Request a Jetpack Sitemaps rebuild is a WordPress ability from Jetpack — usable via Easy MCP AI, which connects Claude, ChatGPT, and any AI assistant to your site.
Install Free Plugin →Request a Jetpack Sitemaps rebuild
WriteTrigger a full regeneration of Jetpack's XML sitemap.
Requires the Jetpack plugin on WordPress 6.9+. Abilities are registered by several bundled Jetpack packages (automattic/jetpack-backup, jetpack-connection, jetpack-forms, jetpack-stats) plus the main plugin's own registrars for Related Posts, Shortlinks, Sitemaps, Newsletter/Subscriptions, and Monitor. Permission requirements vary by ability — most gate on 'manage_options', 'jetpack_admin_page', or 'view_stats', while Forms abilities use 'edit_pages'. Backup abilities only register when a Backup product/plan is active; Sitemaps, Monitor, and Newsletter abilities only register when their respective module is turned on.
What it does
This ability dispatches a full sitemap regeneration by scheduling Jetpack's existing sitemap cron event. It reports whether the request was newly dispatched, the current build status (queued, running, or already_running), and the next scheduled cron tick as an ISO 8601 timestamp, or null if nothing is scheduled. It is idempotent — calling it while a build is already queued or in flight returns dispatched=false without stacking duplicate cron events, since rebuild scheduling writes to cron and transient state and can run for minutes on large sites.
See it in action
You ask your AI assistant
"Rebuild my Jetpack sitemap now."
Returns
An object with dispatched (boolean), status ("queued", "running", or "already_running"), and next_scheduled_at (an ISO 8601 UTC timestamp string, or null).
Permission
The current user must have the 'manage_options' capability.
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