Sitemap Generator Plugin for Wordpress

Hi, was really excited about this plugin. Wanted to test on my personal blog before adding to business blogs.

Downloaded it, uploaded it, activated it, configured it, placed in the html editor on the page I created.

Viewed site - nothing. The page is blank.

Any ideas? I am running WP 2.3.3 on this blog. Any suggestions is appreciated.

Thank you kindly for this plug-in.
It works wonderfully.

The sitemap page only shows page 1, it does not show any page after that. It shows that there are 3 pages, but when I click on next page it shows the first page only.

Hi.

Can you update the options so we can include categories to “opt in” to the site map versus only “opt out”. The problem is that we use multiple categories for topics and we add new categories.

Under the current options, we have to “opt out” in your options page everytime we create a new category, which we don’t want to do. We want to specify only the “opt in” categories.

Thank you!

http://www.thecepblog.com/site-map

I have used the sitemap tools, and it is really very interesting.
Once again, thanks do much for your work.
Here you can see how beautiful is: http://www.tvcamer.com/sagong/sitemap
Best regards

I think there is a bug in function ddsg_remove_empty_cats, the last no posts categories will display in the output, like default categorie, so I made some fix.

/*
 * Remove categories with no posts
 */
function ddsg_remove_empty_cats($post_data) {

	$llp = -1;
	$last_type = 'c';
	$last_level = '0';

	$pdc = count($post_data);

	for ($i = $pdc - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) {

		$type = $post_data[$i]['type'];
		$title = $post_data[$i]['title'];
		$level = $post_data[$i]['level'];

		if (($type == 'c') && ($last_type == 'c') && ($last_level <= $level)) {
			$post_data[$i]['type'] = 'r';
		} else {
			$last_type = $type;
			$last_level = $level;
		}
		
		if ($post_data[$i]['type'] == 'p') {
			$llp = $post_data[$i]['level'];
		}

	}

	$new_post_data = array();
	foreach ($post_data as $pd) {
		if ($pd['type'] != 'r') {
			$new_post_data[] = $pd;
		}
	}

	return $new_post_data;

}

Very nice, simple and easy to use.
I installed,
set settings,
created a page called sitemap,
went to edit it,
and in the HTML tab, placed
saved

http://www.ericastjohn.com/sitemap/

and it works right out of the box.
Easy and simple! Thanks for this

I can not get this figured out.. I am not sure what is wrong.
I have the plug in down loaded. I have updated my permalinks page to say “sitemap” and updated the settings.

I have created a sitemap page, where my slug says, /sitema/.
What’s interesting is when I got to edit the plug in, I have to click on the Google XML option then this plugin shows up to be able to edit it.

I have spent will over 1.5 hours trying to figure this thing out. There NEEDS TO BE CLEAR STEP BY STEP instructions provided.
I know it’s probably something simple, but this is ridiculous.
Thanks,
Brian

thanks a lot…

This is working too good. For me. I have linked to you from my blog in wordpress plugins post because I love your plugin.

Regards,
iwebie (http://www.iwebie.com)

thanks…

yes there is, i don’t know if it is the best way but it works.

in the plugin there is a folder called lang. There you choose the language you installed, open the php-file and then there is a definition like this for english.php

define(’DDSG_PAGE_HEADER’, ‘Pages’);
define(’DDSG_POST_HEADER’, ‘Posts’);

and then you simply change it to this

define(’DDSG_PAGE_HEADER’, ”);
define(’DDSG_POST_HEADER’, ”);

this works

is there a way to exclude a parent category and not a sub-category. i want to be able to list sub categories without them being listed in the parent category above it. it is a little redundant. for example:

Parent Category: Education
Sub Categories: Post-Secondary, Secondary, K-12

Posts are categorized with ‘Education’ as well as ‘K-12.’ Is there a way to just list the Sub Categories under Education?

thanks a lot…

i searched a lot for a true sitemap.. and this is the best..

Thank you plugin.

True sitemap generator which is highly customizable is such relieve in our daily blog managing activities. Great advantage on getting better SERP too.

I love your plugins–they rock because they actually WORK and instructions are so easy to use.

However, I’m wondering if you can add additional formating for the Sitemap. I am using it as an “Achive” list because I couldn’t find any good or easy to use Archive plugins.

