[Plugin: WordPress SEO by Yoast] Need to change Sitemap XML frequency

I need answer to the same thing where you ever able to figure it our?

Open /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-sitemaps.php

search for “weekly”
replace with “daily”

it’s in there a couple of times, for page/post/category/tag.

Unfortunately you can’t specify this for a single page/post entry.
The setting is for all pages or posts.

You can differentiate beteween a page / post / category.
Example:

You could change weekly do daily for a page but not for a category.

Would be a very nice feature to add to the SEO plugin.

NOTE: updating the plugin might change these values back to their default ‘weekly’ setting.

That is one of the main reasons why I don’t use the sitemap from Yoast

i have the same problem..

any updates on this by Yoast ?

Thanks Arnoud, for identifying the location of the XML-generation file. I had hunted around for a plain XML file; it was not there, so clearly it was being generated by code.

But this is a really annoying failure by YOAST. Surely the choice of daily or weekly sitemap updates ought to be a user setting … not something that Yoast chooses on our behalf!

We were making massive changes to our site or an hourly basis for the first few weeks – hundreds of hours of work – but found that Google was simply not indexing the changes for an unacceptably long time (i.e. around a week). At the end, the reason was obvious: this ridiculous decision by Yoast to fix the sitemap change frequency to weekly.

We have implemented the changes as suggested by Arnound, but personally I would prefer to manage my own XML file. Does anyone how to do that correctly, without causing interference or conflicts with the Yoast file? E.g.

* Do we just add our own sitemap.xml at the root level?
* Should we delete the Yoast PHP file that generates the sitemap ( /wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo/inc/class-sitemaps.php) or can we leave it there?

In the meanwhile, Yoast, please fix this!

I am stuck with YOAST plugin, I am using Yoast on my one of my site but I hate this feature because I can’t change the indexing Frequency. Luckily I am using All-in-SEO on other sites so not a hassle when it comes to changing the Priority and Indexing options.