This is a technical description of the 2.x branch of the module. For the newer 3.x branch see this article.
Version 2.10 of Simple XML sitemap is mainly a feature release with only a few minor bugs fixed. The new features are
Since its relaunch in 2015, the Drupal 7 powered precore.net has been gaining popularity among artists and design students to become their go-to platform. Until today, design students have uploaded over 700 portfolios providing guidance to enrolling candidates. These portfolios are linked to over 500 art faculties of hundreds of universities.
Letting users create content without having to register (or going through any other annoying process) is becoming an important customer engagement strategy.
When you allow anonymous users to create content on your website, you want this content to go through a moderation process before it becomes publicly available. To implement this in Drupal, the anonymous user has to be given permission to create content and the content type needs to be unpublished by default.
This is a technical comparison of the older 2.x branch of the Simple XML sitemap module and an older development version of XML sitemap. XML sitemap has just had its first release and for more on the newer 3.x branch of Simple XML sitemap see this article.
The Simple XML Sitemap module was originally created by gbyte as a temporary replacement for the non-functioning Drupal 8 XML Sitemamp Module. After putting some more work into it however, we decided to keep using it in our D8 projects, as it is very lightweight, simple to use and most importandly, adheres to a newer XML sitemap standard.
