Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google

2.2.9 – 2026-03-05

• Saving autoload options removed for better performance

2.2.8 – 2026-02-12

• WordPress 6.9.1 compatible
• Pro Version: Check YouTube & Vimeo API keys issue fixed

2.2.7 – 2026-02-06

• Additional URLs appearance improved
• Saving Custom Sitemap Options on Media page issue fixed
• Media Post Custom Sitemap Priority and Frequency options implemented

2.2.6 – 2026-01-25

• Media Pages added to main XML Sitemap

2.2.5 – 2026-01-08

• Image Sitemap: Disable XSL Stylesheet option added
• Video Sitemap: Disable XSL Stylesheet option added
• Admin notices are hidden on Settings pages

2.2.4 – 2025-12-25

• Dashboard UI/UX improved

2.2.3 – 2025-12-03

• WordPress 6.9 compatible
• Wizard design updated

2.2.2 – 2025-11-22

• Multilingual Sitemap: Sitemap URLs trailing slash issue fixed. Thanks to @sunlight1976

2.2.1 – 2025-11-07

• Top Navigation UI/UX improved
• Admin Settings page UI/UX improved
• WordPress 6.8.3 compatible
• Minor bug fixes

2.2.0 – 2025-10-20

• New Admin Panel Design
• Multilingual Sitemap: Home page URL trailing slash issue fixed

2.1.17 – 2025-10-08

• Multilingual Sitemap: Default language issue fixed

2.1.16 – 2025-09-28

• UI/UX improvements

2.1.15 – 2025-09-10

• Spanish, French, Portuguese, Polish translations added

2.1.13 – 2025-08-29

• Minor bug fixes

2.1.12 – 2025-08-12

• WordPress 6.8.2 compatible

2.1.11 – 2025-07-05

• Troubleshoot section added to Settings page
• WP CLI instructions section added to Settings page
• Pro Version: Cron Job feature added
• sgg_sitemap_exclude_post_ids and sgg_sitemap_exclude_term_ids filters added for customizing Exclude Post and Term IDs
• sgg_sitemap_include_only_term_ids filter added for customizing Include only Term IDs

2.1.10 – 2025-06-17

• Media Sitemap: BeeTheme compatibility added, as it uses post_meta for storing content
• Media Sitemap: Post Parent URL issue fixed
• Media Sitemap: Noindex Posts excluded from Image & Video Sitemaps

2.1.9 – 2025-05-22

• Sitemap Generator CLI command added
• template_redirect action replaced with parse_request action for early execution of Sitemaps

2.1.8 – 2025-05-18

• Old media_sitemap Content checks removed

2.1.7 – 2025-05-16

• Creation of dynamic property is deprecated PHP error fixed. Thanks to @track77 and @btreece84

2.1.5 – 2025-05-15

• SEO Framework noindex Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts excluded from Sitemap
• SEO Framework noindex Categories and Taxonomies excluded from Sitemap
• Image Sitemap: AVIF image support added
• Google News: SEO Framework custom title support added
• Image Sitemap & Video Sitemap settings separatedy
• WordPress 6.8.1 compatible

2.1.4 – 2025-04-24

• Google News: xml_sitemap_google_news_title filter added for customizing Title
• Child Posts URL issue fixed

2.1.3 – 2025-04-15

• WordPress 6.8 compatible

2.1.2 – 2025-03-18

• Caching Chunk Size increased

2.1.1 – 2025-03-18

• Minor bug fixes

2.1.0 – 2025-03-14

• Image Sitemap: Multiple Sitemaps (Per Paged) by Sitemap Index feature added
• Image Sitemap: Hide Image Previews feature added
• Video Sitemap: Multiple Sitemaps (Per Paged) by Sitemap Index feature added
• Media Sitemaps: Database Queries optimized
• Media Sitemaps: Smart Caching feature implemented for faster loading
• xml_sitemap_disable_post_meta_fields filter added for disabling Post Meta Fields
• xml_sitemap_disable_post_meta__exclude_sitemap, xml_sitemap_disable_post_meta__priority, xml_sitemap_disable_post_meta__frequency filters added for disabling Post Meta Fields

2.0.8 – 2025-03-02

• Pro Version: XML Sitemaps > Include only selected Categories & Tags feature added
• Pro Version: Google News > Include only selected Categories & Tags feature added

2.0.7 – 2025-02-23

• Pro Version: Video Sitemap > X (Twitter) video support added
• WordPress 6.7.2 compatible

