Monday, October 20, 2008

Useful tips to turn your Wordpress into a CMS - 2

WP Plugin - Dagon Design Sitemap Generator



If you want to create a sitemap for your site which will automatically update whenever you add a new post or page, this plugin is a good candidate.

This plugin creates a sitemap for your WordPress powered site. This is not just another XML sitemap plugin, but rather a true sitemap generator which is highly customizable from its own options page in the WordPress admin panel. Some of its features include: support for multi-level categories and pages, category/page exclusion, multiple-page generation with navigation, permalink support, choose what to display, what order to list items in, show comment counts and/or post dates, and much more.

So., I created a top level page, in the content editor chose the HTML editor and added a single line.
<!-- ddsitemapgen -->
This will give you a basic site map. To further tune this go to:
Settings->DDSitemapGen

My settings are:

Items per page: 50

Sitemap page slug: sitemap (if you are using permalinks)

What to show: Pages and posts (You can chose to show either your pages or posts or both)

If showing both, which first: Pages first (Pages is defining my site layout)

Page sort order: By menu order (ascending) - ( This will give the structure of pages and sub pages.)

Excluded categories: 1 (Excluding "Uncategorized" category)

Other setting of interest are: Sitemap navigation method,Show sitemap navigation etc...

See this in action here

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