Comments on: Make a Sitemap Page For Your WordPress Blog

By: Mrkvoslav

Mrkvoslav — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:52:41 +0000

Unfortunately your great plugin is not working with other plugin Nextgen Gallery. It blocks generating of NG “sigle pictures”.

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 12 May 2008 21:33:46 +0000

Oops! Should have said. The CatTagArt plugin.

By: Leland

Leland — Mon, 12 May 2008 11:01:58 +0000

@AJ: Which plugin are you using?

By: AJ

AJ — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:21:24 +0000

This is a great plugin and it would be even better if it could work with pages as well as posts.
I also have an interesting problem. I have two blogs working in a single database. The two blogs have some categories with the same names. When I put a list of posts in one blog, it also lists posts from the other blog.

By: Leland

Leland — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:03:01 +0000

@Lorelle: Nice to see you here! Oops..I didn’t realize that there was a difference between a site map and a sitemap. Always thought those words were almost interchangeable.

Anyway, I agree that related postings would be useful. But wouldn’t you think even a chronologically sorted list of posts would be helpful as well? As opposed to sifting through several pages of content and excerpts trying to find the post they may be looking for. Thanks for the comment.

By: Lorelle

Lorelle — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:42:53 +0000

This is a great article on site maps, however, some terminology needs to be clarified. A sitemap is the XML version that is hidden from users on your blog. A site map (two words) is the table of contents on your blog. I sure wish I was in charge of naming conventions so people wouldn’t get so confused.

The problem with most site maps is that they are created chronologically. What if the phone book was done that way? What if the dictionary, encyclopedia, and other table of contents listings were done that way? It’s totally useless to the user. They don’t know when something was published.

I recommend to all Plugin developers and designers to skip the chronological order of a site map. It helps no one and is totally useless. Go for categorical lists to group like-content together, a much more useful approach for the user.