How to Add Custom Post Types to wp-sitemap.xml

The wp-sitemap.xml file that was added to WordPress back in is super handy.

I use it in my plugin, Click SEO, which is probably the simplest SEO plugin you’ll ever use.

Say you want to programmatically add a WordPress custom post type to your WP Sitemap, though. Here’s how you can do that (by adding this to your functions.php file):


// add a custom post type with the slug 'events' to wp-sitemap.xml
add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_post_types', 'clicknathan_add_post_type_to_sitemap' );

function clicknathan_add_post_type_to_sitemap( $post_types ){
$post_types[] = 'event';
return $post_types;
}

In the example above, we add a post type with the slug event.

There you have it, append /wp-sitemap.xml to your WordPress homepage’s URL and you’ll see the following.

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