Hierarchical HTML Sitemap

Hierarchical HTML Sitemap offers visitors an easy and intuitive way to navigate your blog.

This plugin generates an HTML sitemap of your WordPress blog. It displays a list of posts grouped by hierarchically sorted categories. By using a shortcode, you can display it on a page or anywhere else that supports shortcodes, such as a widget.

The output does not include CSS or JavaScript files. It is pure HTML, ready to inherit or receive your theme’s styles.

Features

• Short and easy shortcode: [htmlmap] .
• Categories sorted hierarchically.
• Displays posts and/or pages.
• Can exclude specified posts, pages, or categories.
• Displays category navigation above the posts list.
• Displays post publication dates.
• Clean HTML without scripts.
• Does not enqueue unnecessary JavaScript or CSS files.
• No ads or author links in the output.

Usage and options

The [htmlmap] shortcode accepts these optional attributes:

• exclude : post or page IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude="445,446"] .
• exclude_cat : category IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude_cat="1,34"] .
• showpages : display the list of pages, for example [htmlmap showpages] .
• hidecloud : hide category navigation, for example [htmlmap hidecloud] .
• showdescription : display category descriptions, for example [htmlmap showdescription] .
• hidedate : hide post publication dates, for example [htmlmap hidedate] .
• hidecount : hide post counts in category headings, for example [htmlmap hidecount] .

You can combine attributes, for example:

[htmlmap exclude="3546,7398" exclude_cat="1,34" showpages hidecloud]

HTML structure and CSS classes

The shortcode preserves existing category heading IDs ( cat_<term-id> ), the category navigation class ( cat ), and the empty-category class ( null ).