parsed from now on as in versions older than 1.1.0. I rethought this point and think crawlers should respect the robots.txt, no matter which purpose the crawler has.
• Support for custom user-agent group (MB-SiteCrawler) in robots.txt.
• The video sitemap supports YouTube videos from now on. The data is fetched through the YouTube Data API.
• Some text changes in the plugins backend.

1.1.0

Release Date – 21th August, 2015

Please note that the plugin was not changed, just the backend service.

• Images which are linked to, but not embedded in a page, are now shown in the image sitemap to give them some context. In earlier version these images were listed as normal URLs.
• Pages, blocked by the robots.txt file, were not parsed in earlier version. This is fixed now. They still don’t get listed in the sitemap, but the links on these pages are detected.
• Fixed an issue with the evaluation of the HTML base tag. A base tag href value with a trailing slash was not evaluated correctly before.
• Some smaller bug fixes and performance improvements.

1.0.4

Release Date – 16th August, 2015

• Bug fix release for issue in 1.0.3.

1.0.3

Release Date – 16th August, 2015

• Changed menu position to a more unique one.
• Added a message to indicate if the URL limit was reached.

1.0.2

Release Date – 10th August, 2015

• Added information about the use of an external server to the readme file.
• Use the native WordPress functions to load the JavaScript files.

1.0.1

Release Date – 8th August, 2015

• Changed license from AGPL to GPL.
• Added a FAQ section.
• Added a note to the plugin admin interface.

1.0.0

Release Date – 7th August, 2015

• Added support for video sitemaps.

1.0.0-beta.5

Release Date – 7th August, 2015

• Added support for nearly all indexable filetypes.
• Added support for robots (noindex) meta elements.

1.0.0-beta.4

Release Date – 1st August, 2015

• Added support for image sitemaps.

1.0.0-beta.3

Release Date – 30th May, 2015

• Implemented support for authorization tokens.

1.0.0-beta.2

Release Date – 16th May, 2015

• Improved the user interface.

1.0.0-beta.1

Release Date – 9th May, 2015

• Initial release.