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In order to keep the WordPress changelog page clean I’ve moved the changelog for older versions of Companion Sitemap Generator to this page.

ChangelogVersion list:

Version 4
Version 3
Version 2
Version 1

Version 4

4.4.3 (JULY 4, 2022)

  • New: The plugin can now create missing files when needed rather than having you re-activate the plugin
  • Fixed: ACTUALLY added the option to remove the “changefreg” tag from the sitemap
  • Fixed: ALTER TABLE queries slowing down site on some occassions

4.4.1 (FEBRUARY 2, 2022)

  • New: Added option to remove the “changefreg” tag from the sitemap
  • New: Added more option to the auto-updater
  • Tweak: Made some slight improvements to the code
  • Tweak: Fixed a minor styling issue with WP5.9

4.4.0 (APRIL 6, 2021)

  • New: Limit the number of posts shown per block in the HTML sitemap
  • New: Option to add a link to the XML sitemap in the HTML sitemap
  • Tweak: Fixed the overlapping of the robots textfield
  • Tweak: Updated some deprecated functions to newer funtions

4.3.1 (DECEMBER 9, 2020)

  • Fix: Error when adding additional pages
  • Fix: Undefined variable when saving settings

4.3.0 (NOVEMBER 24, 2020)

  • Fix: Sometimes settings wouldn’t save
  • Fix: Sometimes some pages wouldn’t get excluded
  • Fix: Translation URLs will only get added if the translation is actually published
  • Notice: We’ve made some big changes to the database connection, making it better and safer but this does mean that some settings might get lost in the process

4.2.0 (JULY 11, 2020)

  • New: We can notify search engines about changes made
  • Tweak: Only load frontend stylesheet on the HTML sitemap page when gutenberg block is used
  • Tweak: Hard-coded headings in sitemap listing are no longer hard-coded
  • Fix: Some columns wouldn’t display properly on mobile devices

4.1.0 (MARCH 11, 2020)

  • New: A better, cleaner dashboard. We’ve also moved support, settings and the robots editor to here
  • New: Additional pages, add pages outside of your WordPress installation to your sitemaps
  • Tweak: Support for WordPress 5.4
  • Tweak: Minor security improvements

4.0.4 (JANUARY 10, 2020)

  • Fixed issue where the sitemap wouldn’t load in the backend
  • Various security improvements

4.0.3 (JANUARY 5, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue where sometimes you couldn’t uncheck an item in the content filter

4.0.2 (JANUARY 4, 2020)

  • Fixed an issue where the XML sitemap would seem blank
  • Fixed an issue where sometimes the settings wouldn’t actually save

4.0.1 (JANUARY 3, 2020)

  • Removed shortcode generator in favor of Gutenberg block
  • Moved settings to new tab called “Settings” and gave the dashboard a redesign
  • Renamed the “Exclusion” tab to “Content filter”
  • Fixed a few (minor) errors
  • Made some under the hood security and performance improvements

4.0 (JANUARY 2, 2020)

  • New: We’ve added a fancy shiny gutenberg block to replace the shortcode

Version 3

3.9.1 (NOVEMBER 7, 2019)

  • Tweak: Only load frontend stylesheet on the HTML sitemap page

3.9.0 (SEPTEMBER 27, 2019)

  • New: Option to disable XML stylesheet

3.8.9 (SEPTEMBER 20, 2019)

  • Actually added XML styling
  • Added option to use custom XML stylesheet

3.8.8 (AUGUST 7, 2019)

  • New: XML sitemap now has styling added
  • Fixed: Few minor errors

3.8.7 (AUGUST 3, 2019)

  • New: Multilingual categories, terms etc. will now show up in the proper format on XML sitemap
  • Fixed: Few minor errors
  • Tweak: All items in HTML sitemap now have an unique class

3.8.6 (MAY 16, 2019)

  • Fix: Error: Cannot modify header information

3.8.5 (APRIL 6, 2019)

  • Fix: Variable mismatch error

3.8.4 (MARCH 12, 2019)

  • Actually added the option to exclude items in taxonomies

3.8.3 (MARCH 12, 2019)

  • Added hierarchy to categories
  • Option to exclude items in taxonomies (Categories, Tags and More)

3.8.2 (MARCH 7, 2019)

  • Few changes in HTML sitemap classes

3.8.1 (FEBRUARY 27, 2019)

  • Security improvements

3.8.0 (FEBRUARY 22, 2019)

  • New: Added support for Post tags and Custom taxonomies
  • Fix: Fixed a few minor errors

3.7.4 (FEBRUARY 20, 2019)

  • New: New support page
  • New: Exclude categories option
  • Improvement: On the HTML sitemap custom post types no longer show as Post type: {identifier} but now show using the proper name
  • Improvement: Some security improvements
  • Fix: Fixed a few errors when saving settings
  • BETA: Few fixes for new gutenberg block beta

3.7.3

  • We no longer create a robots file on activation, instead you’ll have to enable this yourself.

