HTML Sitemap for WordPress

Thanks for the great tip. It made short work of giving me exactly what I wanted in a site map. I created a shortcode with the code you provided for the template, then just used that in the body of a new page, no new template necessary.


// Call Sitemap Data
add_shortcode('sitemap','getsitemap');
function getsitemap() {
echo
get_template_part('/partials/sitemap');
;
}


What if you have like 5000+ pages? Is it still a good idea to create a html sitemap?

Thanks for the post Yoast. I’ll keep an eye out for your plugin and the html function, I’d really like to see it function.

I’m a complete wordpress newbie and not sure what I’m doing wrong but I don’t have a sitemap – am I missing something really obvious? What location should I put the sitemap.php file in? Your help would be very much appreciated. Below are the steps I’ve taken.

1. created partials folder under the images folder
2. created sitemap.php file and put this file in the partials folder with the code below:
Authors

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);
?>

Pages

”,
‘title_li’ => ”,
)
);
?>

Posts

<?php
// Add categories you'd like to exclude in the exclude here
$cats = get_categories('exclude=');
foreach ($cats as $cat) {
echo "”.$cat->cat_name.””;
echo “”;
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=-1&cat=’.$cat->cat_ID);
while(have_posts()) {
the_post();
$category = get_the_category();
// Only display a post link once, even if it’s in multiple categories
if ($category[0]->cat_ID == $cat->cat_ID) {
echo ‘”.get_the_title().”;‘;
}
}
echo “”;
echo “”;
}
?>

3. Created the sitemap.php file and code below

Authors

false,
)
);
?>

Pages

”,
‘title_li’ => ”,
)
);
?>

Posts

<?php
// Add categories you'd like to exclude in the exclude here
$cats = get_categories('exclude=');
foreach ($cats as $cat) {
echo "”.$cat->cat_name.””;
echo “”;
query_posts(‘posts_per_page=-1&cat=’.$cat->cat_ID);
while(have_posts()) {
the_post();
$category = get_the_category();
// Only display a post link once, even if it’s in multiple categories
if ($category[0]->cat_ID == $cat->cat_ID) {
echo ‘”.get_the_title().”;‘;
}
}
echo “”;
echo “”;
}
?>

@Andy. I got the same thing.

Question: I was thinking about creating an archives page for my blog. Would having an HTML sitemap along with the archives be bad for SEO, perhaps viewed as duplicate content? I’m not sure.

I had to make some adjustments to the code. I was getting unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING error.
echo "".get_the_title()."";

I’m not a coder, but this worked for me.
echo ''.get_the_title().'';

Thanks for this post Yoast!
I used the pages piece of your code to create a WP shortcode that I placed in a WP page called ‘Sitemap’.

// jlc 2011.02.08 | Shortcodes for HTML Sitemap
if ( ! function_exists( ‘sitemap_page’ ) ) {
function sitemap_page() {
// Add social bookmarking URL with button
echo ”;
echo ”;
// Add pages you’d like to exclude in the exclude here
wp_list_pages(
array(
‘exclude’ => ”,
‘title_li’ => ”,
)
);
echo ”;

// Close the
echo ”;
echo ”;

}
}
add_shortcode(‘sitemap’, ‘sitemap_page’);
//

It is all new for me, but thank you so much for sharing. I am looking forward to learn more about SEO and your plugin.

Thanks for the post Yoast! Im using Headway as a theme and found it very touchy. Do you know if I’m better off using a Plugin or can I still create this file? Really looking forward to your plug-in.

Indeed, I had the same problems. I have just pasted the sitemap-code in my page-sitemap.php (after the div content).

Good post. I had some difficulties to get it in a page, but I managed to create my own html-sitemap for my blog: http://www.dailybits.be/about/sitemap/