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Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML

v4.5.9.3
by Papin Schipper · 4.7 (56 reviews)

Easy to use XML and HTML sitemap generator + Robots editor

8K+ active installs Updated Jun 12, 2024 Tested to 6.5.5
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About Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML

The Companion Sitemap Generator plugin helps you create and update a sitemap for your website, which provides important information to search engines. It allows you to easily exclude specific pages or posts from the sitemap and notifies search engines of any changes. The plugin also includes a robots editor for controlling search engine visibility and supports multilingual sitemaps and multisite installations.

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Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML screenshot
Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML screenshot
Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML screenshot
Companion Sitemap Generator – HTML & XML screenshot

Changelog

4.5.9.3 (June 12, 2024)

  • Fixed Additional pages being blank

4.5.9.2 (March 20, 2024)

  • Fixed another small issue with Additional pages

4.5.9.1 (March 8, 2024)

  • Database version update to fix Yandex on update

4.5.9 (February 29, 2024)

  • New: Added option to auto-ping to Yandex

4.5.8 (February 29, 2024)

  • Fixed: Issue where it would show and empty “Additional pages” heading

4.5.7 (December 20, 2023)

  • Fixed: Taxonomy items not showing up in HTML sitemap
  • Fixed: Adding the XML sitemap to the HTML sitemap would break the page

4.5.6 (December 19, 2023)

  • Improvement: Better performance on larger sites

4.5.5 (September 20, 2023)

  • Fix: Fixed issue where multilingual would break the sitemap

4.5.4 (September 19, 2023)

  • New: Added “Never” option for the auto update, because why not?
  • Improvement: Better performance on larger sites

4.5.3 (June 12, 2023)

  • Fix: XSS issues

4.5.2 (October 28, 2022)

  • Fix: Critical error on Post content filter

4.5.1 (October 27, 2022)

  • Fix: “The link followed has expired” error on Post content filter

4.5.0 (October 13, 2022)

  • New: Add images to the sitemap Read more
  • Fix: Squashed some bugs

4.4.3 (July 4, 2022)

  • New: The plugin can now create missing files when needed rather than having you re-activate the plugin
  • Fixed: ACTUALLY added the option to remove the “changefreg” tag from the sitemap
  • Fixed: ALTER TABLE queries slowing down site on some occassions

4.4.1 (February 2, 2022)

  • New: Added option to remove the “changefreg” tag from the sitemap
  • New: Added more option to the auto-updater
  • Tweak: Made some slight improvements to the code
  • Tweak: Fixed a minor styling issue with WP5.9

4.4.0 (April 6, 2021)

  • New: Limit the number of posts shown per block in the HTML sitemap
  • New: Option to add a link to the XML sitemap in the HTML sitemap
  • Tweak: Fixed the overlapping of the robots textfield
  • Tweak: Updated some deprecated functions to newer funtions

4.3.1 (December 9, 2020)

  • Fix: Error when adding additional pages
  • Fix: Undefined variable when saving settings

4.3.0 (November 24, 2020)

  • Fix: Sometimes settings wouldn’t save
  • Fix: Sometimes some pages wouldn’t get excluded
  • Fix: Translation URLs will only get added if the translation is actually published
  • Notice: We’ve made some big changes to the database connection, making it better and safer but this does mean that some settings might get lost in the process

4.2.0 (July 11, 2020)

  • New: We can notify search engines about changes made
  • Tweak: Only load frontend stylesheet on the HTML sitemap page when gutenberg block is used
  • Tweak: Hard-coded headings in sitemap listing are no longer hard-coded
  • Fix: Some columns wouldn’t display properly on mobile devices

4.1.0 (March 11, 2020)

  • New: A better, cleaner dashboard. We’ve also moved support, settings and the robots editor to here
  • New: Additional pages, add pages outside of your WordPress installation to your sitemaps
  • Tweak: Support for WordPress 5.4
  • Tweak: Minor security improvements

4.0.4 (January 10, 2020)

  • Fixed issue where the sitemap wouldn’t load in the backend
  • Various security improvements

4.0.3 (January 5, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue where sometimes you couldn’t uncheck an item in the content filter

4.0.2 (January 4, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue where the XML sitemap would seem blank
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes the settings wouldn’t actually save

4.0.1 (January 3, 2020)

  • Removed shortcode generator in favor of Gutenberg block
  • Moved settings to new tab called “Settings” and gave the dashboard a redesign
  • Renamed the “Exclusion” tab to “Content filter”
  • Fixed a few (minor) errors
  • Made some under the hood security and performance improvements

4.0 (January 2, 2020)

  • New: We’ve added a fancy shiny gutenberg block to replace the shortcode

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