2.0.6 – 2025-02-10

• sgg_sitemap_colors filter added for customizing Sitemap Colors
• Pro Version: Sitemap Colors feature added with Color Pickers
• Pro Version: Toggle Branding Marks feature added

2.0.5 – 2025-01-07

• Additional URLs: Add Bulk URLs feature added

2.0.4 – 2024-12-07

• get_category_link() replaced with get_term_link() for Taxonomy URLs
• Compatibility with Custom Permalinks plugins improved

2.0.3 – 2024-11-22

• Archive Sitemap wp_ table prefix issue fixed. Thanks to @jdorner
• xml_sitemaps_site_url filter added for customizing Site URL
• WordPress 6.7.1 compatible

2.0.2 – 2024-11-13

• WordPress 6.7 compatible

2.0.1 – 2024-11-04

• Sitemap Index: Showing Single Sitemap issue fixed. Thanks to @waldub
• Image Sitemap: Duplicating Image Sizes removed

2.0.0 – 2024-10-14

• Setup Wizard added

1.9.12 – 2024-09-26

• Multiple Sitemap queries improved

1.9.11 – 2024-09-25

• WPML Category Sitemap issue fixed. Thanks to @waldub
• WPML compatibility improved

1.9.10 – 2024-09-12

• WordPress 6.6.2 compatible
• Media Sitemap: Outputting shortcodes issue fixed

1.9.9 – 2024-09-03

• Pro Version: Video Sitemap > Vimeo video support added
• WPML language names as parameter issue fixed

1.9.8 – 2024-07-29

• WordPress 6.6.1 compatible
• Exclude Categories and Tags query optimized

1.9.7 – 2024-07-18

• pre_get_posts hook replaced with template_redirect action

1.9.6 – 2024-07-16

• WordPress 6.6 compatible
• sitemap query var renamed to inner_sitemap

1.9.5 – 2024-07-09

• Paginated Sitemap with Multilingual plugins issue fixed
• Polylang displaying Not Translatable Post Types issue fixed. Thanks to Adrien Tay Pamart

1.9.4 – 2024-06-24

• Adding Custom Sitemaps for Sitemap Index feature added
• Static Sitemap File detector added
• sgg_additional_index_sitemaps filter data structure changed

1.9.3 – 2024-06-18

• Links Per Page issue with Plain Permalinks fixed

1.9.2 – 2024-06-17

• Sitemap Index: Separate Links Per Page feature added
• Links Per Page settings added
• Default Sitemap Structure changed to Sitemap Index
• Include Custom Post Types issue fixed
• WordPress 6.5.4 compatible

1.9.1 – 2024-06-04

• Excluding Archives from Sitemap issue fixed
• Excluding Pages from Sitemap issue fixed

1.9.0 – 2024-05-29

• Multilingual Sitemap Index with all language Sitemaps aadded
• Multilingual Sitemaps duplicating URLs issues fixed
• Multilingual Sitemaps caching issue fixed
• Authors Sitemap displaying none-author Users issue fixed

1.8.14 – 2024-05-22

• Empty Additional URLs warning fixed

1.8.13 – 2024-05-22

• Sitemap Index Queries optimized
• Conflict with YOAST SEO Sitemaps fixed

1.8.12 – 2024-05-16

• sgg_additional_index_sitemaps filter implemented for adding Custom Sitemaps to Sitemap Index

1.8.11 – 2024-05-08

• WordPress 6.5.3 compatible

1.8.10 – 2024-04-23

• Webserver Configuration section added for NGINX servers

1.8.9 – 2024-04-11

• WordPress 6.5.2 compatible
• Child Posts incorrect URL issue fixed

1.8.8 – 2024-04-04

• XML Sitemap: Enable/Disable Sitemap feature added
• Taxonomy, Archive, and Author queries optimized

1.8.7 – 2024-03-28

• Google News: Include Older Posts feature added
• Google News: Posts older than 48 hours excluded from Sitemap by default
• XML Sitemaps, Google News, Image Sitemap, Video Sitemap: Queries optimized
• Meta Box styles conflict fixed

