Easy XML Sitemap

Easy XML Sitemap is a lightweight and extensible XML sitemap plugin for WordPress.

It generates a sitemap index and multiple sitemap endpoints, supports all public custom post types, and can include images and videos inside each URL entry (Google extensions). It also provides a Status page with technical statistics (generation time, URL counts, hits, and ping results) so you can quickly confirm that everything is working.

The plugin is designed to be safe in real-world WordPress setups: – It uses caching for performance – It supports large sites via sitemap index and posts organization options – It includes WP-CLI commands for maintenance – It pings search engines on updates with debounce to avoid excessive requests – It detects when Yoast SEO or Rank Math are active and warns you clearly, without automatically overriding other plugins

Main sitemap index URL: – /easy-sitemap/sitemap.xml

Features

• Sitemap Index at /easy-sitemap/sitemap.xml
• Supports all public Custom Post Types (CPTs) with UI controls
• Posts can be organized as:
  • Single sitemap (all posts in one file)
  • By date (one sitemap per month/year)
  • By category (one sitemap per category)
• Image sitemap extension:
  • Featured images
  • Images found in post content
• Video sitemap extension (conservative and safe):
  • YouTube embeds supported with reliable thumbnails
  • Self-hosted video supported when thumbnail is available
  • Vimeo supported only when a reliable thumbnail is available (fallback strategy)
• Automatic ping to search engines on content update (debounced)
• Status page with technical sitemap statistics and ping results
• WP-CLI commands: status, regenerate, clear-cache
• robots.txt integration (adds sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt)
• Per-post exclusion controls (existing feature preserved)

Sitemap Endpoints

Sitemap index: – /easy-sitemap/sitemap.xml

Legacy endpoints (still supported): – /easy-sitemap/posts-index.xml – /easy-sitemap/posts-YYYY-MM.xml (when organizing posts by date) – /easy-sitemap/posts-{category-slug}.xml (when organizing posts by category) – /easy-sitemap/pages.xml – /easy-sitemap/tags.xml – /easy-sitemap/categories.xml – /easy-sitemap/general.xml – /easy-sitemap/news.xml

Custom post type sitemaps (v2.0.0): – /easy-sitemap/{posttype}.xml (example: /easy-sitemap/product.xml)