The field “Original Source” stopped saving after last update to 1.1.1.

We are using WordPress SEO Plugin for our sitemaps (https://styleblueprint.com/sitemap_index.xml) and also the News plugin, but that particular sitemap is always blank: https://styleblueprint.com/news-sitemap.xml

We use a CPT for all of our content, but have configured the plugin appropriately.

All thoughts appreciated.

Thanks in advance, Jay

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From within the plugins tab, I click “settings” and I get an error page. Hosted at WPEngine.

Can anyone help out with this?

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can this be integrated?

news_keywords metatag (https://support.google.com/news/publisher/answer/68297)

including

wp_get_post_tags or similar function

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I am running a WPML multilingual site using Yoast’s SEO plugin (which suggests adding News SEO too).

Is News SEO compatible with WPML installations? Any suggestion for setting it up with a multilingual site?

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Hi Joost

We’ve used the News module/plugin since it launched (currently using 1.1.1) and it’s worked very well for us.

We recently decided to allow carefully selected sponsored articles on site and have done all the usual nofollow/disclaimer stuff to keep everyone happy, and we did – just to be safe – uncheck the pre-checked box to include in the News sitemap.

However, we discovered the story in G News and realise that unchecking the box doesn’t work as on save it changes to checked.

So we decided to add a category for Sponsored articles and submit the story under that setting and only include the article in the excluded category until it fell out of G News. But that doesn’t work either.

It seems it’s impossible to exclude by category or, which would be preferable, by individual post.

We’ve done the usual plugins on/off and the News module on/off and resave settings, but it still obstinately refuses to allow exclusions.

Are you aware of this?

John

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The wpseo_sitemap_urlimages filter that is available for other sitemaps created by the WordPress SEO is not applied on the google news sitemap

I added the following line

$images = apply_filters( 'wpseo_sitemap_urlimages', $images, $item->ID );

before line 169 in xml-news-sitemap-class.php and now it works fine.

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Hi,

After recently updating WordPress SEO and the accompanying News SEO and paying for Video SEO, I’ve noticed a specific issue that seems to have developed.

Some of our posts in Google News have the wrong title. This is a different issue that Google picking a title that is better than your own. This is Google News showing Post TItle A, but its linking to Post TItle C’s URL. Looking at the News Sitemap, the only thing that I can spot initially is that these 2 posts appear directly after each other in the site map. I havent been able to identify any other similarities.

I dont believe this problem existed before the 3 plugin updates that we did.

Anyone experience something similar?

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I get this error when i activate the XML XML News sitemaps functionality:

Fatal error: Call to a member function register_sitemap() on a non-object in /home/interact/public_html/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo-news/xml-news-sitemap-class.php on line 28

I USE W3TC with CDN over ftp.

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Hi!

I associated a Google Stock symbol into the Google News tab of a post and it isn’t showing up as a column like Genre(s) or #Images in my sitemap.

What can I do to get this to show up?

Cheers,

Lindsay

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Thanks Yoast – News Sitemaps are back up and running with 1.1.1!

However, some bugs as enumerated below. This is using current versions at time of writing (WordPress SEO 1.4.5, WordPress SEO News 1.1.1).

1. stock_tickers only appears under certain circumstances
   If you fill in a value for “Stock Tickers” in the appropriate field in the WordPress SEO “Google News” tab, the value appears as anticipated in the <stock_tickers> field in the news sitemap entry for that URL – if and only if there’s a “Stock Tickers” value for all items that appear in the sitemap. If any one article does not have an entry for the “Stock Tickers” box, then <stock_tickers> will not appear for any article in the news sitemap. A bizarre bug indeed!
2. “Default Keywords” not functioning
   If you fill in a value for “Stock Tickers” in the appropriate field in the WordPress SEO “Google News” tab, it has no impact. The default keyword appears neither in the <news:keywords> field of the sitemap, nor in the content attribute of the <meta name=”news_keywords”> tag in the article itself.
3. Tags appear in sitemap but not in news_keywords meta tag
   In an undocumented feature, it appears as though tags for an article are automatically added to the <news:keywords> field of the news sitemap. However, while manually entered keywords (values for “Meta News Keywords” in the appropriate field in the WordPress SEO “Google News” tab) are added to the <meta name=”news_keywords”> tag for the article, tags are not. So one is left with the choice of having tags omitted from the <meta name=”news_keywords”> (if values are not filled in for “Meta News Keywords”) or duplicating values that appear in the <news:keywords> field of the news sitemap (if tag names are filled in for “Meta News Keywords”). Obviously this would be better if tags either populated both <meta name=”news_keywords”> and <news:keywords> or neither – right now there’s no workaround.

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Hi there,

I installed the Plugin. Checked the box and deselected all the stuff that the plugin does not have to post. Left just one feed, my news feed.

I can see my posts at the XML News Sitemap but i can’t find my news in Google News.

