How to Create a Site Map Page

You may have noticed the Site Map page on this site. That’s done with the built-in Site Map template, and it’s easy for you to create a site map for your own WP-Magazine Theme driven site.

Step 1 – Write a New Page

Just click the Write Page link under the Write tab on your Wordpress control panel.

Step 2 – Assign the Site Map Page Template to your Page

On the right side of the Write Page console, you’ll see a blue box title “Page Template.” You may have to click the white + sign to expand it. From the drop-down list, select “Site Map Page,” and click the Publish button.

Update – be sure to give your page a page title by filling in the Title field.

That’s it.

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  1. Hi Michael. Where should I paste the Google Analytics code into Presentation > Theme Editor > ? I would appreciate your insight on this subject. I have chosen to submit my question here for the benefit of others with a similar question. Thanks!

  2. Thanks for the question Greg. The best spot for the Google Analytics code would be the Footer template. You can place it just before the </body> tag.

  3. Thanks for the advice, Michael. I found a great plugin for Google Analytics called Ultimate Google Analytics. You can find it at Wordpress.org. Once activated with your GA Account number, it will connect with Google Analytics automatically and will begin generating rich reports!

  4. Hi Greg,

    I have >1000 posts one of my site. How can I make a “paged” archive page?
    In this (original) archive template load very slow this amount of posts.

    Thanks!

  5. Would the Site Map be a suitable replacement for the Google Sitemap plugin? I want to eliminate any unneccesary plugins and was wondering about the built-in template.

  6. I’m curious about that as well, since i’m currently using the site map plugin.

  7. >>>>> Would the Site Map be a suitable replacement for the Google Sitemap plugin?

    Nope. They are completely different things.

    The sitemap on the site is for your users. The Google sitemap is just for Google.

  8. Michael,

    The numbering of my articles in the Site Map page is not working properly. It only shows a single digit, so article #10 for example shows #0.

    You can see it here:

    http://www.brasileirosnosestadosunidos.com/sitemap/

    How can I fix this?

    Thanks,

  9. David:

    Try adding this to the bottom of your stylesheet:

    .post ol.archives {
        margin: 0;
        padding-left: 30px;
        }

  10. Hi David

    I have a problem when I goto ‘page template’ on the ‘write page’ and choose ’site map’. When I publish nothing happens?
    (1) when I select the site map is the code meant to show on the ‘write page’?

    Any way the only way I could get the page to publish is to goto the Theme Editor select the ’site map’ Template the go back to the ‘write page’ and paste the code into the page. Then publish and it works fine?

    I’m assuming it may be a problem with my .htaccess code as wordpress is not running from >root e.g http://www.cornish.co.uk/blog
    If you can think of any solution please give me a shout.

    here is my .htaccess

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /blog/
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /blog/index.php [L]

    Many thanks
    Gavin

  11. Hi Michael,

    Just bought WP-Magazine and am configuring it now.

    Having a few issues, one of which is the same problem as Gavin above. Read through your instructions about on How to Create a Site Map Page. You left out one important step.

    When creating the page on the Write Page page, you need to type in “Site Map” in the page title box. Otherwise, nothing happens.

    After several tries using your directions, I typed in Site Map and then it worked fine.

    So Step #2 should be “Type in ‘Site Map’ in the Title box.”

  12. Hi Michael,

    I’m having the same problem as David. It’s showing single digits (0-9) for the Serial number.

    See:
    http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/sitemap/

  13. Update: This edit you posted earlier worked fine, Michael:

    .post ol.archives {
    margin: 0;
    padding-left: 30px;
    }

  14. It’s awesome, no matter what the complaint, that someone makes a site and then hangs out to offer technical support. You rock, Michael!

  15. Set up my site with this theme in no time flat. Thank you Michael for such a wonderful theme and support!

  16. Michael – We are getting a large number of posts on our site now. How easy would it be to split the Site Map page up? Maybe 50 on one Site Map page with a ‘Next’ link at the bottom for 51-100 – and so on… The 200+ list isn’t very appealing to look over.

    Thanks again!

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  18. how to connect the activated theme in wordpress to our home page link

  19. hi all i need to create a sitemap for my site http://www.diyanswerdirect.com so i can send it to google so my blog http://www.diyanswerdirect.com/blog can get indexed . i hope iam asking in the right place any ideas or sites i can get this information from thankyou

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