By default the Sitemap module of the Jetpack plugin for WordPress does not include custom post types in its generated sitemap.xml.

I’m going to demonstrate some methods for adding this functionality to your WordPress website:

Method 1 – Add to an existing array

This site uses a custom portfolio post-type that is created in the theme’s functions.php, this is how it looks:

//* Create portfolio custom post type
add_action( 'init', 'bayareawebs_portfolio_post_type' );
function bayareawebs_portfolio_post_type() {
 
	register_post_type( 'portfolio',
		array(
			'labels' => array(
				'name'          => __( 'Portfolio', 'bayareawebs' ),
				'singular_name' => __( 'Portfolio', 'bayareawebs' ),
			),
			'has_archive'  => true,
			'hierarchical' => true,
			'menu_icon'    => get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/lib/icons/portfolio.png',
			'public'       => true,
			'rewrite'      => array( 'slug' => 'portfolio', 'with_front' => false ),
			'supports'     => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'trackbacks', 'custom-fields', 'revisions', 'page-attributes', 'genesis-seo', 'genesis-cpt-archives-settings' ),
			'taxonomies'   => array( 'portfolio-type' ),
 
		)
	);
 
}

On line 16 simply add ‘jetpack_sitemap_post_types’, the end result will look like this

'supports'     => array( 'title', 'editor', 'author', 'thumbnail', 'excerpt', 'trackbacks', 'custom-fields', 'revisions', 'page-attributes', 'genesis-seo', 'genesis-cpt-archives-settings', 'jetpack_sitemap_post_types'

Method 2 – Add Filter in Functions.php

This method is a bit more dirty than the last, it is copied from this page in the WordPress forums. Simply copy and paste this into your functions.php and replace your_post_type with the the post type you want to add.

function jeherve_add_cpt_sitemaps( $post_types ) {
	$post_types[] = 'your_post_type';
	return $post_types;
}
add_filter( 'jetpack_sitemap_post_types', 'jeherve_add_cpt_sitemaps' );

Method 3 – Edit the Jetpack Plugin

This isn’t a very good method as a plugin update will overwrite it. You can head to /wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/sitemaps/sitemap.php and on line 268 add an extra post type, it would look something like this:

$post_types    = apply_filters( 'jetpack_sitemap_post_types', array( 'post', 'page', 'portfolio' ) );

Last Step

Publish and delete a post or page, that will run a cron job to generate a new sitemap.

Add Custom Post Types to Jetpack Sitemap

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