Better WordPress Google XML Sitemaps

The plugin provides support for big search engines like Bing, Yahoo, Ask and of course Google.

Comes with lots of settings for customizing the behavior based on the site content and publishing activity.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Features:

• Custom sitemaps using modules
• Multi-site support
• Sitemapindex support
• Detailed log and debugging mode
• Caching
• XSLT stylesheet styling

What is new in this release:

• Marked as WordPress 4.0 compatible.
• Added `bwp_gxs_excluded_posts` filter hook to page sitemap module. It should be possible to use an array of page ids to exclude certain pages from the page sitemap.
• Added a `News name` setting (in *XML Sitemaps >> Google News Sitemap*).
• Other minor fixes and enhancements.

What is new in version 1.3.0:

• New features:
• Added a new setting to control which post types can be used to ping search engines
• Added a ping limit setting
• Added a "Save changes and Flush cache" button
• Enhancements:
• Plugin's admin areas have been re-organized to be easier to use.
• Updated all sitemap modules with easier to use APIs.
• Last modified dates are now more properly handled.
• Error log has been refined to be more friendly and useful.
• Post types that do not have any post should not be listed in sitemapindex.xml by default.
• Posts that are password-protected should not be listed in sitemap files.
• Be more selective when pinging search engines, this is to avoid double pinging when using plugin like Snitch.

What is new in version 1.2.3:

• Temporary fix for unexpected character that appears on every page.

What is new in version 1.2.0:

• Added a Google News sitemap module. Creating a news sitemap has never been so easy! More information can be found here.
• WPMU Domain Mapping is now supported better (robots.txt, site.xml, sitemap urls in Statistics tab).
• BWP GXS's menu can now be put under Settings using a simple filter.
• BWP GXS's admin style is now enqueued correctly so no more warning from WordPress.
• Added a Traditional Chinese and a Romanian transation, thanks to Richer Yang and Luke Tyler!
• All invalid URls, such as # and external or empty ones, are now removed from sitemaps.
• Removed Yahoo's pinging service.
• Fixed a bug that causes duplicate author entries to appear in author sitemap.
• Fixed a bug that causes a "class not found" error with paginated custom post type sitemap modules.

What is new in version 1.1.6:

• Temporary fix for 1.1.5's broken custom post type URL issue.

Requirements:

• WordPress 3 or higher