Title: WP_Sitemaps_Renderer::__construct
Published: August 11, 2020
Last modified: April 28, 2025

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# WP_Sitemaps_Renderer::__construct()

## In this article

 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#changelog)

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[WP_Sitemaps_Renderer](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/)
constructor.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    public function __construct() {
    	$stylesheet_url = $this->get_sitemap_stylesheet_url();

    	if ( $stylesheet_url ) {
    		$this->stylesheet = '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="' . esc_url( $stylesheet_url ) . '" ?>';
    	}

    	$stylesheet_index_url = $this->get_sitemap_index_stylesheet_url();

    	if ( $stylesheet_index_url ) {
    		$this->stylesheet_index = '<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="' . esc_url( $stylesheet_index_url ) . '" ?>';
    	}
    }
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps-renderer.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps-renderer.php#L42)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/6.9.4/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps-renderer.php#L42-L54)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Uses | Description | 
| [WP_Sitemaps_Renderer::get_sitemap_index_stylesheet_url()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/get_sitemap_index_stylesheet_url/)`wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps-renderer.php` |

Gets the URL for the sitemap index stylesheet.

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| [WP_Sitemaps_Renderer::get_sitemap_stylesheet_url()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/get_sitemap_stylesheet_url/)`wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps-renderer.php` |

Gets the URL for the sitemap stylesheet.

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| [esc_url()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/esc_url/)`wp-includes/formatting.php` |

Checks and cleans a URL.

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| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Sitemaps::__construct()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps/__construct/)`wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps.php` |

[WP_Sitemaps](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps/) constructor.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_renderer/__construct/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [5.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.5.0/) | Introduced. |

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