Arne Brachhold

Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress 2.6

Filed under: Sitemaps — arne on July 4, 2005

I’m glad to announce a new version of the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress. This version fixes various issues and introduces some new features:

  • Custom location of the sitemap file:
    Now you can specify a custom location for your sitemap file and place it in your root directory for example. This will allow you to add other URLs which are not in or beneath the Blog directory and didn’t get recognized by Google so far.
  • Filter-Hook for other plugins:
    This plugin has an own WordPress filter, which can be used by other plugins to add their generated pages to the sitemap. Check the source code comments for more details.
  • Fixed error with other extensions:
    The script should now also work with extensions like wp-mail. If there is a reason the plugin might not work due to not included files, it disables itself.
  • Fixed bug with missing trailing slash:
    The Home URL has now always a trailing slash at the end.

German, Spanish, Traditional Chinese and Japanese language files are already updated, Italian will follow soon. Thanks to the authors for the fast support!

Update:
Stefano sent me the new Italian language files! Thanks!

Update 2:
june6 sent me Chinese (Simplified) language files! Thanks for your work :)
Download the full package with language files to get it.

Update 3:
Wow, I recieved another Simplified Chinese language file by Liang Jin later this day. Have a look at it at kingler.net.

More Information and Download

6 Comment(s)

Comment by Sven

Posted on July 17, 2005

Thank you for this great tool.
HINT for Google:
As they say themself in the instructions for the sitemap.xml
-> First you have to update manually in your Google Sitemap Acount !!!
Once they finish indexing every site of your web you can activate the
AUTOMATIC PING OPTION
-> If you do this before, there will be a problem that other users of EP 1.5 were reporting.
Example: if you have already a 100 sites it will need time to generate and send the xml-file…
So it is better to de-select the auto ping to google, first.
Later if you see that google indexed your site…
give it a try…
Once again thank you.
Sven

Comment by Richard Silverstein

Posted on July 21, 2005

Arne: I may’ve located a bug in sitemap.php. At least I know it’s causing a server error msg. every time I try to publish a post to WP from my blog publishing software, ecto.

Could you take a look at this thread & see if there’s anything you think in line 355 of sitemap.php which may be causing the conflict. I downloaded the plugin about 3 wks. ago. I notice you’ve upgraded a few times since then. If I upgrade might this make a difference? If so, is the download link above for the latest version?

Comment by arne

Posted on July 21, 2005

Hi Richard,

this Problem has been fixed in v2.6. Just download the current version to get it work.

arne

Comment by Erich Bihlman

Posted on August 1, 2005

I just downloaded this plugin, set it up, made a post, then checked the xml file with FeedValidator.org and it said it was invalid!

Is this the case?

Below you will find the corresponding results…

Sorry, This feed does not validate.

line 5, column 0: Undefined root element: urlset [help]
Source: http://www.bihlman.com/blog/wordpress/sitemap.xml

Comment by arne

Posted on August 2, 2005

Hi Erich,

the generated file is a sitemap file in the Google Sitemap Format. FeedValidator checks for feeds such as rss 2 or atom so it can’t validate the sitemap file.

Comment by Erich Bihlman

Posted on August 2, 2005

Great arne, thanks, I thought it was something like that. Great plugin!

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