Xmap 
Version
2.3.3 (last update on Apr 19, 2013)
Rating
Compatibility
Reviews
280
License
GPLv2 or later
Non-Commercial
Type
Date Added
16 September 2007
Uses Updater?
- Yes
* Capability to create more than one sitemap with different preferences for each sitemap.
* Generation of XML sitemaps compatible with Google, Yahoo, Bing and others.
* Cache system to allow a fastest sitemap generation. Ideally for large or high traffic sites. You can enable or disable this feature independently for each sitemap.
* Exclude easily any menu item from your site map directly from the frontend
* Option to compress the XML sitemap
* Better presentation of the XML sitemap on browsers.
* Compatibility with Joomla 1.5, Joomla 1.6 and Joomla 1.7
* You can specify the priority and change frequency params for each menu and now for every item in your site map.
* You can change the priority and change frequency for every item in your sitemap.
* Shows some statistical information for each sitemap:
o Las visit date.
o Number of links generated on the last visit.
o Number of visits.
* There is available a lot of plugins for the most popular components: Zoom, DOCman, VirtueMart, Fireboard, SMF, Hot Property, SOBI2, Mosets Tree, MyBlog, RSG and many others.
* Customization for each extension
I always read the reviews to see how other people had found an extension so I was reluctant to use this extension after reading very mixed reviews. However, it worked for me and looks great - simple, clean, easy to follow for my visitors. I had to play around with it a bit, but once I worked out to create a sitemap, then link it to the menu (just like you link an article to a menu) then it worked. I played around with settings to get just what I wanted it to look like. I still do not understand the priority, but I discovered I could move the menus around to the order I wanted so I am happy. Thanks.
I have installed the version 2.3.0 to my Joomla!2.5.4 and it just want work. I cannot even open the component, it just generate error. So, I uninstalled and try few more times but the error is the same.
So I have to say... if it works for you, well that´s good, but if you are looking for sitemap generator then save your time by using something else.
Errors make me go crazy, I hate when things are not tested well enough and when I spend a lot of time doing stuff that does not lead me anywhere.
So I have to say... if it works for you, well that´s good, but if you are looking for sitemap generator then save your time by using something else.
Errors make me go crazy, I hate when things are not tested well enough and when I spend a lot of time doing stuff that does not lead me anywhere.
Owner's reply
Hi, I'm sorry you are having issues but it's because the version of Joomla you are using, you should consider upgrading to 2.5.8 to fix this issue. There are many security issues on 2.5.4 anyways.
I order to make Xmap compatible with 3.0 I have to make some modifications and that makes it incompatible with older versions of Joomla.
I've been a happy user of XMAP for years on multiple Joomla 1.x.x sites.
I have tried getting version 2.3.0 to work with a Joomla 3.0.2 site I'm working on but have been unsuccessful. The component installs just fine, but in this version is unable to create a new sitemap. I have posted to the authors "Bugs" forum with the title of "Joomla 3 issue with XmapHelper class" to track this issue.
I look forward to seeing the issue resolved. Thanks for all the great work on this component.
I have tried getting version 2.3.0 to work with a Joomla 3.0.2 site I'm working on but have been unsuccessful. The component installs just fine, but in this version is unable to create a new sitemap. I have posted to the authors "Bugs" forum with the title of "Joomla 3 issue with XmapHelper class" to track this issue.
I look forward to seeing the issue resolved. Thanks for all the great work on this component.
It says to be compatible with Joomla 3, but it isn't. The extension installs but when you publish a sitemap and visit it from the frontpage, it shows an error 500 with a MySQL error. I contacted the author and am waiting for a fix...
If you want a non fuss way to imclude a sitemap, then this is the component you should add to every Joomla site you manage/create.
Create the sitemap through the component, link to it through one of your menus (normally Sitemap) and you get an HTML linkable sitemap to each page of your site. Monkey business EASY!!!! Congrats to the developers!!
Create the sitemap through the component, link to it through one of your menus (normally Sitemap) and you get an HTML linkable sitemap to each page of your site. Monkey business EASY!!!! Congrats to the developers!!
I installed this on my new Joomla 2.5.6 site and enabled the special plugins to go with my special components... and the sitemap was completely empty! It didn't even recognize my Joomla articles much less the addon component pages. I doublechecked everything, enabled and unenabled and enabled again, but it was just an empty sitemap. I've used xmap in the past so not unfamiliar with it...
I've been using the XML-Sitemap generator on my Joomla sites. It's not a Joomla component but it does have a Joomla configuration and it read all 2900 pages on my site accurately with no arguments. And Google webmaster tools accepted my Sitemap without argument. So I'll continue to use that.
I expected a favored Google component to work better, but I was disappointed.
I've been using the XML-Sitemap generator on my Joomla sites. It's not a Joomla component but it does have a Joomla configuration and it read all 2900 pages on my site accurately with no arguments. And Google webmaster tools accepted my Sitemap without argument. So I'll continue to use that.
I expected a favored Google component to work better, but I was disappointed.
