Tag Archives: sitemaps

Where’s the xml sitemap?

Someone contacted me through the contact form to ask me where is the xml sitemap generated by the xml sitemap module for pligg .

If he would have read my first post about this module I think he would have eventually figured out where it is but since that first post was written a long time ago let me answer that question in this post.

I will do this in a post instead of answering privately because maybe there are others that might run into the same problem and I hate answering the same question over and over.

The module doesn't generate a sitemap but a sitemap index ( that's basically just a list of sitemaps in xml ) and unless you're using cache the module will generate it every time someone goes to the sitemap's URL.

If you're not using friendly urls for sitemaps then the url to the sitemap will be :
http://yourpliggsite.com/module.php?module=xml_sitemaps_show_sitemap
If you want to use friendly urls for the sitemap you will have to configure it as described here

Last time I checked ( when I first created the module ) ask.com could not be pinged unless your sitemap url looked like a static url or/and was ending in .xml and this is why I created the module with this choice in mind. If you don't care about pinging ask.com or if ask.com changed it's policy ( can anyone check this ? ) then you don't need friendly urls for sitemaps.

For the future I would appreciate if such questions would be asked in the comments instead of private contact. I prefer the comments for answering questions about my posts or the code in my posts because this way others can benefit from my answers or others can contribute.

The contact form would be for private matters like asking for consultancy , business proposals or others that don't fit into the comments.

Xml Sitemaps pligg module v0.8

It seems my last version of the Xml Sitemaps module for pligg didn't really fixed the date format problem with the generated sitemaps.

Back when this module was created google had less strict rules about the date format in the lastmod section. My module generated a date and time string with this format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS and it was ok but now it's only valid if it also contains the timezone offset in this format +/-HH:MM or if the string doesn't contain the time anymore.

So here is another update on this module that also contains the timezone offset so the sitemap is considered valid by google.

Download here

Google Sitemaps – Jerome’s Keywords Plugin

I wrote this little wordpress plugin to integrate Jerome's Keywords plugin with Google Sitemaps plugin so that the generated sitemap will also include tag pages. This plugin was inspired by a an addon that integrates Ultimate Tag Warrior with Google sitemaps.

You will need WordPress 2.0.x, Google sitemap 3.0beta and Jerome's keywords 1.9 for this plugin to work. It would be easy to make this work with Google sitemap 2.x so if you need it just let me know.I don't know how this would work on older versions of Jerome's Keywords cause I haven't tried that.

Download: Google Sitemaps - Jerome’s Keywords Plugin