Sitemaps
The Sitemap tab lets you generate and manage XML sitemaps from your Propeller product, category and brand data. Sitemaps help search engines discover and index your commerce pages.
Go to Propeller > Sitemap in your WordPress admin to access these settings.
Generated sitemaps
The plugin generates three types of sitemaps, each created per language configured on your site:
| Sitemap type | Contents |
|---|---|
| Brands | URLs for all brand pages |
| Catalog | URLs for category pages |
| Products | URLs for product detail pages |
Files follow the naming convention propel-sitemap-{type}-{language}-{page}.xml. For example, a site with English and Dutch generates:
propel-sitemap-brands-en-1.xmlpropel-sitemap-brands-nl-1.xmlpropel-sitemap-catalog-en-1.xmlpropel-sitemap-catalog-nl-1.xmlpropel-sitemap-products-en-1.xmlpropel-sitemap-products-nl-1.xml
The number suffix (-1, -2, etc.) handles pagination for large catalogs that exceed the maximum URLs per file.
Each sitemap contains standard <url><loc> entries with the full URL for each page.
Generating sitemaps
Sitemaps can be generated in two ways:
Automatic generation — The plugin runs a scheduled task daily after midnight when the webshop is not under heavy usage. Generation may take a while depending on the size of your catalog.
Manual generation — Click the Generate sitemap button to regenerate immediately. This is useful after making changes to your content or products.
The admin shows a warning when your sitemaps were generated more than 24 hours ago, prompting you to regenerate if you have made recent changes.
Yoast SEO integration
The Sitemap tab shows the status of the Yoast SEO plugin integration.
When Yoast SEO is active, Propeller's sitemap.xml file is not used. Yoast manages the sitemap index instead. The admin links to Yoast's sitemap_index.xml so you can verify the combined sitemap.
When Yoast SEO is not active, Propeller's own sitemap files are served directly.
Next steps
- Multi-site setup — run the plugin across a WordPress Multisite network