It seems that all the content in sitemap list is “squished together” or allows only 1 line break. Anyway to double space or even change the word make the Category titles bold–to clean up organization? Anyway to highlight (bold or make the font bigger on) the Title of the category instead of the word “category” instead?

Or another great upgrade is to allow all the Categories to list (as a group) at the top of page for easier navigation (jumps to sections instead of scrolling down pages).

Many thanks for your great plugins!

p.s. I’m on v.2.2 and do not plan to upgrade. I hope all your upgrades are backwards compatible.

thx for the great stuff!

nice plugin.thank you sir.

Got it working on Wordpress MultiUser WPMU
http://butyoureagirl.com/2008/05/01/sitemap/

nice plugin!

Could someone please help to short my problem described below?

I may be blind, but I am ging around in circles trying to find where I can download the sitemap generator. from what I have seen it looks like a worthy plugin. where can I find it?

This is “the plugin”. Nothing without it. Every blogger know is using it.

This plugin is great. Thank you very much!

thank you for plugin.

This is a great plugin. Works a charm, many thanks.

Hi-
I downloaded an installed and activated the latest plugin, but do not see DDSitemapGen in the options panel. Am I missing something?

Thanks,
Rita

hi,
I am trying to download your plugin, but when I click on download for Wordpress 2.5 it takes me to the wordpress plugin directory page and when I click on Dagon Design Sitemap Generagor it brings me back to your download page, I click download and the whole thing starts again.
Is it me?
Kind regards
Pauline

Nice Plugin - The Team from Deluxe Label (Germany)

This plugin is great. Thank you very much!

I have installed this plugin and made a sitemap page with

I could make sure the page was displayed (by preview page) when unpublished, but once published, it caused the 404 error.

How can I fix this?

Thank you in advance.

I am curious if there is a way to have it not sort by category. If you click on the sitemap it is forcing me to sort it by category and I just want to show posts based on publish date..

thanks

Great plugin, however is it possible to change the two headings ‘Posts’ and ‘Pages’ to something else (i.e. ‘Articles’ and ‘Other’) as this would fit in a lot better with my blog. I am sure it is just a case of editing the code a little, however I cannot work out which parts to edit?

Thanks.

installed on my blog, but it seems the firs page and first post appears in line with Pages and Post text, any ideas?

What is the URL of the DD sitemap??

@Edian
It seems to be a small mistake. Simply play something with the configuration o the htaccess file. Sorry about my english. Read an understand is no problem, but write. It is a shame, I know.

This plugin can be great jump start for new blog, especially improving its SERP rankings.

@Ingo: Thanks for replying,

I forgot to tell that my blog it’s inside a folder.

Here’s my .htaccess at root, I change the actual URL by {mypage}:

Options +Indexes
Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on

#convert www to no-www
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^{mypage}
RewriteRule (.*) {mypage}/1 [R=301,L]

#add the nice / thing to the end of the url
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
RewriteRule (.*) {mypage}/1/ [L,R=301]

Here’s my .htaccess inside of my blog’s folder:
Options Followsymlinks
RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitemap
RewriteRule ^sitemap/([0-9]+)/$ /index.php?pg=$1 [L]

RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteRule ^([0-9]{4})/([0-9]{1,2})/([0-9]{1,2})/([^/]+)/?$ {mypage}/blog/$4/ [R=301,L]

# BEGIN WordPress
RewriteBase /blog/
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]
# END WordPress

I try to put the RewriteBase /blog/ before the 2 lines for the sitemap and still doesn’t work,

Any advice?
Thanks again,

Hi - Thanks for the great plugin. No problems with installing on WP 2.5.1. I’d like to customize both the style as well as change the instances of the title “Posts” and the word “Category” preceding each category to make sense in the context of the site. Can you please point me toward the line of code where I can change these instances? I could not find previous references about this on your site. Much thanks!

Hi…i used this plugin in many of my sites. Recently i feel this that is there any possibility i can format the output on the sitemap page.

I need them little spaced out. they appear little clumsy on page.

I created a new wordpress page and simply added this line to the body. I titled the page sitemap, and it created it. When I submitted the page url to Google it came back with an “unsupported file format” error. What did I do wrong? I’d appreciate any help.

Thanks for this amazing plugin. This is the plugin that I was looking for

I have installed plugin and even “sitemap plugin by dagondesign.com” appears in my sitemap directory, but i don’t see categories or posts.

