toddsmith

OMG… thanks for posting this s1tanaka! JetPack has been robbing me! I just deactivated it. You saved me a lot of time in troubleshooting and I appreciate it. Happy Thanksgiving ??

website link: https://www.CPIAonline.com

Probably by the time you read this, I will have it disabled, since it’s not desirable to have a dark screen when people come to my site.

Rincewind:

I did find your plugin useful, as far as displaying basic the information for a sitemap. What your plugin does, I had already done something similar after being given some coding instruction and snippets from my webmaster guru. After seeing yours as an off-the-shelf solution to what I had already done, it was a toss up between using yours or mine. Having suffered through the pain of trying to figure it out on my own, I think ALL plugin designers should be commended, so I would never diminish what you have done in any way.

However I wanted to go to the next level, which is to organize the sitemap info by categories.

I think the sitemap should help the user navigate the site, as well as be as easy to implement for the webmaster.

Without the ability to organize into categories, it’s kinda like having books randomly shelved by publication date in the library. If you were wanting to look at all the real estate books, for example, it would take you quite a while to find them ??

Also if I need to create my own custom data types, rather than using the category features that WP already has, that adds another level of effort for me as a webmaster.

The next level, above what Dagon offers, would be even more flexibility with organizing (and formatting) the info. Dagon’s sitemap isn’t perfect from that standpoint (plus it includes an automatic Dagon link at the bottom :-), but it is definitely the easiest sitemap to implement (that I have found so far) that organizes posts into categories.

Rincewind:

I really appreciate your reply. After reading your response, I was able to go back to the plugin settings page, click “Help” as you suggested, and yes, I do see the “Contact Me” link.

Just as an FYI… while I was awaiting your response, I searched and stumbled upon another plugin that does what I wanted directly. That plugin is “Dagon Design Sitemap Generator”. This info may or may not be of interest to you, as a plugin architect.

I have a lot of respect all of you plugin designers and coders who make your services available to the rest of us, thanks again ??