2014 July 29 Archive - EXEIdeas – Let's Your Mind Rock

Sitemaps are very important for the SEO of your Blog or Site. Sitemap mentioned the SE to use the mentioned URLs in their results. In short, a sitemap is the first step toward SEO. Nowadays webmasters first generate sitemap instead f writing some articles. So now you should also use sitemaps for your blog to be in the SE results and get organic traffic.In WordPress, there are many plugins that are generation your sitemap automatically whenever you publish a page or post but you better know that plugins can cause a heavy load on your hosting and also make your blog unsecure. So it’s time to leave using plugins for sitemap in WordPress as we also hate WordPress plugins.So here below we have some codes that will generate your WordPress posts and pages sitemap with stylesheet whenever you will publish a post or a page or update them. It will generate a real XML file in your hosting, not a fake one as plugins do.How To Make WordPress Sitemap Without Any Plugin?Step 1:) Copy the below code and Paste in in your Theme Function(function.php) file./* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** WordPress Dynamic XML Sitemap Without Plugin* Codes By Emrah Gunduz & All In One SEO* Updated And Edited By EXEIdeas/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------- */add_action("publish_post", "eg_create_sitemap");add_action("publish_page", "eg_create_sitemap");function eg_create_sitemap() {$postsForSitemap = get_posts(array('numberposts' => -1,'orderby' => 'modified','post_type' => array('post','page'),'order' => 'DESC'));$sitemap = ' ';$sitemap .= ' ';$sitemap .= ' ';foreach($postsForSitemap as $post) {setup_postdata($post);$postdate = explode(" ", $post->post_modified);$sitemap .= ' '.' '. get_permalink($post->ID) .' '.' 1 '.' '. $postdate[0] .' '.' daily '.' ';}$sitemap .= ' ';$fp = fopen(ABSPATH . "sitemap.xml", 'w');fwrite($fp, $sitemap);fclose($fp);}Step 2:) Now Create a file named it as sitemap-style.xsl.Step 3:) Now Copy the below code and Paste in that file and save it as above name. Sitemap SitemapIndex Sitemap Sitemap Index body {font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:68.5%;}table {border:none;border-collapse:collapse;}table {font-size:1em;width:100%;}th {text-align:left;padding:5px;}tr.stripe {background-color:#f7f7f7;} XML Sitemap By EXEIdeas This sitemap contains URLs This sitemap index contains sitemaps

URL LastChange stripe URL Priority Change Frequency LastChange stripe Step 4:) Upload the above file to your WordPress hosting main folder.Step 5:) Publish a new post or Update any old post.Step 6:) Now open www.yourdomain.com/sitemap.xmlStep 7:) You will find out your sitemap there.Customization:1.) Change sitemap.xml with any of your desired name if you have a pre built sitemap at same name.2.) Use same name at sitemap-style.xsl in both steps.Last Words:This is what we have and shared in easy steps for newbies so that they can easily know how it works. Stay with us because we are going to share a whole guide step by step about WordPress and make it easy for you. If you liked it then share it and be with us to get next tutorial. If you have any problem then feel free to ask us. We will help you with what we can or have.Disclaimer: The basic code that we shared here is taken from Emrah Gunduz & All In One SEO. Rest we updated it with some more awesome features.