Sitemap changes after latest update 1.81

Hi David,

There were some pretty big changes in the last plugin update. You can now specify which post types appear (and the order) via the ‘types’ shortcode attribute.

By default this is set to ‘post’ and ‘page’ post types. To display only pages change your shortcode to

[simple-sitemap types="page"]

Please see the plugin settings page for more details on the new updates.

Thanks for your response David.

I checked out the instructions under Settings and I managed to exclude the pages and posts that didn’t belong there, e.g.:

[simple-sitemap types="page" orderby="ID" exclude="1,2,3"]

‘Order By’ rearranges the order the site map according to the post/page ID. That did half the trick. But the problem at the moment is that two page links are not in the correct order on the site map. Why is this the case? I had these pages re-arranged according to how I wanted by configuring the order number i.e. 1) Home 2) About 3) Products 4) Contact. Does the ‘orderby’ shortcode only identify the ID when the page is first published?

Hi David,

How did you order the pages before, in the previous version?

Are you trying to order the pages according to a particular sort order? i.e. original publish date, modified date, author, title, post ID etc? (you can sort via all these in the new version)

Or are you trying to order the pages manually?

Also, is the publish status of the pages you listed set to ‘published’, to rule out any issues with leaving out draft or pending posts?

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

When I built this site, I first published each page and then changed the order i.e. Page Attributes->Order.

All the pages on my site map are definitely published, and I don’t have any posts pending or anything else saved as a draft.

I think the problem is I first published the third page of my site before I created the second page.

Hi David,

It sounds like you are using a plugin to create a custom sort order. In which case the sitemap plugin probably won’t be able to match that as it just pulls pages from the database sorted via date, date, author, title, post ID etc.

Yes, I knew it would only sort by post ID in the database and not via the custom order.

Thanks for the help anyway.

No problem. Sorry, couldn’t help further.