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simple-xml-sitemap-generator

Simple XML Sitemap Generator

add a sitemap to your wordpress website.

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Proof Health

Open evidence

Commercial opportunities need traceable source links before they are treated as build-worthy.

71 / 112 rows with source links

63.4% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

0 build-decision rows missing links

0 rows here require auditable proof before promotion.

41 rows with no attached evidence

0 rows have source counts but still need direct links.

Download Momentum

180 days
411 478 -14.0% 4.8K

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
question support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
404 error

404 error: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
404 error Plugin is installed and active, doesn’t actually generate the sitemap.
complaint review · medium severity · relevance 0.75
Note working on WP 5.*

Note working on WP 5.*: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Note working on WP 5.* When typing ww.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml, then error 404 When typing ww.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml, then error 404 did you update an existing page or post (or create an new one?) after you installed this Plugin?
complaint support · medium severity · relevance 0.74
Deleted Post stays in Sitemap

Deleted Post stays in Sitemap: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I tried something by adding/editing a post (found that you have to shift+refresh to actualize…) I deleted the post afterward, but it stays in the sitemap.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Noticed this in the debug.log

Noticed this in the debug.log: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Noticed this in the debug.log PHP Notice: Undefined variable: prod_id in /home/ sitename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: prod_id in /home/ sitename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44 thank you for this info – i will investigate int
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
PHP Warning for index.php

PHP Warning for index.php: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
PHP Warning for index.php Hello Eric, seems this previous issue re-appeared with version 2.2.6 PHP error log reports “Undefined variable $prod_id in /home/…../wp/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44” Which means this line here in the plugin’s index.php: $xmlpost_id_check = nl2br(get_post_meta($prod_id,’sitemap’,true)); System:
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator

Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator A simple and effective XML Sitemap generator.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
best XML site generator i’ve ever found

best XML site generator i’ve ever found: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
best XML site generator i’ve ever found Der beste XML-Site-Generator, den ich bisher gefunden habe.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
Very Simple and Very Effective

Very Simple and Very Effective: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
Very Simple and Very Effective This plugin does a great job generating an XML sitemap automatically.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.44
add budypress easily

add budypress easily: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
add budypress easily Hello on the index page is it possible to add content for budy press ?
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
It just works

It just works: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Proof Blocked card complete search visibility operations Evidence linked to opportunity
It just works No bloatware like many other “SEO sitemaps”, it just works and does the job.

Competitor Context

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WP Sitemap Page weak incumbent · intel 81.7 · weakness 72.2
weak incumbent
stale update history 11 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
Browser Screenshots praise owner · intel 75.4 · weakness 66.1
praise owner
stale update history 17 collected complaint signal(s) support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect blocks layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
FakerPress praise owner · intel 69.5 · weakness 53.2
praise owner
1 unresolved support thread(s) 13 collected complaint signal(s) bugs missing feature 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: developers, agencies, and technical site owners · Wedge: preflight developer code changes, compatibility risks, rollback paths, and debug evidence
PDF Thumbnails praise owner · intel 69.4 · weakness 57.2
praise owner
stale update history 6 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, creators, agencies, and media-heavy site owners · Wedge: test thumbnail embeds, players, thumbnails, browser behavior, and asset delivery failures
SMK Sidebar Generator praise owner · intel 67.4 · weakness 50.5
praise owner
17 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect widget layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Child Theme Wizard praise owner · intel 65.9 · weakness 49.0
praise owner
14 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect child theme layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
Featured Image Generator praise owner · intel 64.2 · weakness 47.4
praise owner
19 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
PDF Thumbnail Generator praise owner · intel 62.2 · weakness 45.4
praise owner
10 collected complaint signal(s) bugs support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check image publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live

Repeated Themes

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No repeated plugin-level themes have been generated yet.

Collected Signals

20 shown from 23 collected
complaint Deleted Post stays in Sitemap support · 2025-03-13T10:28:55+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Deleted Post stays in Sitemap: users show support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: The page I need help with: [ log in to see the link] I tried something by adding/editing a post (found that you have to shift+refresh to actualize…) I deleted the post afterward, but it stays in the sitemap.
support value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator (5 stars) review · 2024-04-25T12:15:54+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Simple and effective XML Sitemap Generator A simple and effective XML Sitemap generator.
bugs compatibility easy reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed PHP Warning for index.php support · 2024-04-09T13:17:07+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

