Rapls Sitemap – HTML Sitemap & Post List

Choosing what appears

• Depth limit, and a “list only what is under this page” scope, which a shortcode can resolve to the current page or the one above.
• Exclude posts, categories or users by ID, or whole post types and taxonomies. Excluding a parent page takes its children with it, or leaves them listed a level up — your choice.
• Leave out the sitemap’s own page, password-protected entries, and entries individually marked noindex.
• Limit by publication date, for a sitemap of one school year. A category holding nothing from that year drops out with it.
• Entry caps: per list, per category, and a starting offset.

Ordering and design

• Entries by date, title, ID, menu order, last modified, comment count, at random, or by a custom field — which is how you get a true kana order for Japanese titles. Category headings by name, count, slug or ID.
• 27 CSS presets plus “no styling at all”, for themes that would rather do it themselves.
• A five-step text size slider on the Basic tab, for the one appearance question every site has.
• Font size, line height, indent, link colour, underline and column count on top of the preset; an exact font size overrules the slider.
• Bullets as discs, circles, squares, emoji or an icon class, separately for top and nested items.
• Section and category labels as real h2 – h6 headings, which screen-reader users navigate by.
• A class reference on the settings screen, for your own CSS.

Migrating from PS Auto Sitemap or WP Sitemap Page

Only their documented interfaces are reproduced; none of their code is used. Both options are off by default .

• WP Sitemap Page — [wp_sitemap_page] and its only values. Not claimed while WP Sitemap Page itself is active.
• PS Auto Sitemap — the <!-- SITEMAP CONTENT REPLACE POINT --> comment, plus a one-button import of its stored settings, which are read and never written.

noindex integrations

Entries individually marked noindex can be left out, reading these with no setup: Yoast SEO, Rank Math, SEO SIMPLE PACK, SEOPress, The SEO Framework, All in One SEO and the Cocoon and Avada themes. Categories, tags and authors are read too, where the term or author is what is listed.

A default applying to a whole post type, taxonomy or archive is not read. Those listings appear only because you chose them, and an SEO plugin’s default — Yoast noindexes date archives out of the box — would otherwise empty a list you asked for.

Extending it

Developer filters cover what the settings cannot reach, including rapls_sitemap/query_args , which hands you the query for one post type before it runs. Worked examples are on the plugin page.

Multilingual

WPML and Polylang work with no configuration. Both narrow the queries to the current language, and this plugin does not switch those filters off. The render cache keys on the locale, so one language is never served another’s.

Learn more: Plugin details and developer reference | Source code (GitHub)