Native SEO Sitemap Customizer

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This plugin is now part of Visibility.

Everything this plugin does is bundled into Visibility, a single lightweight
plugin that unifies the three AyudaWP “Native SEO” plugins (Meta Tags, NoIndexer
and Sitemap Customizer) into one, built entirely on WordPress native features.

This plugin still works and stays available, but new features and fixes now go
into Visibility. If you’re setting up a new site, install Visibility
instead of this one.

Moving to Visibility

  1. Install and activate Visibility.
  2. Open its settings, enable the modules you need (Meta Tags, NoIndex, Sitemap)
    and set your site-wide options.
  3. Deactivate this plugin. Visibility reminds you while both are active,
    because running both at once prints duplicate tags.
  4. Check your page source: you should see a single set of tags, from Visibility.

Your settings are not imported automatically in this first version. Site-wide
options take a minute to re-enter. For per-post values (individual noindex/nofollow,
custom titles and descriptions, Open Graph images), deactivate this plugin rather
than deleting it, so the data stays in place for the automatic importer planned
for a future Visibility release.

Support

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About AyudaWP

We are specialists in WordPress security, SEO, AI and performance optimization plugins. We create tools that solve real problems for WordPress site owners while maintaining the highest coding standards and accessibility requirements.

Privacy

This plugin does not collect or store any personal data. It only modifies which URLs appear in your public sitemap.

Instalo

  1. Upload the plugin files to /wp-content/plugins/native-sitemap-customizer/ or install through WordPress plugins screen
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress
  3. Go to Settings > Sitemap to configure your sitemap options
  4. Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools

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Should I install Visibility before or after removing this plugin?

Install and activate Visibility first, configure it, and only then deactivate
this plugin. That way your site is never left without meta tags or sitemap output.
A short overlap with both active is fine; just don’t leave both on long-term.

Will my settings move over automatically?

Not in this first version. Site-wide settings are quick to re-enter on Native AEO
Pack’s settings page. Per-post and per-term values are stored under this plugin’s
own meta keys, which Visibility does not read yet. An importer that moves them
across automatically is planned for a later release.

Can I run both plugins at the same time?

Only briefly, while you set up Visibility. With both active you emit duplicate
tags (or duplicate sitemaps), which hurts SEO, so deactivate this plugin
once Visibility is configured. Visibility detects this plugin and reminds
you on its settings screen.

I have a lot of per-post noindex settings. What’s the safest path?

Deactivate this plugin instead of deleting it: deactivating leaves your data in the
database untouched, ready for the automatic importer in an upcoming release. If you’d
rather not wait, Visibility’s Quick Edit and Bulk Actions let you re-apply
noindex/nofollow across many posts in seconds.

Pritaksoj

Majo 27, 2026 1 reply
Although I like the plugin a lot, I’m only giving it 4 stars because while you can exclude sitelinks easily, there is no way to add additional links, even if the links are in your WP menu (custom links). I found the UI easy to use, but it certainly could be easier and more intuitive. (i.e., how do I enter the slug? is it /blog, blog, or /blog/?) A dropdown list would be even easier to use. In any case, Google was always complaining about bad links (which should not be indexed in the first place). So, this plugin is exactly what I needed. I also have a lot of Google links that are “Discovered – currently not indexed.” I hope this plugin helps resolve this problem too. If there are no links to complain about, maybe it will index the whole website, instead of only a few pages. If you have links that need to be removed from your WP sitemap (yourdomain.com/wp-sitemap.xml), the plugin is a great tool. It does that and nothing else.
Novembro 27, 2025 1 reply
Es un plugin lo he instalado después de que el mapa de RankMath no dejar a de darme problemas en una web en concreto. Y, ahora, ya tengo muy claro que voy a aprovechar el mapa de WP. Y, en lugar de crear un mapa del sitio extra, se integra a la perfección con la funcionalidad nativa de WordPress (wp-sitemap.xml). Además su diseño garantiza que el plugin sea extremadamente liviano y está perfectamente optimizado, ya que aprovecha los recursos que WordPress ya tiene incorporados, logrando una funcionalidad avanzada sin añadir peso innecesario. La experiencia de uso es inmejorable gracias a su sencillez, ofreciendo una interfaz intuitiva que permite un control granular y preciso sobre el mapa del sitio en cuestión de minutos.¡Que me ha encantado! ¿Qué más te puedo decir?Abraham Velázquez de Creando Blog
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1.9.1

  • Fix: cross-promo banner styling at the bottom of the settings page. The CSS rules were chained to a wrapper class and heading level that the markup never used (since 1.8.0), so the “Install” buttons stretched to full column width with WordPress’s default 40px-tall sizing instead of the compact inline layout the rest of the AyudaWP plugins use.

1.9.0

  • New: static sitemap file detector — warns when a physical sitemap.xml, sitemap_index.xml, news-sitemap.xml, etc. exists in the WordPress root. These files are served by the web server before reaching PHP, silently bypassing the native dynamic sitemap and all configuration in this plugin. Includes a one-click “Delete file” button per detected file, with nonce + capability checks and a whitelist of accepted filenames.
  • Improved: cross-promo banner catalog refreshed with three newly published AyudaWP plugins (DietPress, EU Withdrawal Compliance, Terms & Conditions Consent Log).
  • Fix: removed the orphan NSM_Promo_Banner class file. It was superseded by the shared NSEO_Core_Promo_Banner in 1.8.0 but the old file kept shipping unused inside the plugin .zip.
  • Fix: Native SEO Meta Tags now appears again in the cross-promo banner rotation. Since 1.8.0 a duplicate array key was silently overriding its entry, so the slot was effectively unreachable.

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