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XML News Sitemap

Description

This plugin provides a Google News XML Sitemap for WordPress that lists the most recent 1000 articles published in the past two days that are marked to be included in an auto-generated Google Sitemap News XML file in accordance with the standards detailed on the Creating a Google News sitemap page here: https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/74288?hl=en-GB

Created by Web Developer: Justin Norton — https://www.jnorton.co.uk

Sites using this plugin:
http://startups.co.uk/sitemap-news.xml
http://is4profit.com/sitemap-news.xml

Installation

  1. Unzip the xml-news-sitemap.zip file.
  2. Upload the xml-news-sitemap folder (not just the files in it!) to your wp-content/plugins folder. If you’re using FTP, use ‘binary’ mode.

FAQ

Installation Instructions
  1. Unzip the xml-news-sitemap.zip file.
  2. Upload the xml-news-sitemap folder (not just the files in it!) to your wp-content/plugins folder. If you’re using FTP, use ‘binary’ mode.

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Contributors & Developers

“XML News Sitemap” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.2.5

  • Changing priority of sitemap render function add_filter(‘template_redirect’, array(&$this, ‘renderXML’),0,0);

1.2.4

  • Tested against WP 4.9.x

1.2.3

  • Bug fix for add_filter(‘plugin_action_links_’.plugin_basename( FILE ), array(&$this, ‘add_action_links’)); in gns_xml.php — line 49.

1.2.2

  • Bug fix for missing unserialize for $settings[‘gns_xml_genres’] in /lib/template/gns_xml_output.php — line 90.

1.2.1

  • Bug fixing last commit.
  • Providing better defaults for genres.

1.2.0

  • Changed input type for Genre to textfield due to Google changing guidance on Genre labels. Use a comma separated list of Genre values for this field — thanks to @w-sky for highlighting this issue.
  • Tested against WP 4.8.2

1.1.6

  • Fixed non-english character entities in post titles.
  • Fixed saving configuration options arrays.

1.1.5

  • Fixed PHP warning on Add Post screen.

1.1.4

  • Tweaking default settings.

1.1.3

  • Bug fixing beta tests.

1.1.2

  • First public release!