Rating: 1 star
No warning that it has premium features. Free ones are useless.
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Exclude is now a exclusively a premium feature effectively making this plugin useless after spending hours getting it working.
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After the recent updation of the plugin causing wordpress editor to crash. Editor showing “The editor has encountered an unexpected error.”. If deactivate this plugin editor works fine. Please fix the bug in your code. thanks.
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I use the Simple Sitemap to locate my own stuff on the site. It allows me to search and find blog posts I can use as attachments and repurpose very easily.
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Really simple to use and great support
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I’ve been using this plugin for a few years now and it does what it says on the tin – provides a straightforward sitemap without complications
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Have been looking for a plugin for a long time that gave a useful overview in a simple way. I found that with Simple Sitemap.
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I upgraded to the Pro version so that I could have support for custom post types.
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After installing/activating, I reviewed of what the developer calls a “live demo.” It is not. It is an undecipherable mess of links without any up-front explanation of why I might choose to select one or another of these many links.
So then I went to delete the plugin. I discovered that it commits the most heinous of plugin sins — it won’t uninstall. After I deactivated and then clicked “delete,” the following message was returned:
“You cannot delete a plugin while it is active on the main site.”
Really? After I DEACTIVATED the plugin. Truly heinous.
Do not go anywhere near this.
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Perfect sitemap. Very simple and effective
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Great Plugin – Recommend It!
Simple, easy to upload and configure. We use it to increase our website SEO, search engines still look for sitemaps. I would recommend any Theme or Plugin by David Gwyer. You can reach him with questions. He is responsive, accessible, and a technologically savvy individual. I’d recommend all his Plugins and Themes.
Rating: 1 star
Pity as I liked the look of the plugin as I’d like a human readable sitemap but when I install and activate the plugin on my multisite (www.coresystemtrust.org.uk) it kills the site. If I deactivate site is fine again, reproducible. I’m on WP 5.9.1 and Simple Sitemap 3.5.5.
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Great job man. Please keep it as simple as it is!
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I love this plugin a lot.
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I really cannot say enough about Simple Sitemap Pro. The plugin works like a dream right out of the gate and it’s so easily customized. Plus the support is amazingly responsive! I needed help with a function that was not part of the plugin. David sent me a workaround and immediate follow-up support for getting it to work … plus promised to add the function to the plugin! You can’t ask for more than that. I’m just blown away by the support! Thanks so much, David … you’re the best!
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I was looking for a way to create an HTML sitemap or rather a site directory for SEO purposes.
I tried several other plug-ins that were complicated, installed XML sitemaps where they weren’t wanted, and broke the site due to poorly written code. Then, I found this one and had it up and running in just a few minutes.
I was so impressed with the free version that I purchased the Pro version. It was money well spent because my crawl rate on SEMRUSH went from 140 pages to almost 400 in a matter of minutes. Imagine the positive effect that should have on SEO.
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You were speaking the truth, just a few clicks and my fancy sitemap was up and running. Great job with the plugin, well done.
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The available shortcode parameters is too scattered and unclear. No idea what’s only available in Pro and what’s not. Deleted…
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For many years, the plugin was the best. Now I had to replace it with another plugin, where the basic functions are in the free version.
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While this used to be a good solution in the repository, it no longer provides the basic functionality of being able to exclude pages from your sitemap. Every sitemap needs to exclude pages. The repository version of this plugin used to include this basic function, and it was a 5 star option. While the author has put many years of development into the plugin and needs to support future development it seems that removing a vital piece of basic functionality is not the way to do it. This plugin with missing basics no longer belongs in the free repository. This changes broke many client sites that need to be fixed for free or will have unplanned expense passed on to them. In addition, if I stick with the plugin it means going to my clients with increased annual costs. I don’t believe the plugin author considered how this change would affect people with clients. I would be hesitant to use their other plugins going forward as this change was pretty big, was not communicated well, and not a good experience as a professional.
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Recently several shortcodes don’t work anymore.
It’s very annoying when excluded sites now are visible because the “exclude”-shortcode not working longer in the free version.
Rating: 1 star
Don’t waste your time.
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Thank you very much guys
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I have to find another solution.
It was a surprise that the basic functionality such like exclude by ID was off in free version. It’s weird that I got no notification that the functionality of free version was limited. So months we were using “new” version and didn’t know that something is not correct. It’s not about money but distributing software. You need to be fair with your users.
Rating: 1 star
Maybe the pro version does what I want, but this free version does not. Showing only posts and not pages is stupid and pointless so I uninstalled.
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This used to be one of my go-to plugins. I’m totally ok with developers adding functionality and offering said functions as a “PRO” offering. I think it’s super uncool for a developer to take standard functionality in an existing plugin and put those functions behind a pay wall. I’m referring specifically to the “exclude” parameter. What a drag. I’m particularly annoyed in part because the last version of this plugin also made structural changes (the automated heading went from an h2 to an h3 level heading) broke bullet layout in some core WordPress themes (in my case, Twenty Fourteen) AND is overwriting the the parent theme styles for bullet layout in every theme I’ve come across (removing all indenting). Unfortunately, I didn’t realize the removal of the “exclude” shortcode parameter until AFTER I had implemented fixes for these other issues. Sadly, I can no longer use or recommend this plugin.
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I used Simple Sitemap for years and used to love it. The free version no longer lets me exclude specific pages/posts. For example, I have several thank-you pages and other content that absolutely should not show up in my HTML sitemap. The shortcode that used to exclude those page IDs doesn’t function anymore.
I also could not get support for the issue (need to buy the Pro version for that). That’s a bit risky, in my opinion, because there’s no guarantee that the issue will resolve itself simply by paying for the Pro version.
I have deleted this plugin. I now use a plugin called WP Sitemap Page — the free version works like a charm!
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It was great but the interesting features were moved to the paid version. The free version is now useless most of the time. Better not to do free version.
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A lot of emphases is put into XML sitemaps since they enable the search engines to crawl through the website properly. But I’m a big fan of HTML sitemaps as well. It gives a big overall picture on what your website is about. Simple Sitemap Pro does a great job. I also appreciate that the plugin author is very responsive.
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Thank you SO much for getting rid of the functions I actually need to use in the free version. Now its a waste of a plugin…
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