Title: wp_sitemaps_enabled
Published: August 11, 2020
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘wp_sitemaps_enabled’, bool $is_enabled )

## In this article

 * [Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#description)
    - [See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#see-also)
 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#changelog)

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Filters whether XML Sitemaps are enabled or not.

## 󠀁[Description](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#description)󠁿

When XML Sitemaps are disabled via this filter, rewrite rules are still in place
to ensure a 404 is returned.

### 󠀁[See also](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#see-also)󠁿

 * [WP_Sitemaps::register_rewrites()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/WP_Sitemaps/register_rewrites/)

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_enabled/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$is_enabled`bool

Whether XML Sitemaps are enabled or not.
 Defaults to true for public sites.

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

    ```php
    return (bool) apply_filters( 'wp_sitemaps_enabled', $is_enabled );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps.php#L104)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/class-wp-sitemaps.php#L104-L104)

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

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

Determines whether sitemaps are enabled or not.

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

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

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