Advanced Google News Sitemap options for XML Sitemap & Google News.
Standard syndication feeds often miss the rapid Google News indexing window. Google News Advanced hooks directly into the official Search Console API to notify Google immediately upon post publication or major updates.
Stock Tickers Support
Injects compliant financial ticker syntax (e.g., NASDAQ:AAPL) directly into the news feed schema for business reporting.
Custom Post Types
Include standard posts, custom editorial formats, and hierarchical pages in a single Google News sitemap.
Keywords Fallback
Automatically sources targeted news keywords from tags, categories, or a dedicated news keyword taxonomy.
48-Hour Auto Pruning
Strictly serves only content published within the last 48 hours to adhere to Google News ingest requirements.
Google News Advanced extends XML Sitemap & Google News for WordPress with advanced options and automated Google News Sitemap pings and a Ping log to keep an eye on how often Google is notified.
Features comparison
| Feature | Core plugin | Google News Adv. |
|---|---|---|
| Required tags: Publication, title, language & date | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multilingual (Polylang & WPML compatible) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Select Post or Custom Post Type | ✓ | ✓ |
| Limit to selected categorie(s) | ✓ | ✓ |
| Google Search Console Report: See the status of your Google News sitemap in the WordPress admin. Last submitted and last crawled dates, URLs, errors… * | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ping Google manually* | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ping Google automatically* | — | ✓ |
| Ping log: Keep a log of the latest pings to Google with exact date, time, URL and response status. | — | ✓ |
| Keywords: Add keywords to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy. | — | ✓ |
| Stock tickers: Add stock tickers to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them. | — | ✓ |
| Multiple Post Types: include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap. | — | ✓ |
| Include Pages: allow inclusion of hierarchical post types like Pages. | — | ✓ |
| WP.org community support | ✓ | — |
| Priority support | — | ✓ |
*) Pings and Reports need a Google Cloud Platform project with Google Search Console API enabled. Instructions are provided in the plugin admin.
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- WordPress 4.4 or higher,
- PHP 5.6 or higher (8+ recommended),
- XML Sitemap & Google News 5.6 or later installed with the Google News Sitemap option enabled.
