XML Sitemap Generator for Google 4.1.23

Does "XML Sitemap Generator for Google" work with WordPress 7.0 and PHP 8.1.12? A smoke test was performed on .

Summary

Errors
1PHP deprecation warnings
No JavaScript exceptions
All test pages loaded successfully
No resource errors
Performance

Memory usage: 39.64 KiB
The average PHP memory usage increased by this amount after activating by the plugin.

Page speed impact: insignificant.
The plugin didn't make the site noticeably slower.

Environment
WordPress version7.0
PHP version8.1.12
MySQL version10.6.10
PHP memory limit512M
Plugin Info
Last updated
Active installs 1,000,000+
WordPress.org page https://wordpress.org/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
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Pages 3

Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress

Page screenshot: Plugins ‹ Test site — WordPress
URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?plugin_status=all&paged=1&s
Requested URL /wp-admin/plugins.php?action=activate&plugin=google-sitemap-generator%2Fsitemap.php&plugin_status=all&paged=1&s&_wpnonce=d55249ad27
Aspect after-activation
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.033 s
Memory usage 3.95 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Settings → XML-Sitemap

Page screenshot: Settings → XML-Sitemap
URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=google-sitemap-generator%2Fsitemap.php
Requested URL /wp-admin/options-general.php?page=google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php
Aspect menu-item
HTTP status 200
Load time 1.831 s
Memory usage 6.65 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Test site – Just another WordPress site

Page screenshot: Test site – Just another WordPress site
URL /
Aspect front-page
HTTP status 200
Load time 0.244 s
Memory usage 4.28 MiB
JS errors None
Resource errors None

Benchmark

URL Load time Memory usage
Inactive Active Change Inactive Active Change
/wp-admin/index.php0.674 s0.838 s+0.164 s3.93 MiB3.98 MiB+ 56.6 KiB
/wp-admin/edit.php0.543 s0.570 s+0.027 s3.98 MiB4.03 MiB+ 49.33 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php2.086 s1.880 s-0.206 s6.56 MiB6.61 MiB+ 51.72 KiB
/wp-admin/upload.php0.788 s0.739 s-0.049 s3.89 MiB3.91 MiB+ 22.06 KiB
/wp-admin/options-writing.php0.564 s0.538 s-0.026 s3.86 MiB3.89 MiB+ 25.98 KiB
/wp-admin/media-new.php0.625 s0.986 s+0.361 s3.85 MiB3.89 MiB+ 34.17 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category0.536 s0.539 s+0.003 s3.86 MiB3.9 MiB+ 39.34 KiB
/wp-admin/post-new.php?post_type=page1.775 s1.473 s-0.302 s6.55 MiB6.6 MiB+ 47.24 KiB
/wp-admin/options-discussion.php0.723 s0.683 s-0.040 s3.86 MiB3.89 MiB+ 22.48 KiB
/wp-admin/edit-comments.php0.572 s0.544 s-0.028 s3.89 MiB3.91 MiB+ 29.88 KiB
/0.312 s0.211 s-0.101 s4.23 MiB4.28 MiB+ 57.3 KiB
Average 0.836 s0.818 s-0.018 s4.41 MiB4.44 MiB+ 39.64 KiB

Code Statistics

Note: Third-party libraries and minified JS/CSS files are excluded from these statistics where possible, so the numbers you see here may be lower than those reported by other tools.

PO File
PHP
Language % Lines of code Comment lines Files
PO File63.5%10,1276,89229
PHP34.9%5,5651,97010
XSLT1.0%15301
JavaScript0.6%9231
Total 15,937 8,865 41

PHP Code Analysis | More results »

Lines of code 5,569
Total complexity 1,162
Median class complexity 21.0
Median method complexity 2.0
Most complex class GoogleSitemapGenerator
Most complex function GoogleSitemapGeneratorUI::html_show_options_page()
Classes 13
Methods 216
Functions 12

Additions

Things that the plugin adds to the site. This section is not intended to be comprehensive. The test tool only looks for a few specific types of added content.

Options wp_options 4

PHP Error Log 1 lines

[20-May-2026 19:24:34 UTC] PHP Deprecated:  Automatic conversion of false to array is deprecated in /wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php on line 443
See also: All tests for this plugin, How to Hide the "XML-Sitemap" Admin Menu