Can somebody maybe tell me what i possibly are doing wrong? Link to my site: https://goo.gl/wgTX5

Kind regards.

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This plugin (WordPress SEO News from Yoast) doesn’t seem to recognize custom post types, unless I’m doing something improperly.

It’s weird because on the Google News Sitemaps settings page, it lists all of our custom post types with tickboxes under the heading “Post Types to include in News Sitemap”, which would seem to indicate that it’s aware of custom post types and is set up to include them.

But only “posts” are included in the xml news sitemap, and on individual post pages, in the “WordPress SEO by Yoast” box, the “Google News” tab does not show up if it’s a custom post type.

I hope that makes sense, and thanks in advance for any responses.

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Hi,

For some reason, the category exclude option for news sitemap doesn’t work. Articles under excluded categories manage to sneak into the sitemap. Any idea what’s happening?

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Hello,
I show images in my posts not including them inside it, but in a separated <div>, at the top of the post, which include the “featured image” on a fixed size. So, outside of the_content().

This means, according your standards, that the image is not in the sitemap, under the <image:image><image:loc> tags, because the plugin set it if the image(s) are inside the posts content.

Please, guys, fix it, and include in the <image:loc> tag also the “featured image” of the post, because my template isn’t the only one which show featured images in that way.

Thank you,

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Whenever a page/post doesn’t have an original source listed, the plugin adds this to the page:

<link rel=”original-source” href=” ” />

This creates an invalid href attribute in HTML5 and shouldn’t be included on a post/page without a source listed. Unless there’s another reason for this that I’m not aware of, I’d love to see this fixed. Thanks!

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I was so glad to find a new Google News Sitemap plugin! It’s been a nightmare finding one that works.
But when I install and activate, and then go to Settings, I get this error:
Fatal error: Class ‘WPSEO_Admin_Pages’ not found in /home/XXX/public_html/XXX.com/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-seo-news/xml-news-admin.php on line 6

Pleeeeeease help so I can finally get my news site indexed by the Mighty Google!

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Hello all,

For some reason our featured images aren’t being included in the sitemap produced by News SEO. You can see the sitemap here: https://www.themag.co.uk/sitemap-news.xml

Is there anything special we have to do to enable this feature? I’m including posts and media post types in the sitemap.

Thanks.

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If there aren’t any posts flagged for the news sitemap when Google scans it then it returns this error for the sitemap_index.xml:

Missing XML tag. This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.

Which is annoying, but not breaking anything. To work around this I added this code to the constructor in xml-news-sitemap-class.xml to skip including the news-sitemap.xml in the sitemap_index.xml when there’s no content in it.

/**
  * Class constructor
  */
public function __construct() {
  global $wpdb;

  // Always create the sitemap (even when empty) so we don't have 404 messages for it...
  add_action( 'init', array( $this, 'init' ), 10 );
  add_action( 'wpseo_head', array( $this, 'head' ) );

  // ...but only add the news sitemap to the index when we have available items for it
  $items = $wpdb->get_results( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts JOIN $wpdb->postmeta ON ID = post_id
        WHERE post_status='publish'
          AND (DATEDIFF(CURDATE(), post_date_gmt)<=2)
          AND meta_key = '_yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-include'
          AND meta_value = 'on'
          LIMIT 0, 10" );

  if ( !empty( $items ) ) {
     add_filter( 'wpseo_sitemap_index', array( $this, 'add_to_index' ) );
  }
}

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Dear Yoast,
I’ve got a question about the titles. If I change the post-title from headline to SEO-Title with your Plugin, there is no change in the News Sitemap. But Google whant to get the Post-Title in News-Sitemap, not the Headline.
Any ideas?
Best regards
Job

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value does save correctly on XML Sitemap settings screen, but in the tab on the add post screen it always defaults to “blog”.

briefly checked out the code and looks like it’s because if “newssitemap_default_genre” is not set, it defaults to blog. (and since it always defaults to blog probably there’s a wrong variable name somewhere or the data isn’t getting pulled correctly when the tab renders).

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Webmaster tools reports there is a missing tag error:

This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
Missing XML tag
Parent tag: urlset
Tag: url
Line: 5

When I look at the XML source, the urlset tag looks closed properly to me. Could this be caused when there are no URL links in the set?

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Couldn’t select it but I’m using WordPress v. 3.4.1.

Anyway, updated the original WordPress SEO plug-in to latest version, installed new- News plug-in. At first all sitemaps were blank, then after re-saving my settings it generated the regular site maps

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However my news-sitemap is blank, webmaster tools says it is a “General HTTP error: 404 not found” error if that helps. Any help would very much appreciated ??

– Sarah

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I’ve installed this new version of the News sitemap extension which seems to work – but only if our authors or editors remember to tick ‘Include in News Sitemap’ in the SEO options panel on the article edit page.

Is this just me or it is a problem with the plugin?

Thanks

Caspar

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