by Marco Beierer 3.7 (23 reviews)

Sitemap Generator

Name: Sitemap Generator
Rating: 3.7 (23 reviews)
Author: Marco Beierer

An easy to use XML sitemap generator with support for image and video sitemaps for WordPress.

Sitemap Generator ranks #3,765 among WordPress.org plugins with 3,000+ active installations, is #455 of 6,303 in the Media category, a 3.7/5 rating from 23 reviews, and was last updated Aug 17, 2026. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Compatible with WP 7.1

v1.8.1 Current Version v1.8.1

Updated 4 weeks ago Last Update on 17 Aug, 2026

Refreshed 7 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#455 of 6,303 in Media Top 10% by installs Downloads -25.2% this week Actively maintained

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#3,765

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Active Installs

3K+

-24.4%

KW Avg Position

18.5

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Downloads

200.4K

+33 today

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Rating

74%

Review 3.7 out of 5

3.7 (23 reviews)

Next Milestone 4K

Total Progress 95.3%

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Plugin Details

Version: 1.8.1
Last Updated: Aug 17, 2026
Requires WP: 4.7+
Tested Up To: 7.1
PHP Version: N/A
Author: Marco Beierer

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Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ☆ 3.7
Reviews: 23
Support Threads: 0
Resolved: 0%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners, especially those on shared hosting, who need an XML sitemap without using their own server's resources. It offloads sitemap generation to an external crawling service so the site's performance for visitors isn't affected during sitemap creation.

Image sitemap generation (Pro)
Video sitemap generation (Pro)
Respects robots.txt and crawl-delay
Supports robots noindex meta elements
Indexes PDF, XLS, DOC files
Works with HTML5 video and YouTube embeds
Free tier for up to 500 URLs
Low computation cost for webserver

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Sitemap Generator

Noindex set for all pages The Sitemap Generator is aware of robots (noindex) meta elements and does not list pages that are marked with the noindex attribute. I saw some websites in the wild, which have added the noindex attribute on each page. Please make sure that this is not the case for your website. Neither the Sitemap Generator nor a search engine will index your site if the noindex attribute is set globally. Site crawler blocked Another reason for a sitemap with no URLs could be that the crawler of the Sitemap Generator is blocked by your hosting provider. I have observed this issue especially with free and really cheap hosting providers. Some block crawlers (and regular visitors) already after five fast sequential requests. The issue could be fixed by whitelisting the IP of the crawler. However, I think this option is not available for the affected hosting services. Alternatively it is possible to use the crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt to set the delay between two requests.

The Sitemap Generator recognizes the noindex attribute if set on a page and respects your robots.txt file. It is thus possible to filter the results with these two mechanisms. A filter function in the plugin is not available, because it makes no sense in my opinion. If a page is not listed in a XML sitemap file, that means not that a search engine will not find it. Sooner or later the search engine finds and indexes the page. So the use of the noindex attribute and robots.txt are a clean solutions which is also respected by all serious search engines.

The Sitemap Generator uses a custom user-agent group named MB-SiteCrawler. This allows you a fine grained control of which pages are parsed and added to the sitemap. If you do not define a group for the custom user-agent in your robots.txt file, the default set in the * group apply.

Images which are only linked to directly and not embedded in a HTML page are listed in the image sitemap and not as normal URLs. There is sadly no specification about how to handle such images, but because images need some context to be evaluated correctly in this day and age, I think the image sitemap is the best place to put them.

If you embed images from external domains on your website, they are listed in the image sitemap. So it's no problem if you deliver your images for example through a CDN services which is available under another domain. Please not that this is only true for embedded images and not if you directly link to images on other domains.

No, the Sitemap Generator needs to crawl your website and the generator has no access to you local network.

In the most cases this is due to the fact that you have set a large value for the crawl-delay directive in your robots.txt file. Some hosters also add the crawl-delay directive automatically to your robots.txt file. The crawl-delay defines the time in seconds between to requests of the crawler.