Advanced XML Sitemap options for XML Sitemap & Google News.
Take precise control over what search engine crawlers index. Prevent crawler bandwidth waste by excluding low-value taxonomies, applying bulk editorial controls, and custom-naming your sitemap paths.
Multi-Engine Ping
Dispatches instant sitemap update pings to both Google and Bing endpoints when posts are revised.
Taxonomy Filters
Exclude empty categories, administrative tags, or author archives with simple checkboxes.
Custom URL Slug
Define clean, branded URLs like /sitemap.xml or a custom sitemap index name.
SEO Suite Coexistence
Works smoothly alongside Yoast SEO, Rank Math, and SEOPress without configuration conflicts.
XML Sitemap Advanced extends XML Sitemap & Google News for WordPress with advanced options and automated XML Sitemap Index pings and a Ping log to keep an eye on how often Google is notified.
Features comparison
| Feature description | Core plugin | XML Sitemap Adv. |
|---|---|---|
| Disable sitemaps: Exclude taxonomy and author sitemaps from the standard XML sitemap index. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multilingual (Polylang & WPML compatible) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Post types: define which internal or Custom Post Type should be included. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Last Modified in sitemap index. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Update the Last Modified date on each new comment. | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exclude specific taxonomies and authors | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Search Console Report: See the status of your Google News sitemap in the WordPress admin. Last submitted and last crawled dates, URLs, errors… * | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ping Google and Bing manually* | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ping Google and Bing automatically* | — | ✓ |
| Ping log: Keep a log of the latest pings to Google and Bing with exact date, time, URL and response status. | — | ✓ |
| XML Sitemap URL: Change the sitemap index name. | — | ✓ |
| Include empty archives: Allow empty categorie, tag and authors archives in the sitemaps. | — | ✓ |
| Yoast SEO compatibility: automatically excludes post set to noindex. | — | ✓ |
| Rank Math compatibility: automatically excludes post set to noindex. | — | ✓ |
| WP.org community support | ✓ | — |
| Priority support | — | ✓ |
*) Pings and Reports need a Google Cloud Platform project with Google Search Console API enabled. Instructions are provided in the plugin admin.
Looking for more features? We’re always brewing on improvements and we highly value our users input. If you want to promote any of the upcoming features or have something specific in mind, please let us know. Thanks! 🙂
- WordPress 4.4 or higher,
- PHP 5.6 or higher (8+ recommended),
- XML Sitemap & Google News 5.6 or later installed with the XML Sitemap Index option enabled.
