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Disable WP Sitemaps

by Jeff Starr

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Description

This plugin prevents WordPress from adding its own sitemaps.

Also stops WordPress from adding a sitemap rule to the virtual robots.txt file.

👉 Uses only 1KB of code, so super lightweight, fast, and effective.

Features

  • Lightweight – only one line of code
  • Simple to use – activate and done
  • No settings to worry about
  • Easy peasy.

About WP Sitemaps

You can check your WP Sitemap located at /wp-sitemap.xml

Your sitemap should look similar to this.

For more information about WP Sitemaps:

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.

Disable WP Sitemaps is developed and maintained by Jeff Starr, 15-year WordPress developer and book author.

Support development

I develop and maintain this free plugin with love for the WordPress community. To show support, you can make a donation or purchase one of my books:

And/or purchase one of my premium WordPress plugins:

Links, tweets and likes also appreciated. Thank you! 🙂

Installing the plugin

Activate like any other plugin and done. There are no settings, works automatically.

More info on installing WP plugins

Uninstalling

To uninstall/remove the plugin, visit the Plugins screen, deactivate and delete the plugin. This plugin makes no changes to the WP database.

Why is this useful?

Because many sites add their own sitemaps via dedicated SEO plugins or custom code. So when WordPress adds its own sitemaps, there may be duplicate and/or conflicting sitemaps. Duplicate and conflicting sitemaps are discouraged as they may confuse the search engines. You don’t want to confuse the search engines, do you. Think SEO here.

So you have a choice. To avoid duplicate/conflicting sitemaps, you can either remove your existing sitemap solution, or you can activate this plugin to disable WP’s automatically generated sitemaps.

Or maybe you have a site that does not need sitemaps. Or maybe you just don’t want sitemaps, that’s your business pal. Whatever the reason, this plugin will do the job with a click.

Got a question?

Send any questions or feedback via my contact form

Simple. Easy. Just Works.

By nyxmidnight on October 7, 2024

Does exactly what it says on the tin, no bloat, no extraneous (and useless) features. It does one thing and it does that one thing perfectly. Love it.

I use my own sitemap, disable Yoast sitemap, and use this to disable WP sitemaps

By JJulien (scabuster) on June 5, 2024

ABC

Works Really Well!

By caroltheo on March 2, 2024

This plugin works very well - does what it says on the tin!

Easy Solution for a bad Design

By LSBK on October 25, 2023

Thank you!

Thank you!

By wardencenter on February 13, 2022

Always worry when something needs to be added to functions.php, because I know I'll forget about it when a theme update rolls around. Thanks for this simple, and so useful, plugin! It just works. Cheers

Thanks

By hsbkader on June 30, 2021

Thanks.. I took advantage

Works perfect!

By pgmachtweb (Peter Gruchott) on August 13, 2020

Thank you for the plugin!

Отличная работа!

By Oleh (som68) on August 12, 2020

Круто

Works as expected!

By alenright on August 12, 2020

Thanks for the plugin, the other way, just ticks "Search engine visibility" and the sitemap will gone..

Works a treat!!

By tgrblogger on August 12, 2020

Thanks for this Jeff!

If you like Disable WP Sitemaps, please take a moment to give a 5-star rating. It helps to keep the plugin going strong, and is greatly appreciated.

1.8.7 (2026/01/29)

  • Improves readme.txt documentation
  • Tests on PHP 8.4 and 8.5
  • Tests on WordPress 6.9

Full changelog @ https://plugin-planet.com/wp/changelog/disable-wp-sitemaps.txt

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