XMap is a very good sitemap extension and we can even say it is near to perfection at some nearest point, except that it is not really compatible with Joomla 2.5, in fact, it is, but not compatible with Joomla 2.5 built-in multi-language feature, if you are running a website with Joomla 2.5 for only one language but if you are running 2 websites on Joomla 2.5, XMap become useless as it cannot create sitemap for two languages!
It would be nice if the developer could have a look at this issue as it is a very important factor for all developers and websites offering more than one language.
It would be nice if the developer could have a look at this issue as it is a very important factor for all developers and websites offering more than one language.
We've been using Xmap for over 2 years on 1.5 and it is great... does all we need and we have over 100 sites using it.
Now we've started developing on 2.5 we've discovered a big limitation - it does not display Joomla Blog Articles... a massive limitation for us.
We contacted support many weeks ago and absolutely nothing... there seems to be no one home.
I am really disappointed about this as there is no substitute on 2.5 that is anything like as good as Xmap on 1.5.
Now we've started developing on 2.5 we've discovered a big limitation - it does not display Joomla Blog Articles... a massive limitation for us.
We contacted support many weeks ago and absolutely nothing... there seems to be no one home.
I am really disappointed about this as there is no substitute on 2.5 that is anything like as good as Xmap on 1.5.
I downloaded Xmap after I watched Jen Krammer from Lynda.com for creating site maps.
It seems good. However, it is very unprofessional compared to other extensions.
I could not configure my site map in the way I would like.
-There was a stupid green stick icon next to each link.
-The sitemap doesn't break in columns if you have a long menu.
-I cannot remove the title(name)of the menu.
-Sometimes, the order of the menus is weird. i.e. The footer menu was first (on the right) and the main menu was second (on the left).
-I have a bilingual site and it doesn't recognize other than latin.
I didn't try support. I was already dispirited from what I saw on the reviews.
Don't install except if you wish to have an unprofessional site map or you can't do otherwise.
If the developer decide to develop it further or support it better, I will definitely follow him.
It seems good. However, it is very unprofessional compared to other extensions.
I could not configure my site map in the way I would like.
-There was a stupid green stick icon next to each link.
-The sitemap doesn't break in columns if you have a long menu.
-I cannot remove the title(name)of the menu.
-Sometimes, the order of the menus is weird. i.e. The footer menu was first (on the right) and the main menu was second (on the left).
-I have a bilingual site and it doesn't recognize other than latin.
I didn't try support. I was already dispirited from what I saw on the reviews.
Don't install except if you wish to have an unprofessional site map or you can't do otherwise.
If the developer decide to develop it further or support it better, I will definitely follow him.
For my Joomla 2.5.6 installed this package:pkg_com_xmap-2.2.1.zip, which didn't was very succesful: triple links in the sitemap.
After this I uninstalled everything, the component AND the plug-ins.
Then re-installed JUST the component.
Now it works as it should.
Maybe this review can help some others.
After this I uninstalled everything, the component AND the plug-ins.
Then re-installed JUST the component.
Now it works as it should.
Maybe this review can help some others.
This is an ext that I have been using for some time so I was a bit surprised to have any problems on reinstalling. To cut a long story short in the end I closed all other components and system plugins, installed Xmap and made the changes I wanted, then reopened components and plugins. All is well and working how it should be. (Joomla ver 1.5.26) Thought it would be worth sharing.
i have this comp intstalled on my site and thanks for the tips and tricks on submision to google, my only problem is when I try to run a sitemap generator tool it I get a 500 internal sever error any sugestions to my situation would be great thanks to the developers of this component
Easy install, fast setup. Instructions are a little outdated but most developers can figure it out without any. Once the sitemap was created, I copied the link to the sitemap and pasted it into Google's webmaster tools/Sitemap Registry and it worked great! Honestly, the who process of downloading this extension, installing it, and setting it up took less than 5 minutes.
Yes it's free and yes most things are working. BUT, if you will experience any kind of error, and you are not able to solve it on your own, than you will be lost.
The developers do not care about users who have problems with this component. If you take a look at the forum, you will see, that nobody is helping the people there. :-(
The developers do not care about users who have problems with this component. If you take a look at the forum, you will see, that nobody is helping the people there. :-(
Owner's reply
Thanks for your review, I'm sorry you had issues and I wasn't able to help you at that moment but if you take a look at the forum you will see that I have 1510 posts helping people with issues, but you are right, it's not the best support but is what I can do on my free time.
Thanks again for your review, I will try to provide a better support now.
Very easy and intuitive, it worked like charm on some of my projects however with large Virtuemart sites where I have more than 10k items, it takes too much time to generate the xml sitemap and I was forced to code something on my own. A good product anyway.
Latest Xmap 2.2.1 creates duplicate links for Kunena. It creates both index and non index url's. This issues was fixed in 1.5 by one of the Kunena developers but was not transferred into the newest Joomla 2.5 compatible Xmap. Very disappointing, I've posted messages on the Xmap forum and contacted them. No response...
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