Comments on: XML & Google News Sitemap Feeds

By: RavanH

RavanH — Wed, 09 May 2012 13:59:53 +0000

Hi Ben, you’ll need to download the latest development version from http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed.zip (unzip and upload via FTP). Then open your wp-config.php and add a new line to define all post types you want represented in the news sitemap:

define('XMLSF_NEWS_POST_TYPE', 'post,my-custom-type-name');

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 09 May 2012 02:01:35 +0000

How do I include custom post types into the Google News Sitemap?

I’ve read people managing to do it but can’t find a piece of code anywhere!

Thanks

By: Lenin

Lenin — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:07:04 +0000

I checked the files in my server and did not find an error log file. I kept the plugin deactivated. I received an email with a solution I have not tried yet. They told me to install this plugin instead (XML & Google News Sitemap Feeds). I will keep you guys posted if this works. Also, to answer your question, yes, I do have multiple plugins installed in my site. About 10 of them. Thanks for helping me with this.

By: RavanH

RavanH — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:22:35 +0000

Although I would not recommend reactivating the plugin on a live site, it would really be helpful if you could find a related PHP error in the server (or hosting) error log. Without some hints from there, I have no clue what could be going on at this point because I cannot reproduce the issue. Are you running a lot of other plugins on the same site?

By: Lenin

Lenin — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:59:50 +0000

The error made all my item pages display this message below:

Error 404 – Page not found!

You are here: Home → 404 Not Found
The page you trying to reach does not exist, or has been moved. Please use the menus or the search box to find what you are looking for.

The error only occurred after updating your plugin to the latest version. It is disabled right now and all my pages are working fine again. Is there something I can do to make it work properly again?

By: RavanH

RavanH — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:37:39 +0000

Hi Lenin,

Can you tell me more on what the error was en when it occurred exactly?

By: Lenin

Lenin — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:57:22 +0000

Hi, I woke up today being advised about some pages in my website that had an error problem. After testing all the plugins within my site I noticed that the plugin that caused my pages to create this error was the the XML SiteMap Feed plugin. After deactivating it, all my pages came back to normal. Everything was good yesterday, but I guess once I updated to the latest version, that’s when the errors occurred. Any thoughts on this, or a way to fix it? Thanks in advance!

By: RavanH

RavanH — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 10:02:05 +0000

No, you cannot. But do not worry about those rates too much. Google and others might take them as an indication but usually draw their own conclusion on other info like incoming links, traffic, search terms and other mysterious factors

By: Christophe

Christophe — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 08:31:32 +0000

we can drop the column of rates in the creation of the sitemap ?

By: RavanH

RavanH — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 02:00:58 +0000

Hi Kern,

It is currently not possible. The reasoning is (was) simplicity. But I realise as popularity increases, the need for at least some flexibility increases too. Some kind of control, allowing exclusion of certain posts of categories plus differentiating in Genre tag value is on the roadmap for the next release… But as said to Christophe just moments ago, I cannot give an estimate on when it will be ready.

In the mean time, you could simply edit the file feed-sitemap-news.php… Find on line 26 the start of query_posts(... and add a new line below it that says:
'category_name' => 'wire',