Sitemapper_XH automatically creates an XML-Sitemap of your CMSimple_XH installation. For detailed information about Sitemaps see sitemaps.org.
Please do read this documentation, before you encounter any problems!
Sitemapper_XH is a plugin for CMSimple_XH. It requires CMSimple_XH ≥ 1.5.4 and PHP ≥ 4.3.10.
The installation is done as with many other CMSimple_XH plugins. See the CMSimple_XH wiki for further details.
The plugin's configuration is done as with many other CMSimple_XH plugins in the website's back-end. Select Plugins → Sitemapper.
You can change the default settings of Sitemapper_XH in "Config". Hints for the options will be displayed when hovering over the help icons with your mouse. The most important setting is canonical hostname. You should enter the preferred way of calling your domain, i.e. www.example.com or example.com, if that is not already handled correctly by the server configuration.
Localization is done under "Language". You can translate the character strings to your own language (if there is no appropriate language file available), or customize them according to your needs.
Before CMSimple_XH 1.6, you have to activate the plugin by inserting the following line at the very beginning of your template(s):
<?php sitemapper();?>
Sitemapper_XH makes Sitemaps of your website available. There is a Sitemap index file, and additional Sitemap files for each installed language and subsite. All published pages that are not hidden will be included in the Sitemap. Additionally hidden pages will be included when "ignore hidden pages" is disabled. You can view the generated Sitemaps in the plugin administration under "Available Sitemaps".
The simplest way to make the Sitemap available to search engines is to put the following line to your robots.txt:
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/?sitemapper_index
Of course you have to adjust the URL to your domain name (it's best to just copy and paste the URL to the Sitemap index file from the plugin administration). Another possibility is to submit your Sitemap to search engines directly (e.g. via the Google Webmaster Tools).
It is possible to override the default settings of "changefreq" and "priority", which are defined in the plugin config, for each page in the pagedata tab "Sitemap" above the editor. For details on this settings, see XML tag definitions.
Sitemapper_XH will only list the actual pages of CMSimple_XH's content. Additional content that is managed by plugins, e.g. forums or blogs, will not be included to the Sitemap file.
Sitemapper_XH is licensed under GPLv3.
© 2011-2015 Christoph M. Becker
Czech translation © 2011-2012 Josef Němec
Polish translation © 2012 Kamill Krzes
Slovak translation © 2012 Dr. Martin Sereday
Estonian translation © 2013 Alo Tänavots
Sitemapper_XH was inspired by Simmyne.
The plugin logo was designed by Wendell Fernandes. Many thanks for publishing this icon as freeware.
This plugin uses free applications icons from Aha-Soft. Many thanks for making these icons freely available.
Many thanks to the community at the CMSimple_XH-Forum for tips, suggestions and testing. Particularly I want to thank Ulrich for being the first beta tester of Sitemapper_XH. And many thanks to sareide, who detected a severe bug regarding the URLs of subsite/second language pages.
Last but not least many thanks to Peter Harteg, the "father" of CMSimple, and all developers of CMSimple_XH, without whom this amazing CMS wouldn't exist.