Title: Cannot exclude pages
Last modified: January 7, 2020

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# Cannot exclude pages

 *  [Corrinda Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinda/)
 * (@corrinda)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-exclude-pages-3/)
 * While this used to be a good solution in the repository, it no longer provides
   the basic functionality of being able to exclude pages from your sitemap. Every
   sitemap needs to exclude pages. The repository version of this plugin used to
   include this basic function, and it was a 5 star option. While the author has
   put many years of development into the plugin and needs to support future development
   it seems that removing a vital piece of basic functionality is not the way to
   do it. This plugin with missing basics no longer belongs in the free repository.
   This changes broke many client sites that need to be fixed for free or will have
   unplanned expense passed on to them. In addition, if I stick with the plugin 
   it means going to my clients with increased annual costs. I don’t believe the
   plugin author considered how this change would affect people with clients. I 
   would be hesitant to use their other plugins going forward as this change was
   pretty big, was not communicated well, and not a good experience as a professional.
    -  This topic was modified 6 years, 5 months ago by [Corrinda Campbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corrinda/).

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 *  [Russell Aaron](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geekstreetwp/)
 * (@geekstreetwp)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-exclude-pages-3/#post-12301769)
 * Seriously. This. I’m all for you to Monetize your plugin. Please do. But taking
   basic functionality away and not properly Notifying the customers Via Change 
   Log or a notification in the dashboard is **NOT OK**. We expect better.
 *  Plugin Author [David Gwyer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dgwyer/)
 * (@dgwyer)
 * [6 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-exclude-pages-3/#post-12315310)
 * Thanks for the feedback.
 * As I’ve mentioned in other threads we overall added MORE features were added 
   than removed. Some previously premium features were added to the current free
   version. It definitely wasn’t just the case that a free feature was moved to 
   the pro version.
 * Lessons have been learned about notification to users going forward this could
   have been handled better. Any future changes to any of our plugins will be handled
   much more delicately.
 * We stand by our decision of the features that are included in the free/pro version
   and these will remain the same. I appreciate the points you make but the reality
   is that this plugin wouldn’t be around much longer if development can’t be supported.

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