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Hierarchical HTML Sitemap

Hierarchical HTML Sitemap

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Example of a sitemap.

Example of a sitemap.

Hierarchical HTML Sitemap offers visitors an easy and intuitive way to navigate your blog.

This plugin generates an HTML sitemap of your WordPress blog. It displays a list of posts grouped by hierarchically sorted categories. By using a shortcode, you can display it on a page or anywhere else that supports shortcodes, such as a widget.

The output does not include CSS or JavaScript files. It is pure HTML, ready to inherit or receive your theme’s styles.

Features

  • Short and easy shortcode: [htmlmap].
  • Categories sorted hierarchically.
  • Displays posts and/or pages.
  • Can exclude specified posts, pages, or categories.
  • Displays category navigation above the posts list.
  • Displays post publication dates.
  • Clean HTML without scripts.
  • Does not enqueue unnecessary JavaScript or CSS files.
  • No ads or author links in the output.

Usage and options

The [htmlmap] shortcode accepts these optional attributes:

  • exclude: post or page IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude="445,446"].
  • exclude_cat: category IDs to omit, for example [htmlmap exclude_cat="1,34"].
  • showpages: display the list of pages, for example [htmlmap showpages].
  • hidecloud: hide category navigation, for example [htmlmap hidecloud].
  • showdescription: display category descriptions, for example [htmlmap showdescription].
  • hidedate: hide post publication dates, for example [htmlmap hidedate].
  • hidecount: hide post counts in category headings, for example [htmlmap hidecount].

You can combine attributes, for example:

[htmlmap exclude="3546,7398" exclude_cat="1,34" showpages hidecloud]

HTML structure and CSS classes

The shortcode preserves existing category heading IDs (cat_<term-id>), the
category navigation class (cat), and the empty-category class (null).

Additional classes are available for theme customisation:

  • htmlmap-post-list: each category’s post list.
  • htmlmap-post: each post list item.
  • htmlmap-children: the list item containing child categories.
  • htmlmap-empty-category: added alongside the legacy null class.
  • htmlmap-category-description: a displayed category description.
  • htmlmap-page-list: the optional pages list.
  • htmlmap-page: each page list item.

Child categories are rendered after their parent category’s posts inside a
dedicated list item, rather than inside the final post item.

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