SiteTree

SiteTree is a lightweight solution to enhancing a WordPress website with a multi-page Site Tree, Google (Image) Sitemaps and News Sitemaps. Developed prioritising user-friendliness, SiteTree is plug-and-play and nearly independent from user input.

An overview of the major features:

A Family of Dynamic Sitemaps

Be it a Site Tree, a collection of Google Sitemaps or a Google News Sitemap, the sitemap of your choice will always be up-to-date.

SiteTree Dashboard

Where you can control the activation of the sitemaps and the enabling of the automatic pinging functionality, choose which types of content to include, adjust the sitemap split-up threshold, reorder with a drag-and-drop the hyper-lists composing the Site Tree, and generally know details about the building process and the latest pinging events.

Code-free Customisation

WordPress-like settings pages together with the SiteTree Dashboard are where all your customisations take place. No need to be a developer to use SiteTree.

A Myriad of Hyper-lists

Fully documented and always ready-to-use, the [sitetree] shortcode and its workmate sitetree_get_hyperlist() are flexible like only a few other developer tools: you change one attribute, or argument, and a whole new, dynamic list of hyperlinks is all set to be perused.

Custom Post Types Support

You can include in the sitemaps any kind of content, custom or built-in. Yes, even in the Google News Sitemap.

Exclude and Disallow

Posts, Pages and Custom Posts can be excluded from the sitemaps and the shortcode-generated hyper-lists directly from the editor screen of WordPress. And with no more than a tick of a setting you can add to the ‘robots.txt’ file generated by WordPress a Disallow rule for each web page excluded from the Google Sitemap.

Site Tree Pagination [NEW]

The pagination of a medium-to-large Site Tree can really benefit usability, and SiteTree strives to make it happen: the plugin exactly knows when a hyper-list composing your Site Tree must be spread between multiple pages or can be left untouched, and it is equally punctual on choosing when a navigation menu must be showed up at the bottom of the multi-page Site Tree.

XML Sitemap Index [NEW]

An expanding website cannot welcome Googlebot but with a Sitemap Index: SiteTree creates a distinct sitemap, or a group of sitemaps, for each type of content the included permalinks belong to, and the best part is that SiteTree can silently switch between single and multiple sitemaps mode while keeping unchanged the location of the main sitemap.

Automated and Upon-request Pinging

SiteTree can ping Google both on request, and automatically whenever a permalink is added to a Google Sitemap or to a News Sitemap. And when the subject of the notification is a Google Sitemap, there is always a second ping ready to reach Bing.

This is a Ghost Page

When a page is flagged as Ghost Page, SiteTree automatically excludes the Page from all the sitemaps and the shortcode-generated hyper-lists, prevents the WP Super Cache plugin from caching the Page and hides the Page from crawlers without showing up its path in the ‘robots.txt’ file.

A Site Tree made up of details:

• Drag-and-drop reordering of the hyper-lists composing the Site Tree.
• Hierarchical and flat list styles.
• De-hyperlinking of parent pages up to the third level.
• Exclude all child pages.
• Order pages by menu order or title.
• Group posts by date, category or author with the ability to toggle the hyperlinking of the group’s title.
• Order posts by title, publication date or popularity.
• Order custom posts by title or publication date.
• Stick featured posts on top.
• Show an excerpt of user defined length for posts.
• Show authors’ avatar and biographical info.

More info and the complete documentation are available on LuigiCavalieri.com.

Extend SiteTree with Leaves!

Leaves are lightweight yet powerful add-ons specifically built for SiteTree. For the time being, they are just two, but already flexible enough to let SiteTree be an answer to your advanced needs:

• Wonder Leaf — A constantly growing collection of little gems.
• Multilingual Leaf — Sitemaps for multilingual websites powered by WPML.