XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds 4.2.2

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There are no options to be set, the plugin having a minimal settings interface.

The feed becomes instantly available after activation on yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml (or yourblogurl.tld/index.php?feed=sitemap.xml if you do not use a fancy permalink structure) ready for indexing by search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com and others.

An entry Sitemap: http://yourblogurl.tld/sitemap.xml is added to the (by WordPress dynamically created) robots.txt on yourblogurl.tld/robots.txt to tell search engines where to find your XML Sitemap. If you do not use fancy URL's in WordPress, you will have to create your own robots.txt file. See FAQ's.

Installation:

Unpack and upload it to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.

Here are some key features of "XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds":

· The main advantage of this plugin over other XML Sitemap plugins is simplicity. No need to change file or folder permissions, move files or spend time on a difficult plugin options page. In fact, there are no options at all!
· Works out-of-the-box on shared codebase / multi-blog setups like WordPress MU, WP_OneInstall and others.
· Automatic post URL priority calculation based on post age and comment/trackback activity.

Requirements:

· WordPress 3.1 or higher

Limitations:

· The feed contains the front page and all posts and pages but excludes category, tag and other dynamic archive pages. This should not be a problem and by some it is even advised. There are SEO plugins around that even make these archive pages non-indexable by search engines.
· Except by resaving older posts from time to time, keeping the lastmod date fairly recent to ensure automatic high priority calculation for those urls, there is no way (yet) to manually set the priority of individual posts/pages in the sitemap. See the Faq's for more.
· The number of posts listed in the sitemap is limited to 1000. This should satisfy most blogs while limiting the sitemap size on bigger blogs by stripping of the oldest posts. Please let me know if you need more than your most recent 1000 posts listed in your sitemap.xml

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

· Fix for empty language tag for Google News tags in posts sitemap.

Via: XML Sitemap & Google News Feeds 4.2.2