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Sitemap by BestWebSoft – WordPress XML Site Map Page Generator Plugin
It builds great sitemaps but hates your staging environment.
HealthyDeclining
70/100
The plugin generates reliable sitemaps but the licensing system causes major issues on development servers.
Active installs
~25,000
our estimate · wp.org shows 20k+
Rating
4.3★
115 ratings
Trend · vs a year ago
-58%
Declining fast
115 → 48 installs/day
What to watch out for
- MINORdownloads down 58% vs a year ago
Downloads over time
real new installs per day · release spikes shown separately from the trend2025-04-302025-08-082025-11-162026-02-232026-06-03
organicrelease spikerelease tailorganic trend · 14d rolling median
Declining fast · -58% in the last year
115/day a year ago→48/day today
Reviews
what people actually saySitemap by BestWebSoft is generally well-regarded as a lightweight, reliable sitemap generator that works where others fail, but the premium licensing mechanism is a significant pain point for developers managing staging environments, and multilingual setups can produce inconsistent sitemap output.
What people like
- +Works reliably for generating sitemaps, including cases where competing plugins like Yoast fail×3
- +Free version is considered sufficient for small sites×2
- +Fast and lightweight×2
Common complaints
- −Premium licensing mechanism forces deactivation of all sites — including live ones — when a development/staging server is detected, making debugging difficult
- −Developers are unresponsive to licensing complaints, leading at least one user to abandon all BestWebSoft products
- −Multilingual sites using Polylang experience inconsistent sitemap output, with URLs for certain languages appearing and disappearing unpredictably based on admin actions
Review trustMostly organic
- 4.23★Verified rating — holds steady vs the raw 4.30★
- 12%One-shot reviewers — most reviewers are active community members
- past spikeReview timing — up to 50% of all reviews landed in a single month
Reviews per month · 5★ vs lower
2024-08-132025-07-092026-06-04
5★ reviews1–4★ reviews
All-time ratings · 115 total
Latest reviews · 90 analyzed
- 2026-05-05★★★★★Хороший плагин4632
- 2024-08-09★★★★★It Did Work with Terrible License MechanismNic Windley
- 2023-06-01★★★★★trash pluginreadysite
- 2022-07-11★★★★★Отличный плагинKarliam.ru
- 2022-05-25★★★★★Simple and workingnearlyheadlessarvie
- 2021-10-14★★★★★Video sitemapkrisbourgeois
- 2021-06-14★★★★★Excellent…boumy
- 2019-05-18★★★★★Nicejosephmambo123
- 2019-02-01★★★★★Really nice pluginchristihero
- 2018-12-24★★★★★Good!dackala
Releases
recent versions from WordPress.org SVNFor developers & the curious
the raw signals behind the grade — none of this is on the friendly summary aboveDownload signals
Baselines are computed on organic days only — release spikes and their tails are excluded, so they're not inflated by the auto-update wave.
45
Baseline · median of last 7 organic days
46
Prior 7-day baseline
109
Floor · 25th percentile over 14 days
1,111
Mean release-day peak (30d)
131
Latest day · 2026-06-03(tail)
-2.2%
Week-over-week organic trend
Review signals
Concentration and drive-by metrics drive the review-burst and fake-review flags. 30–40% solo reviewers is normal; we only flag the extremes.
50%
Max month share · biggest single 30-day window
3.24
Distribution CV · <0.6 even, >1.5 bursty
79%
5★ share in analyzed sample
12%
Solo reviewers · only this one wp.org activity
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Volume velocity · last 6mo vs prior 6mo
4.28 → 4.23★
Sample avg · raw → solo-filtered