Create clean, complete, and up-to-date sitemaps for your WordPress website — automatically. Companion Sitemap Generator helps search engines and visitors explore your site with ease by generating both XML and HTML sitemaps, no coding required.

Whether you run a blog, portfolio, or e-commerce store, this plugin ensures that every important page stays visible and discoverable.

Features

• Automatic XML Sitemap: Always up-to-date and optimized for search engines including Google & Bing.
• User-Friendly HTML Sitemap: Create a public sitemap page to help visitors explore your site.
• Content Control: Include or exclude specific posts, pages, categories, taxonomies, or custom post types.
• Multilingual Support: Full compatibility with Polylang and other translation plugins.
• Built-in Robots.txt Manager: Edit crawling rules right inside WordPress — no FTP required.
• Lightweight & Fast: Minimal performance impact and no unnecessary scripts or bloat.

Why Use Companion Sitemap Generator?

• Works immediately, zero configuration needed.
• No tracking or external services.
• Perfect for site owners, agencies, and developers.
• Active maintenance and full compatibility with the latest WordPress releases.

What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages and posts your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. A sitemap tells the search engine which pages you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these pages: for example, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page.

Where can I find my XML sitemap?

You can typically access it at: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

How do I create an HTML sitemap page?

Create a new WordPress page and insert the gutenberg block from the editor.

Can I exclude certain content types?

Yes. You can exclude posts, pages, taxonomies, and custom post types via the settings.

Does the plugin support multilingual sites?

Yes — the plugin fully supports Polylang and can add language-specific tags to the sitemaps.

Does this plugin collect any data?

No. Companion Sitemap Generator does not track, send, or store any personal data.

4.6.2

• 📅 Release date: April 23, 2026

• ✨ Improved: Better contrast on certain elements

• 🐞 Fixed: The hidden object counters on the content filters

4.6.1

• 📅 Release date: April 16, 2026

• ✨ Improved: Better responsiveness for the HTML sitemap

• 🐞 Fixed: A couple of errors that broke the HTML sitemap

4.6.0

• 📅 Release date: March 20, 2026

• ✨ Improved: Redesigned dashboard pages to match new WordPress styling

• ✨ Improved: Reworked the content filter making it easier and clearer to use
• ✨ Improved: Changed wording on a few settings to make it clearer what it does

• ✨ Improved: Added more and clearer error messages that actually explain the problem

• ♿️ Accessibility: Began adding accessibility markup like screen reader texts (will be expanded upon in future updates)

• 🔒 Security: Added proper escaping to all translatable text

• 🔒 Security: Added additional user-right checks to all pages

• 🔒 Security: Updated some of the older functions to be more secure, making this plugin now require PHP 7.0 or higher

• 💡 New: Added a help tab for more information about all features (more and better info will be added in a future update)

• 💡 New: Added more intervals to the auto update and set default to daily (instead of hourly)

• 🐞 Removed: Support URLs that returned a 404 error

• 🐞 Removed: Show XML in HTML setting
• 🐞 Removed: Dashboard widget

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

Manual install

1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/companion-sitemap-generator, or install the plugin directly through the WordPress Plugins screen.
2. Activate the plugin through Plugins → Installed Plugins.
3. Go to Tools → Sitemap to customize your sitemap.
4. (Optional) Create a page for your HTML sitemap and insert the provided block.

Sitemap dashboard



Exclude posts from sitemap



Quickly update via dashboard



Edit robots file



HTML Sitemap