Lee Willis

Thanks!

Hi – I’ve taken a first stab at this – but I’ve only got access to a really simple (1 category, 1 product) shop to test it on.

Download this file:

https://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/wp-ecommerce/wp-e-commerce-xml-sitemap.php

and save it in wp-content/plugins/

Then activate the plugin (It will show up as “WP Shopping Cart XML Sitemap”), then rebuild your sitemap (Settings->XML Sitemap->Rebuild Sitemap) and you should get entries added for your categories and products.

Let me know if you have any problems, or if it works for you – you can contact me through my blog at https://www.leewillis.co.uk

If you do have problems then just disable the plugin, and rebuild your sitemap.

I’m looking at this, and while it *should* be simple – I can’t get it to generate proper permalinks for the products / categories. I’ll let you know if I get any further.

Can this be moved into the advanced forum – seems it might be better placed there?

I’m guessing that there are only 16 wordpress posts / pages, and the rest of the pages you’re referring to are from your ecommerce plugin?

If so, then the problem will be that this plugin has no way to identify these “pages”. The good news is that the plugin offers a filter that your ecommerce plugin can use to add its pages into the sitemap – I suggest you contact whoever develops your ecommerce plugin and ask them to consider adding the functionality.

Hi Luciano,

There’s a patch to implement this here:

https://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/canonical-urls-taxonomy-support/patch.txt

Hope that helps.

I’ve updated the patch against 3.1.6, and also made it generate a modification time based on the the last update time of an article tagged with that taxonomy term.

The revised patch is here:

https://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/include_taxonomies_v3.1.6.txt

I’ve updated the patch to match the new version 3.1.5.

It’s in the comments at https://www.leewillis.co.uk/custom-taxonomies-wordpress-plugins/

Hi, I just realized my static pages are ignored by the plugin, is it normal?

Have you got “Include static pages” selected in the plugin options?

Because my blog has many static pages so if the sitemap doesn’t include them, then Google won’t index them and the sitemap is no use at all…

Google will still index your pages as long as they are linked somewhere on your site. Just because they don’t appear in your XML sitemap doesn’t mean they’re invisible.

I’ve emailed the author to try and get it included upstream – fingers crossed!

In 3.2.1 – thanks!

Try replacing the body of the ga_get_domain function with this one:

$hostPattern = "/^(http:\/\/)?([^\/]+)/i";
                        $domainPatternUS = "/[^\.\/]+\.[^\.\/]+$/";
                        $domainPatternUK = "/[^\.\/]+\.[^\.\/]+\.[^\.\/]+$/";

                        preg_match($hostPattern, $uri, $matches);
                        $host = $matches[2];
                        if (preg_match("/.*\..*\..*\..*$/",$host)) {
                                preg_match($domainPatternUK, $host, $matches);
                        } else {
                                preg_match($domainPatternUS, $host, $matches);
                        }

                        return array("domain"=>$matches[0],"host"=>$host);

Glad it works for you!

If you have a UNIX box, then use the -p1 argument with patch, e.g.

$ cd wp-content/plugins/
$ patch -p1 < path.to.my.patch.file

Should do it. Failing that, just grab the following two files, and put them into wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

https://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-core.php
https://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap-ui.php

As I mentioned previously though – this has only been tested on my site, and while it seems to work – I can’t guarantee it will work on yours – so please take a backup of sitemap-core.php and sitemap-ui.php before you start!

Let me know how you get on

If you like it – vote for it here:

https://xmlsitemap.uservoice.com/pages/651-general/suggestions/274884-support-wordpress-taxonomies