Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin Changelog

Maintenance of this plugin has been taken over by Auctollo. You can find all up-to-date information on their website. If you need support, please use the forums or contact the new maintainer. Thanks!

This is the changelog of the Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin for WordPress. Most of the older releases are available at the download archive.

New in Version 4.0.9 (2017-07-24):

  • Fixed security issue related to donation functionality. This was a very theoretical issue.

New in Version 4.0.8 (2014-11-15):

  • Fixed bug regarding the exclude categories feature, thanks to Claus Schöffel!

New in Version 4.0.7.1 (2014-09-02):

  • Sorry, no new features this time… This release only updates the Compatibility-Tag to WordPress 4.0.

New in Version 4.0.7 (2014-06-23):

  • Better compatibility with GoDaddy managed WP hosting
  • Better compatibility with QuickCache
  • Removed WordPress version from the sitemap
  • Corrected link to WordPress privacy settings
  • Changed hook which is being used for sitemap pings to avoid pings on draft edit

New in Version 4.0.6 (2014-06-03):

  • Added option to disable automatic gzipping
  • Fixed bug with duplicated external sitemap entries
  • Don't gzip if behind Varnish since Varnish can do that

New in Version 4.0.5 (2014-05-18):

  • Added function to manually start ping for main-sitemap or all sub-sitemaps
  • Added support for changing the base of the sitemap URL
  • Fixed issue with empty post sitemaps (related to GMT/local time offset)
  • Fixed some timing issues in archives
  • Improved check for possible problems before gzipping
  • Updated Japanese Translation, thanks to Daisuke Takahashi

New in Version 4.0.4 (2014-04-19):

  • Removed deprecated get_page call
  • Changed last modification time of sub-sitemaps
  • Added link regarding new sitemap format
  • Updated Portuguese translation, thanks to Pedro Martinho
  • Updated German translation

New in Version 4.0.3 (2014-04-13):

  • Fixed compression if an gzlib handler was already active
  • Help regarding permalinks for Nginx users
  • Return 404 for HTML sitemaps if the option has been disabled
  • Updated translations

New in Version 4.0.2 (2014-04-01):

  • Fixed warning if an gzip handler is already active

New in Version 4.0.1 (2014-03-31):

  • Fixed bug with custom post types including a "-"
  • Fixed some 404 Not Found Errors

New in Version 4.0 (2014-03-30):

  • No static files anymore, sitemap is created on the fly!
  • Sitemap is split-up into sub-sitemaps by month, allowing up to 50.000 posts per month! More information
  • Support for custom post types and custom taxonomies!
  • 100% Multisite compatible, including by-blog and network activation.
  • Reduced server resource usage due to less content per request.
  • New API allows other plugins to add their own, separate sitemaps.

New in Version 3.4.1 (2014-04-10):

  • Compatibility with mysqli

New in Version 3.4 (2013-11-24):

  • Fixed deprecation warnings in PHP 5.4, thanks to Dion Hulse!

New in Version 3.3 (2013-09-28):

  • Fixed problem with file permission checking
  • Filter out hashs (#) in URLs

New in Version 3.2.9 (2013-01-11):

  • Fixed security issue with change frequencies and filename of sitemap file.

New in Version 3.2.8 (2012-08-08):

  • Fixed wrong custom taxonomy URLs, thanks to ramon fincken!
  • Removed ASK ping since they shut down their service.

New in Version 3.2.7 (2012-04-24):

  • Fixed custom post types, thanks to clearsite!
  • Fixed broken admin layout on WP 3.4

New in Version 3.2.6 (2011-09-19):

  • Removed YAHOO ping since YAHOO uses bing now
  • Removed deprecated function call

New in Version 3.2.5 (2011-07-11):

  • Backported Bing ping success fix from beta

New in Version 3.2.4 (2010-05-29):

  • Added (GMT) to date column in sitemap xslt template
  • Fixed wrong SQL statement for author pages
  • Fixed several deprecated function calls

New in Version 3.2.3 (2010-04-02):

  • Fixed that all pages were missing in the sitemap if the "Uncategorized" category was excluded

New in Version 3.2.2 (2009-12-19):

  • Updated compatibility tag to WordPress 2.9
  • Fixed PHP4 problems

New in Version 3.2.1 (2009-12-16):

  • Notes and update messages at the top of the admin page could interfere with the manual build function
  • Help links in the WP contextual help were not shown anymore since the last update
  • Updated Spanish language files

New in Version 3.2 (2009-11-23):

  • Added function to show the actual results of a ping instead of only linking to the url
  • Added new hook (sm_rebuild) for third party plugins to start building the sitemap
  • Fixed bug which showed the wrong URL for the latest Google ping result

New in Version 3.1.9 (2009-11-13):

  • Fixed MySQL Error if author pages were included

New in Version 3.1.8 (2009-11-07):

  • Improved custom taxonomy handling and fixed wrong last modification date
  • Fixed fatal error in WordPress versions lower than 2.3
  • Added warning if blog privacy is activated

New in Version 3.1.7 (2009-10-21):

  • Added support for custom taxonomies. Thanks to Lee!

New in Version 3.1.6 (2009-08-31):

  • Fixed PHP error "Only variables can be passed by reference"
  • Fixed wrong URLS of multi-page posts (Thanks artstorm!)
  • Updated many language files

New in Version 3.0 (final) (2007-09-24):

  • Marked as stable
  • Removed useless functions

New in Version 3.0b (2005-11-25):

  • WordPress 2.0 (Beta, RC1) compatible
  • Added different priority calculation modes and introduced an API to create custom ones
  • Added option to exclude password protected posts
  • Posts and pages marked for publish with a date in the future won't be included
  • Recoded plugin architecture which is now fully OOP