Smart Sitemap

Gives you full control over sitemap, allows to select different elements (products, categories etc), set their change frequency, priority and much more. Supports multiple languages, images and unlimited number of products. Tested on 100.000+ products.

Features

Can literally handle unlimited number of products.Tested on 100000+ products with images!Adds all product images, not just the main one. Uses name (title) and description as image title and caption.Select sitemaps to create: products, categories, manufacturers, information pages or images.Automatically creates static XML files with sitemap for each language, no need to click any buttons.Supports SEF URLs, multiple stores and multiple languages, works right from the box, very easy to handle.

19.95EUR

Compatibility: OpenCart 2.0+, 3.0+

Current version: 2.2.0

Why Smart Sitemap?

Smart Sitemap is the most sophisticated sitemap extension on the market. It uses standard XML functions, which always return properly generated XML file, acceptable by all search engines. It not only allows you to select different types of sitemaps (products, categories, etc.), but individual items as well. You can add only information, which you want to see in sitemap, not every possible item from your store. No other extension can do that! But the best part, it can literally handle unlimited number of products.

Screenshots

19.95EUR

Demo

Extension's settings can be found in Extensions -> Feeds section on backend of our demo site (username: demo, password: demo).

Backend Demo

Change Log

3.1.0

OpenCart 3 Compatibility Fixes extension is not needed anymore. You may remove it.

3.0.0

Added OpenCart 3 compatibility.

2.2.1

FIXED: Sitemap is not properly generated in multistore setup.
Minor improvements.

2.2.0

Sitemap is now automatically divided into several files: index, products, categories, manufacturers and information.
All sitemap files are now displayed in browser styled and human readable.
Sitemap files are now checked for maximum number of links and automatically divided into several chunks.
ADDED: Link Limit option to define maximum number of links per sitemap file (50000 max).
ADDED: Add Products option to turn on/off product links in categories and manufacturers sitemaps.
ADDED: Images are now added to sitemap for manufacturers as well.
FIXED: Priority and frequency values for category and manufacturer products do not follow category settings.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

2.1.2

ADDED: Language code is now added to session for better compatibility with some SEO packs.
ADDED: Sitemap is now saved with language code, if used (e.g.: sitemap-en.xml).
FIXED: Improper sitemap link displayed in extension settings.
FIXED: Sitemap is not properly saved on OpenCart installations with subfolder.
Sitemap filename should now be entered without .xml extension.
Minor improvements and bug fixes.

2.1.1

Minor improvements.

2.1.0

OpenCart 1.5 support completely removed.
ADDED: Processed Items option for products, categories, manufacturers and informations to add only selected items to sitemap.
FIXED: Minor incompatibilities with OpenCart 2.2 and 2.3.
FIXED: Product name is not properly escaped.
Improved feedback.
Minor improvements and code optimization.

2.0.2

ADDED: Resized Image option to choose between resized or original image.
ADDED: Resize Width and Resize Height options to resize original image to given values.
ADDED: Compatibility with language tags in URLs.
FIXED: Wrong links to category and manufacturer images.
Minor improvements.

2.0.1

Extension now fully compatible with OpenCart 2.1.
Minor bug fixes and improvements.

2.0.0

Initial release.

Documentation

Installation instructions

You can install extension using Extension Installer or manually. In the latter case unpack and upload all folders from "upload" directory to the root of your store. If there's install.xml file in the package, rename it to extension_name.ocmod.xml, replacing "extension_name" with extension's name (or any other name), and upload it to "system" folder. When upgrading from previous version simply rewrite all existing files. Refresh modifications cache from Extensions -> Modifications page (not needed if install.xml file is not included in the package).

Note for OpenCart 3 users

If you see "The directory is not allowed to be written to" error message, download OpenCart 3.0 Extension Installer Fix from this page and install it. Then install the main extension.

Note for OpenCart 2.0.X users

Sometimes OCMod inserts modification in multiple files, which are separated by "|" character in XML-file. On earlier OpenCart 2 versions a comma was used instead. To quickly fix this, open XML file (usually, install.xml) and replace all occurrences of "|" character with "," for "path" attribute in every applicable <file> element. Search for "<file path=" to quickly find and highlight all elements.

If after installation you have "Permission denied" issue when accessing Modules, Shipping, Payments, Order Totals (or any other) section of Extensions menu, remove "module", "shipping", "payment", "total" (or any other) folder from "admin/controller/extension" directory. Same for "admin/language/en-gb/extension" directory. For example ("module" should be removed from both paths):

admin/controller/extension/module
admin/language/en-gb/extension/module

Permissions

In some cases it is required to manually set permissions for installed extension. To do this go to System -> User Groups, find your group and select access/modify permissions for desired extension. You can find extension in permissions list by folder/filename pair (for example, marketing/acoupon).

Extension Setup

Go to Extension -> Feeds and setup Smart Sitemap extension according to your needs.

How to use

When you done with setup, you need to submit sitemap to desired search engine. If you don't have much products, use standard URL with dynamically generated sitemap:

http://yourstore.com/index.php?route=feed/sitemaps

For stores with large number of products it's recommended to use static sitemap:

http://yourstore.com/sitemap.xml

To update static sitemap automatically, you can create a cron job with desired run time:

lynx -source 'http://yourstore.com/index.php?route=feed/sitemaps' > /dev/null

Smart Sitemap will create multiple XML-files in "sitemaps" folder for products, categories, manufacturers and informations separately:

http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/product.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/category.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/manufacturer.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/information.xml

When number of links in particular sitemap reaches the limit, a corresponding number of files will be created instead of one:

http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/product-1-sitemap.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/product-2-sitemap.xml

All these features allow you to create smaller sitemaps for unlimited number of items (products, categories, etc) and avoid sitemaps with too large file size.

Multiple languages

If you have multiple languages installed, you can submit sitemap for each language separately, using "lang" variable with language code in sitemap URL:

http://yourstore.com/index.php?route=feed/sitemaps&lang=de
http://yourstore.com/index.php?route=feed/sitemaps&lang=fr

When you add "lang" variable to sitemap URL, all XML-files will have language code added to their names like this:

http://yourstore.com/sitemap-de.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemap-fr.xml

And for products sitemap:

http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/product-1-sitemap-de.xml
http://yourstore.com/sitemaps/product-2-sitemap-fr.xml

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