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Author: RavanH

Easy FancyBox has a new owner!

RavanH 23 November 202323 November 2023

Easy FancyBox for WordPress and Easy FancyBox Pro have been acquired by Reactr LLC. The developer behind Reactr LLC, Erick Danzer, has been playing an active role in the WordPress community for almost 15 years….

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News

xmlsf_news_excluded

RavanH 21 April 202321 April 2023

Filters the response when checking the post for exclusion flags in Google News sitemap context. Passes the post exclusion flag and $post_id; must return true or false. Used in xml-sitemap-feed/views/feed-sitemap-news.php Parameters (2) Return The filter should…

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Filter Hooks

xmlsf_news_keywords

RavanH 7 April 20239 October 2025

Filters the news keywords array in Google News Advanced. Passes the keywords array and $post_id; must return an array. Used in xml-sitemap-feed-advanced-news/inc/class-main.php Parameters (2) Return The filter should return an array with keywords for the current…

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Filter Hooks

xmlsf_excluded

RavanH 22 February 202317 September 2023

Filters the response when checking the post for exclusion flags in XML Sitemap context. Passes the post exclusion flag and $post_id; must return true or false. Used in xml-sitemap-feed/views/feed-sitemap-posttype.php Parameters (2) Return The filter should return…

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Filter Hooks

Cloudflare and XML Sitemap & Google News

RavanH 17 January 202321 November 2025

Cloudflare may cause the XML Sitemap or Google News sitemap to be cached for a certain time, presenting stale sitemaps to both visitors and search engines crawlers. This can cause unexpected delays in indexing or…

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XML Sitemap & Google News
Troubleshooting

Search Console says: “The sitemap can be read, but it has errors”

RavanH 17 January 202321 November 2025

First, check your news sitemap in an online XML validator like https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/validate-xml-sitemap.html It may already provide you with some clues about what could be going wrong. If there are errors reported that you do not…

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XML Sitemap & Google News
Troubleshooting

Changing the XML sitemap appearance

RavanH 17 January 202321 November 2025

If you wish to change the look of your XML Sitemaps, you have several options: Let’s look closer at each of these options so you can decide which approach is best for you. XML Sitemaps…

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XML Sitemap & Google News
Developers

xmlsf_news_language

RavanH 2 June 20222 June 2022

Filters the post language code used in the news sitemap. Passes additional variables $post_id and $post_type; Used in xml-sitemap-feed/views/feed-sitemap-news.php Parameters (3) $locale(string) Site language taken from get_bloginfo(‘language’) or from Polylang or WPML post data. Usually…

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Filter Hooks

Action and Filter hooks

RavanH 30 May 202221 November 2025

A quick overview of all available action and filter hooks in XML Sitemap & Google News. Action hooks Hook name Context Description xmlsf_generator XML Sitemap, Google News Fired before each sitemap’s <urlset> tag. xmlsf_ping Removed…

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XML Sitemap & Google News
Developers

Search Console says: “Publication name does not match…”

RavanH 1 July 202121 November 2025

After adding your Google News Sitemap to your the list of sitemaps in your Search Console account, you may encounter this error message: The publication name specified in your Sitemap does not match the publication…

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XML Sitemap & Google News
Troubleshooting

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