Disable WP Sitemaps
Disables the automatically generated WP Sitemaps.
5(10 reviews)
·10K+ active installs·Updated 1 week agoAs of April 2026, Disable WP Sitemaps is a WordPress disable plugin with 10K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 10 reviews. It has been downloaded 118K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.4+ and PHP 5.6.20+. Available on WordPress.org since 2020. Actively maintained — updated within the last month. Downloads are down 7% this week. Top alternative: Classic Widgets.
5/510 reviews
10K+active installs
118K+total downloads
6 yearssince 2020
Overview
This plugin prevents WordPress from adding its own sitemaps.
Also stops WordPress from adding a sitemap rule to the virtual robots.txt file.
👉 Uses only 1KB of code, so super lightweight, fast, and effective.
Features
- Lightweight – only one line of code
- Simple to use – activate and done
- No settings to worry about
- Easy peasy.
About WP Sitemaps
You can check your WP Sitemap located at /wp-sitemap.xml
Your sitemap should look similar to this.
For more information about WP Sitemaps:
Privacy
This plugin does not collect or store any user data. It does not set any cookies, and it does not connect to any third-party locations. Thus, this plugin does not affect user privacy in any way.
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Simple. Easy. Just Works.
by nyxmidnight·1 year ago
Does exactly what it says on the tin, no bloat, no extraneous (and useless) features. It does one thing and it does that one thing perfectly. Love it.
I use my own sitemap, disable Yoast sitemap, and use this to disable WP sitemaps
by JJulien·1 year ago
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Works Really Well!
by caroltheo·2 years ago
This plugin works very well – does what it says on the tin!
Easy Solution for a bad Design
by LSBK·2 years ago
Thank you!
Thank you!
by wardencenter·4 years ago
Always worry when something needs to be added to functions.php, because I know I’ll forget about it when a theme update rolls around. Thanks for this simple, and so useful, plugin! It just works.
Cheers
Download Trends
Today: 62Yesterday: 63This week: 373Period total: 37K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.4+ requiredTested up to 7.0 |
| PHP | 5.6.20+ required |
Version Adoption
v1.8
96.4%
Other
3.6%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
If you like Disable WP Sitemaps, please take a moment to give a 5-star rating. It helps to keep the plugin going strong, and is greatly appreciated.
1.8.7 (2026/01/29)
- Improves readme.txt documentation
- Tests on PHP 8.4 and 8.5
- Tests on WordPress 6.9
Full changelog @
Contributors
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