A simple yet fully configurable WordPress sitemap plugin that helps you generate SEO-friendly HTML sitemap for posts, pages, Taxonomies, and categories.
More features:
- With images, excerpt, and date.
- Horizontal & vertical view.
- Allows to set the depth, order, and column layout.
- Easy to implement using a shortcode.
How to use it:
1. To get started, search the name ‘WordPress Simple HTML Sitemap’ on the ‘Add Plugins’ page and the install & activate the plugin.
2. Config the plugin on the ‘Settings’ page.


3. Insert the shortcode into anywhere on the WordPress. Note: Default values are always used for missing shortcode attributes. i.e. Override only the values you want to change.
[wshs_list post_type="page" name="Page Sitemap" order_by="date"] [wshs_list post_type="post" name="Post Sitemap" order_by="date"] [wshs_list post_type="page" name="Page Sitemap" order_by="date" horizontal="true" separator="|"] [wshs_list post_type="post" name="Post Sitemap" order_by="date" horizontal="true" separator="|"]
4. Possible parameters to config the HTML sitemap.
post_type="page"
– A list of pages, in the order entered.post_type="post"
– A list of posts for each post type specified, in the order entered.name="Post Sitemap"
– Display post type title.child_of=""
– To specify the parent page by adding parent page IDorderby="title"
– Pages and Posts will be ordered by title alphabetically in ascending orderdepth="2"
– Using this option one can control what level of sub-pages should be included in the sitemap.show_image="true"
– Optionally show the post or page featured image.image_width="30" image_height="30"
– Optionally show the post or page featured image set height and width.content_limit="140"
– Optionally show a post excerpt (if defined) under each sitemap item.show_date="true"
– Set to “true” to display sitemap items in post created date.date="created"
– Display sitemap items in post created date.date_format="F j, Y"
– Display sitemap items date format.layout="single-column"
– To show the sitemap in Single column or in Two column.position="left"
– For Two column layout, you can choose to show sitemap in left or right column.taxonomy="category"
– List of post type for each post type specific taxonomy post list.terms="wordpress-plugins"
– List of post type for each post type specific taxonomy by terms post list.horizontal="true"
– Set to “true” to display sitemap items in a flat horizontal list. Great for adding a sitemap to the footer!separator=" |"
– The character(s) used to separate sitemap items. Use with the ‘horizontal’ attribute.exclude="100,122,155"
– Comma separated list of post IDs to exclude from the sitemap.
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Author: Ashish Ajani
Homepage: https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-simple-html-sitemap/
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