All i have is:

* (no title)

And “sitemap plugin by dagondesign.com”

Does it take Sitemap Generator time to crawl posts?
What is the problem?

@Edian
Try to write the two lines at the top of the .htaccess direkt after “RewriteEngine On”. My complete htacces look like this:

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^backlinkportal\.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://backlinkportal.com/1 [L,R=301]

RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/sitemap
RewriteRule ^sitemap/([0-9]+)/$ /index.php?pg=$1 [L]

RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]

Wonderful plugin. However the navigation doesn’t seem to be working. Always stays on page one, regardless which navigation style is chosen.

Yaakov

Forget it - I figured it out

… then where it states to add

to a WordPress page, do you mean to create a new page, or to add it to one of the .php files like “sidebar”?

Ignore that. It’s working now. Weird.

I had install and activate this plugin. Under DDSitemapGen,after change a little bit, I click “Update Option”.

Then what? It say “Configuration Updated!”. Where’s the xml? I cant find in my root?

Another question, WP has the export function for backup. Cant I use it as Google sitemap since the extension same?

Thank you for this plugin

Small “bug” from keeping it 100% Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict…

sitemap-generator.php Line 1209:

Replace With:

Thx a lot…good job..

I am using the latest version btw.

Great work!Nice plugin! Thank you!=)

When using permalinks in Wordpress 2.5 or later, the simply slug “sitemap” works for the first page, but all the links to subsequent pages are created without “index.php”, which results in 404s.

Specifying “index.php/sitemap” as the slug for the plugin fixes this problem.

This has probably more to do with changes made in the way 2.5 treats permalinks than with your plugin, but I thought you’d like to know.

Otherwise, fantastic work!

Hi DagonDesign,

Thanks for this plugin.

I just upgraded to the latest version (3.13) from the previous version and now numerically represented characters are not being displayed, only their number. So an emdash coded as & # 8 2 1 2; without spaces of course, shows as the number rather than an emdash like this — (but one long line w/o a gap of course

Hope this feedback is helpful.

Cheers, -Alan

I re-downloaded site map gen at 18:25CDT, reactivated the security plugin and the behavior returned. Will only display pages. Will not display posts. I’m removing cookies and etc.

Herzlichen Dank für dieses tolle Plugin,
es ist genau das, was ich gesucht habe.

Liebe Grüße aus der Schweiz

Ezri

***********************

Thank you so much, this is the plugin I ever want.

Greets from switzerland
(sorry for my bad english)

Ezri

Won’t activate…
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_OBJECT_OPERATOR in /mnt/w0203/d43/s01/b02d7cef/www/something.com/wp-content/plugins/dd-sitemap-gen/dd-sitemap-gen.php on line 818

A saviour for people like me… Amazing stuff man.. Also the xml addition makes u fabulous.. u are genius!

Omg. Simply said there’s a “ddsitemapgen” comment slug there

Hello, I’ve done everything as needed, but when I load a page where sitemap should be, I see a blank page, and looking in page sources i find there
What’s wrong?

There are some minor errors in the code that were thrown when I had error_reporting enabled. I don’t think these errors affected my output, but thought I’d let you know anyways. These minor errors come from v 3.12.
1) Undefined offset: line 341
2) Undefined offset: line 626
3) Undefined offset: line 632
4) Trying to get property of non-object: line 341
4) Trying to get property of non-object: line 626
5) Trying to get property of non-object: line 632

WP Security Scan - 2.2.56.54 Causes the Sitemap to NOT display the POSTS. It will display the pages but for some strange reason the POSTs disappear. If I disable this Plugin things are fine again.

Any ideas?

I’m having the same problem as the guy below, I insert the <!– ddsitemapgen code into the post but only a link to the sitemap.xml appears.

I’m using the Page Category Plus Plugin (http://www.stuff.yellowswordfish.com/page-category-plus/) which gives pages the ability to be assigned to categories. Is there possibly an enhancement you could add to your sitemap plugin to display the page categories on the sitemap, just like the post categories are displayed?

Or if it’s easy, can you show which lines to change/add to the plugin php code to accomplish this?

Thanks!

I had to change the “Items per page:” option to 0 so it would display on one page. Displaying on multiple pages now longer works. The links are generated but it always shows page one.

For me this is no big deal. I can leave with a one page site map. Just thought it might help some of you that are having problems.

Thanks for the plugin!
Regards