Update `redirect_canonical()` to account for custom pagination and URL format used by sitemaps in order to follow standard practices.
Introduce the function `get_sitemap_url()` to simplify getting the index and provider URLs as needed.
Props jonathanstegall, pbiron, GamerZ, salvoaranzulla, peterwilsoncc.
Fixes#50910.
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Following [48536], rename the function to match the rest of the sitemaps logic.
Also eliminates some dead code after [48523].
Props pbiron.
See #50724. See #50643.
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If sitemaps are disabled, previously there would be a rewrite rule for the sitemap endpoint. This endpoint would display the homepage since there was a rewrite rule. Now, Sitemaps are loaded, and the proper HTTP headers are returned.
Fixes#50643.
Props swissspidy, kraftbj, donmhico.
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While web crawlers are able to discover pages from links within the site and from other sites, XML sitemaps supplement this approach by allowing crawlers to quickly and comprehensively identify all URLs included in the sitemap and learn other signals about those URLs using the associated metadata.
See https://make.wordpress.org/core/2020/06/10/merge-announcement-extensible-core-sitemaps/ for more details.
This feature exposes the sitemap index via `/wp-sitemap.xml` and exposes a variety of new filters and hooks for developers to modify the behavior. Users can disable sitemaps completely by turning off search engine visibility in WordPress admin.
This change also introduces a new `esc_xml()` function to escape strings for output in XML, as well as XML support to `wp_kses_normalize_entities()`.
Props Adrian McShane, afragen, adamsilverstein, casiepa, flixos90, garrett-eclipse, joemcgill, kburgoine, kraftbj, milana_cap, pacifika, pbiron, pfefferle, Ruxandra Gradina, swissspidy, szepeviktor, tangrufus, tweetythierry.
Fixes#50117.
See #3670. See #19998.
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