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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
There are no special rules needed for XML Sitemap & Google News sitemaps. The basic Nginx rules as discussed on https://wordpress.org/support/article/nginx/ “just work”. When there are no other rules that target the sitemap request, they…
The XML Sitemap & Google News plugin can add both sitemaps to robots.txt automatically but only if you let WordPress itself handle robots.txt requests. This means that (1) there must be no static robots.txt file…