1.8.6 – 2024-03-19

• WordPress 6.5 compatible
• Plugin Preview enabled
• Language files updated

1.8.5 – 2024-03-15

• IndexNow Check API Key feature added
• IndexNow Change API Key feature added
• Rank Math SEO noindex Pages, Posts excluded from Sitemaps
• Rank Math SEO noindex Categories, Taxonomies excluded from Sitemaps
• sgg_sitemap_exclude_single_term filter added for excluding single Term from Sitemap
• Deprecated Ping Search Engines feature removed
• Deprecated Ping Google News feature removed
• Deprecated Ping Google News when Post Status changed option removed

1.8.4 – 2024-03-04

• Added Settings Patch for Custom Post Type and Taxonomies
• PHP 8.2 deprecated creating Dynamic Properties error fixed
• Media Sitemap Settings dependency logic improved

1.8.3 – 2024-02-23

• FooGallery compatibility added
• sgg_indexnow_api_key filter added for customizing IndexNow API Key

1.8.2 – 2024-02-21

• IndexNow Protocol added for indexing Microsoft Bing, Seznam.cz, Naver, and Yandex
• IndexNow automatically ping feature added when Post published and saved

1.8.1 – 2024-02-14

• Generating XML Sitemap issue fixed

1.8.0 – 2024-02-14

• Added new features:
  — Import Settings
  — Export Settings
• sgg_disable_xml_sitemap filter added for disabling XML Sitemap
• Add Post Meta Box applied only for Public Post Types
• Gutenberg Plugin Sidebar error fixed

1.7.11 – 2024-02-08

• Documentation links added

1.7.10 – 2024-01-26

• Last Modified Datetime field added to Additional URLs
• xml_sitemap_news_language filter added for customizing Google News Language

1.7.9 – 2024-01-18

• Image Sitemap: Skipping URLs with query parameters issue fixed
• PHP 8.2 compatibility improved

1.7.8 – 2024-01-12

• xml_sitemap_include_post filter added for customizing Post inclusion in Sitemap
• Pro Version: Page/Post Custom Sitemap Options feature added:
  — Exclude from Sitemap
  — Post Priority
  — Post Frequency

1.7.7 – 2024-01-05

• Readme updated

1.7.6 – 2024-01-03

• UI/UX improvements

1.7.5 – 2023-12-22

• sitemap_xsl_template_path filter added for customizing XSL Template path

1.7.4 – 2023-12-15

• Sitemap Index URLs issue with Plain Permalinks fixed
• Choose Sitemap Structure settings improved
• WordPress 6.4.2 compatible

1.7.3 – 2023-12-04

• All pre_get_posts filters removed from Sitemap Queries
• Inner Sitemaps displaying issue with other Sitemap plugins fixed

1.7.2 – 2023-11-15

• Include Pages option added to Google News Settings
• Page, Post, Term Priority and Frequency filters added, thanks to @mosterojei

1.7.1 – 2023-11-10

• WordPress 6.4.1 compatible
• Taxonomy Settings removed from Google News
• Pro Version: Exclude Categories and Tags feature added. Thanks to @vladynol

1.7.0 – 2023-11-07

• Image Sitemap added to Sitemap Index
• Video Sitemap added to Sitemap Index
• Adding Google News to robots.txt feature added
• Adding Image and Video Sitemaps to robots.txt feature added

1.6.7 – 2023-11-06

• WordPress 6.4 compatible
• Settings issue for WordPress versions older than 5.5.0 fixed. Thanks to @stephanie0000

1.6.6 – 2023-10-30

• Minor bug fixes

1.6.5 – 2023-10-06

• Sitemap issue with Plain Permalinks fixed
• SimpleXMLElement replaced with DOMDocument for better performance

1.6.4 – 2023-10-04

• Multilingual Sitemap URLs for WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress outputted in Settings
• TranslatePress removing XSL Template issue fixed. Thanks to @sunlight1976

1.6.3 – 2023-09-28

• Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index feature moved from Pro to Free version
• PolyLang secondary languages issue fixed
• TranslatePress compatibility improved

1.6.2 – 2023-09-19

• get_home_url() changed to get_site_url() for XSL templates. Thanks to @bretzsofas
• Disabled auto-generated WP Sitemaps

1.6.1 – 2023-09-11

• Readme updated

1.6.0 – 2023-09-01

• WordPress 6.3.1 compatible
• Pro Version: Split Sitemaps into multiple Sitemap by Sitemap Index feature added
• Pro Version: Image Sitemap – Exclude Broken Images feature added