3.7.2

  • New: We’re working hard on a Gutenberg block to “replace” the shortcode. If you’d like to give feedback on this button you can start testing it with this version 
  • Fixed: Undefined index page error
  • Fixed: Exclude Posts table being a bit off
  • Fixed: Call to undefined function error

3.7.1

  • New: We’re working hard on a Gutenberg block to “replace” the shortcode. If you’d like to give feedback on this button you can start testing it with this version

3.7.0

  • Fix: Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilitie
  • Removed add to content button for old editor

3.6.6

  • HTML sitemap columns work properly again
  • HTML sitemap now has Level 3 hierarchy (still working on even deeper levels)

3.6.5

  • Re-enabled post-exclusion and robots editor for multisite

3.6.4

  • Fix for multisite issues.

3.6.3

  • Multisite support stopped working, the sitemaps are fixed but settings are temporarily disabled on sub-sites.

3.6.2

  • Fix: HTML sitemap would look distorted when post types were hidden or empty

3.6.1

  • Fix: Error: unexpected ‘[‘

3.6

  • Fix: Multisite support
  • Fix: Error with & sign in search console

3.5.5

  • New: Set auto-update schedule, how often should the sitemap be updated?

3.5.0

  • New: HTML sitemap: Show in 2 columns
  • New: HTML sitemap: Sort by date or name
  • New: HTML sitemap: Order ASC or DESC

3.4.5

  • Dashboard redesign
  • Add HTML sitemap tab (settings coming up)

3.4.1

  • Added Hungarian translations

3.3.5

  • New: Added categories to the sitemap

3.3.1

  • Exclude posts fix for multiple languages

3.3.0

  • New: Support for multilingual (only works with Polylang atm)

3.2.0

  • New: Added lastmodified to sitemap
  • New: Added changefreq to sitemap

3.1.6

  • Fix: Undefined variable: charset_collate

3.1.5

  • Fix: Undefined index: page error
  • Fix: Undefined index: tabbed error

3.1.4.

  • Fix: Few strings were not translatable

3.1.3

  • Improvement: HTML sitemap pages now have hierarchy

3.1.2

  • Fix: Pages not being added to sitemap

3.1.1

  • Fix: Update not working

3.1.0

  • New: Exclude post types.
  • New: Added classes to the HTML sitemap list to allow styling.
  • New: Added button to quicker insert HTML sitemap into a page.
  • Fix: Empty post types are no longer shown in HTML sitemap.

3.0.3

  • Few minor fixes

3.0.2

  • Fix: Some strings could not be translated.
  • Fix: You could not exclude posts from multiple post types.
  • Improvement: Minor dashboard improvement.
  • New: Update sitemap from plugin dashboard.

3.0.1

  • Fix: After selecting posts all posts were selected

3.0

  • Completely rewrote the plugin fixing sooo many bugs
  • Fix: Better errors
  • Fix: auto-updating of sitemap
  • New: HTML-sitemap shortcode
  • New: Sitemap is updated every hour
  • New: Better robots dashboard
  • New: Better sitemap dashboard
  • New: Remove pages/posts etc. from sitemap
  • Improvement: Better dashboard widget
  • Improvement: Cleaner code
  • Improvement: Better update handling

Version 2

2.0.2

  • Fully migrated translations to translate.wordpress.org

2.0.1

  • Fixed: Plugin has no valid header error on fresh install

2.0.0

  • AUTO-UPDATING: Quite a few people asked for this feature, and now it’s here: Auto-update, your sitemap will now update very day, no need to do this mannualy any more.
  • Native support for translations so that anyone can help translate this plugin to their own language.
  • Fully translated to dutch.

Version 1

1.9

  • Fetch post types: Automatically fetch all existing post types
  • Robots.txt editor
  • Exclude pages from sitemap
  • Better buttons & better errors

1.8

  • Ability to add/remove (custom) post types
  • Big redesign of the dashboard

1.7

  • Support for WordPress 4.5
  • Added post support
  • Added Woocommerce Product support
  • It SHOULD work with unlimited pages now (limit was 9000 before)
  • Removed Frequency tag
  • Fixed concept posts/pages being added to sitemap and breaking the sitemap
  • Added formal dutch translation

1.5

  • Dutch language support
  • Minor redesign for dashboard

1.0

  • Initital release
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