I use the Google XML sitemap generator plugin.
Once installed, activated, it does everything for you.
You an also use WordPress SEO by yoast and it incorporates Google sitemap.
Easy peasy
thanks Christine,
Is there a way to check that it’s actually generating the sitemap. I find it hard to believe that once activated, you just forget about it and it generates sitemaps automatically.
thanks
I know, I find it hard to believe something I can’t see.
When you submit the sitemap it tells you if it was successful or that. Additionally it also generates the xml and sticks in your root folder. I don’t see why you would need more than that.
I don’t think it’s working. I checked my root folder and I see an older version of sitemap.xml, one that I manually uploaded last month. You said that it tells you if it was successful in submitting. How does it do that?
In the admin, you need to submit the sitemap the first time… There should be a settings for google xml sitemap. It’s under tools I think.
I would delete the one from your ftp and submit it again. It should say something.. like submitted to google successfully, bing, yahoo,… etc…
Oh I finally got it to work. People create great plugins but they don’t tell you how to use them.
I would be interesting to know how many WordPress website designers are actually using WordPress properly.
sorry but when you say:
I would be interesting to know how many WordPress website designers are actually using WordPress properly.
I don’t know what you mean??????????
WordPress is used by millions of people????? What are you suggesting?
I’m not sure how I can word my statement any clearer, but then again, there are people who give instructions thinking they are providing perfectly clear instructions when, in fact, they’re not clear at all.
I guess I’m saying that WordPress is an amazing platform, a God send, but very few can explain even the simplest of instructions sometimes. A good example is the Sitemap Plugin that I easily installed and activated, but one that I had to fiddle around with it for about an hour to learn how easy it really was to set it up. 1 2 3 instruction, a one minute video tutorial, a 3 line document would have done it.
The installation instructions are pretty clear and straightforward in my opinion. The only change I can see is that the Options tab has been renamed Tools.
You need as well to consider the fact that plugin developers do this for free.
I’m marking this post as resolved now so others can find a solution if they have a similar issue.