PHP Warning for index.php: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: PHP Warning for index.php Hello Eric, seems this previous issue re-appeared with version 2.2.6 PHP error log reports “Undefined variable $prod_id in /home/…../wp/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44” Which means this line here in the plugin’s index.php: $xmlpost_id_check = nl2br(get_post_meta($prod_id,’sitemap’,true)); System:
bugs compatibility easy reliable search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Noticed this in the debug.log support · 2024-01-24T17:04:16+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Noticed this in the debug.log: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Noticed this in the debug.log PHP Notice: Undefined variable: prod_id in /home/ sitename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44 PHP Notice: Undefined variable: prod_id in /home/ sitename /public_html/wp-content/plugins/simple-xml-sitemap-generator/index.php on line 44 thank you for this info – i will investigate int
bugs compatibility easy reporting search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise It just works (5 stars) review · 2023-11-30T14:46:22+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

It just works: users praise reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: It just works No bloatware like many other “SEO sitemaps”, it just works and does the job.
reliable seo search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Perfect – SIMPLE (5 stars) review · 2023-08-12T03:53:49+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Perfect – SIMPLE: users praise easy, reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Perfect – SIMPLE Works as instructed.
easy reliable quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed How Do I Add Custom Field To Exclude a Page or Post support · 2023-04-03T20:05:45+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

How Do I Add Custom Field To Exclude a Page or Post: users show missing feature, support, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Can you help me find out how I create a new custom field so I can add the appropriate values to exclude the page from the sitemap.xml?
missing feature support setup value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Remove the sitemap after deleting the plugin support · 2023-03-14T12:06:41+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

Remove the sitemap after deleting the plugin: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: I have installed an SEO plugin that provides the XML sitemap feature and didn’t need anymore the “Simple XML Sitemap Generator” plugin, so I deleted it.
compatibility missing feature setup easy search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Use additionally to WPML/Yoast-Sitemap creation? support · 2022-08-10T15:29:15+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

Use additionally to WPML/Yoast-Sitemap creation?: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Thanks a bunch and best regards, eC Hi, in addition to the sitemaps per language the WPML/Yoast combination creates for me, I search for a plugin that does create a combined sitemap of all languages.
quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Very Simple and Very Effective (5 stars) review · 2021-10-07T16:42:39+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Very Simple and Very Effective: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Very Simple and Very Effective This plugin does a great job generating an XML sitemap automatically.
bugs easy quality seo search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Feature Request: Change Priority Levels support · 2021-10-07T16:38:42+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

Feature Request: Change Priority Levels: users show missing feature, support, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Feature Request: Change Priority Levels Hello, Currently, the plugin seems to give all pages and posts the same change frequency and priority: <changefreq>daily</changefreq> <priority>0.8</priority> However, it would really be helpful if the user could change the ‘frequency’ to something other than daily, for example monthly or yearly.
missing feature support migration search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
mixed Exclude url support · 2021-06-18T09:41:47+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

Exclude url: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Exclude url Goodmorning, I would like to know how to exclude a single url from the sitemap.
bugs missing feature value search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise add budypress easily (5 stars) review · 2021-02-11T22:47:23+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

add budypress easily: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: add budypress easily Hello on the index page is it possible to add content for budy press ?
missing feature search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Wow! (5 stars) review · 2021-01-29T17:23:48+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Wow!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Wow! Nice sitemap plugin! Nice sitemap plugin! thank you thank you
search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Works like a charm (5 stars) review · 2020-03-01T23:11:38+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Works like a charm: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works like a charm Thank you for this plug-in.
reliable value quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral add category support · 2019-09-26T06:25:46+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

add category: users show missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: activate this settings in the settingpage thanks for your feature proposal hi @ehsanchehri with the new update – you can add your categories to your sitemap.
missing feature search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
neutral Verification support · 2019-09-15T15:52:34+00:00 · low severity · simple sitemap

Verification: users show setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Verification How do you verify that the PU is installed and operating correctly?
setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
question 404 error support · 2019-04-01T23:53:09+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

404 error: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: 404 error Plugin is installed and active, doesn’t actually generate the sitemap.
bugs compatibility support setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
complaint Note working on WP 5.* (1 star) review · 2019-03-14T19:28:05+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Note working on WP 5.*: users show bugs, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Note working on WP 5.* When typing ww.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml, then error 404 When typing ww.mywebsite.com/sitemap.xml, then error 404 did you update an existing page or post (or create an new one?) after you installed this Plugin?
bugs setup search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes
praise Thank you for this plugin! (5 stars) review · 2018-06-10T14:20:40+00:00 · medium severity · simple sitemap

Thank you for this plugin!: users praise quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: The best xml sitemap plugin I have ever seen!
quality search visibility operations Proof Blocked card complete Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, SEO consultants, and agencies · Wedge: monitor sitemap drift, schema/indexing failures, and client-readable search-impact fixes