Excluding article-Categories for G.News sitemap

Yes, it is (still) in the development version which you can get from https://www.ads-software.com/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/developers/ under Other Versions.

hi RavanH,

Thanks a lot ..ok..

I assume that the sitemap is always updated ? I mean sometimes for live G News (sports events for instance) you need to ping every 15 or 30 minutes the article. Does your plugin enable that ?

Otherwise, for advice, how it works for updating a sitemap (roughtfully) ? Do you need to develop a script to refresh the xml file elsewhere in the core script of wp ? Tks for your help again..

The sitemaps are always up to date. Unless you are using a caching plugin maybe.

In that case you’ll have to configure sitemap.*\.xml in the exception list, to NOT be cached.

Hi RavanH,

Tks a lot !.

You say : “The sitemaps are always up to date”, ok sure, but how ?
I mean , as newbee, when i create an html page, if i don’t manually insert new sentences , it ‘ll not be updated.
So i wonder how (a line of code somewhere ? ) a sitemap.xml goes and fetch the new articles updated in the database to be updated..

That’s because the sitemap is not a file like an ordinary html page. It is a dynamic feed, created on each request just like your WordPress RSS feed is. Your normal RSS feed can be accessed via yoursi.te/?feed=rss or yoursi.te/feed/ (if you’re using a fancy permalink sturcture) and the sitemap can be found on yoursi.te/?feed=sitemap and yoursi.te/sitemap.xml (if you’re using a fancy permalink sturcture)…

The same goes for your WordPress front page or blog page or even an archive page like yoursi.te/2015/. They are dynamically created upon each request and will include all the latest additions and changes.

Unless (again) you are using a caching plugin. These type of plugins will create either a static html copy of such pages or they create a in-memory copy of database queries to speed things up. Advantage is a huge increase in site speed. Downside may be that for a while (until the cache is considered ‘stale’ and automatically updated) a cached copy is served that does not include all the latest changes.

So i wonder how (a line of code somewhere ? ) a sitemap.xml goes and fetch the new articles updated in the database to be updated..

There is indeed a line (or more) of code somewhere. Not inside a file called sitemap.xml (which does/should not exist) but deep inside the plugin. If you look in the template file /xml-sitemap-feed/includes/feed-sitemap-post_type.php where you’ll find have_posts() which is a common WordPress function that starts The Loop that fetches posts based on a visitors request.

Hope that clears things up a bit about the ‘innards’ of WordPress and how my plugin fits in there ??

Cheers,
Rolf

Hello Rolf !

Many thanks again for this explanatioon, it clears things up a lot..

Now i’am gonna test the beta version for sorting some files out the sitemap..

Cheers