Sitemap Whitelist for Yoast

Whitelist-based indexing and Yoast SEO sitemap filtering for WordPress. Only the URLs in your whitelist stay indexable and appear in Yoast-generated sitemaps — everything else is forced to noindex, follow and dropped from the sitemap.

Requires the Yoast SEO plugin. It hooks Yoast's wpseo_robots and wpseo_sitemap_entry filters and otherwise stays out of the way.

Features

• Manage a URL whitelist from Settings → Sitemap Whitelist.
• Uniform across every Yoast sitemap type (posts, pages, taxonomies, archives, authors) — matching is by URL/path, not content type.
• Absolute URLs (https://example.com/pricing) and relative paths (/pricing).
• Normalizes + de-duplicates on save; CSV import/export; whitelist-health counts.
• Safe by default: an empty whitelist is a no-op (never an empty sitemap).
• Yoast-inactive guard; fully translatable (languages/*.pot).

Installation

Install Yoast SEO, then upload this plugin via Plugins → Add New → Upload Plugin, activate it, and add your URLs under Settings → Sitemap Whitelist.

Development

composer install
npm install

composer lint          # PHPCS (WordPress Coding Standards)
composer test          # PHPUnit (mocked-WP unit suite)
composer test:e2e      # Cypress e2e (needs a running site)
composer plugin-check   # WordPress Plugin Check against the built dist
composer check         # full gate: lint + test + e2e + plugin-check
composer build-zip     # build the distribution zip

Git hooks (composer install-hooks) run lint + tests on commit. e2e and Plugin Check expect an isolated Lando site (swy.lndo.site) with WordPress + Yoast SEO; override LANDO_PROJECT_DIR / CYPRESS_BASE_URL for other layouts.

License

GPL-2.0-or-later.