1.5.6 – 2023-08-16

• Admin Notices added

1.5.5 – 2023-08-07

• WordPress 6.3 compatible
• Pro Version: HTML Sitemap Widget – Show Featured Image, Show Excerpt, Show Date, Date Format options added

1.5.4 – 2023-08-01

• Video Sitemap: Player_loc URL escaping issue fixed. Thanks to @track77

1.5.3 – 2023-07-20

• Conflict with older Pro Version fixed

1.5.2 – 2023-07-13

• Google News: metadata is removed for posts older than 48 hours. Thanks to @dima2duo
• Video Sitemap: Video Link combined with Video Title for better view
• Video Sitemap: Description length is limited to 300 characters for better view

1.5.1 – 2023-07-11

• sgg_sitemap_post_media_urls filter added to modify Media Sitemap URLs
• Advanced Settings features improved

1.5.0 – 2023-07-04

• Dashboard Sitemap Settings escaping issues fixed
• Google News > Post Title escaping issues fixed
• Sitemap > Last Modified Date output format changed to ISO 8601
• Google News > Publication Date output format changed to ISO 8601

1.4.9 – 2023-06-20

• Plugin deactivation link removed when Pro Version is activated
• Toolbar actions improved

1.4.8 – 2023-06-09

• Yoast SEO noindex Categories, Taxonomies excluded from Sitemaps

1.4.7 – 2023-06-02

• Yoast SEO noindex Pages, Posts excluded from Sitemaps
• Video & Image Sitemap styles improved
• Pro Version: YouTube checking API Key option added
• Pro Version: YouTube API Data Caching feature added

1.4.6 – 2023-05-27

• Sitemaps styles improved
• Older PHP versions (7.3) support improved

1.4.5 – 2023-05-15

• Sitemaps restyled
• Image Sitemap: Image Preview column added

1.4.4 – 2023-05-07

• Plugin name changed

1.4.3 – 2023-05-03

• Cache Sitemaps feature added
• Caching Timeout option added
• Last Cached Time information block added
• Clear Cache added
• Google News date format changed
• Pro Version: Smart Caching feature added

1.4.2 – 2023-04-23

• Pro Version: Featured Images option added
• Pro Version: WooCommerce Gallery feature added

1.4.1 – 2023-04-22

• MediaSitemap syntax error fixed

1.4.0 – 2023-04-18

• Image Sitemap feature added
• Video Sitemap feature added
• Sitemap Content Options improved

1.3.5 – 2023-04-01

• HTML Sitemap shortcode improved

1.3.4 – 2023-03-26

• Security Update

1.3.3 – 2023-03-22

• WordPress 6.2 compatible

1.3.2 – 2023-03-08

• Scheduled posts removed from Sitemaps
• Additional URLs saving issue fixed

1.3.1 – 2023-03-06

• Save Changes issue fixed
• Ping Google News issue fixed

1.3.0 – 2023-03-03

• Help-bar with Tools, Previews, Tips, and Links added
• Automatically ping Google News feature added
• Ping Google News when Post Status changed feature added
• User-Friendly Interface improvements

1.2.8 – 2023-02-25

• Plugin name changed

1.2.7 – 2023-02-22

• Pro Features added

1.2.6 – 2023-02-18

• Minor bug fixes

1.2.5 – 2023-02-10

• Google News excluding Posts issue fixed

1.2.4 – 2023-02-06

• Pro Features added

1.2.3 – 2023-01-20

• Polylang displaying Home Page URL issue fixed

1.2.2 – 2022-12-29

• Minor bug fixes

1.2.1 – 2022-11-27

• Google News Sitemap added
• Google News custom Publication name feature added
• Google News custom Sitemap URL feature added

1.2.0 – 2022-11-03

• Pro Version added

1.1.2 – 2022-10-30

• WordPress 6.1 compatible

1.1.1 – 2022-09-17

• Minimum PHP Version downgraded

1.1.0 – 2022-07-29

• Front page last modified time issue fixed

1.0.7 – 2022-05-13

• WordPress 6.0 compatible

1.0.6 – 2022-02-07

• WordPress 5.9 compatible

1.0.5 – 2021-11-21

• WordPress compatibility update

1.0.4 – 2021-10-03

• Bug fixes.

1.0.3 – 2021-07-08

• WordPress 5.8 compatible

1.0.2 – 2021-03-13

• WordPress 5.7 compatible

1.0.1 – 2021-02-21

• Bug fixes

1.0.0 – 2021-02-17

• Release