{"id":32696,"date":"2014-11-05T20:33:50","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T20:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins-wp\/working-news-sitemap-generator-for-google-news-2014\/"},"modified":"2015-01-30T08:52:59","modified_gmt":"2015-01-30T08:52:59","slug":"working-news-sitemap-generator-for-google-news-2014","status":"publish","type":"plugin","link":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/working-news-sitemap-generator-for-google-news-2014\/","author":407875,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","version":"v1.03","stable_tag":"trunk","tested":"4.1.42","requires":"3.0.1","requires_php":"","requires_plugins":"","header_name":"Working News Sitemap Generator For Google News (2014)","header_author":"webmaster-net, soliver, Chris Jinks","header_description":"","assets_banners_color":"","last_updated":"2015-01-30 08:52:59","external_support_url":"","external_repository_url":"","donate_link":"http:\/\/webmaster.net\/plugins\/","header_plugin_uri":"https:\/\/www.webmaster.net\/plugins\/","header_author_uri":"","rating":5,"author_block_rating":0,"active_installs":20,"downloads":3750,"num_ratings":1,"support_threads":0,"support_threads_resolved":0,"author_block_count":0,"sections":["description","installation","faq","changelog"],"tags":[],"upgrade_notice":[],"ratings":{"1":0,"2":0,"3":0,"4":0,"5":"1"},"assets_icons":[],"assets_banners":[],"assets_blueprints":{},"all_blocks":[],"tagged_versions":[],"block_files":[],"assets_screenshots":{"screenshot-1.png":{"filename":"screenshot-1.png","revision":"1573816","resolution":"1","location":"plugin"}},"screenshots":{"1":"Add Publication Name and Language Manually"},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"plugin_section":[],"plugin_tags":[15242,15243,67188,67187,6358],"plugin_category":[],"plugin_contributors":[83458,83460],"plugin_business_model":[],"class_list":["post-32696","plugin","type-plugin","status-publish","hentry","plugin_tags-google-news","plugin_tags-news-sitemap","plugin_tags-oped","plugin_tags-opinion-piece","plugin_tags-xml-sitemap","plugin_contributors-soliver","plugin_contributors-webmaster-net","plugin_committers-soliver"],"banners":[],"icons":{"svg":false,"icon":"https:\/\/s.w.org\/plugins\/geopattern-icon\/working-news-sitemap-generator-for-google-news-2014.svg","icon_2x":false,"generated":true},"screenshots":[{"src":"https:\/\/ps.w.org\/working-news-sitemap-generator-for-google-news-2014\/trunk\/screenshot-1.png?rev=1573816","caption":"Add Publication Name and Language Manually"}],"raw_content":"<!--section=description-->\n<p>I looked for a plugin the other day to generate a proper Google News sitemap. Unfortunately, most of them were either not working, premium plugins or too bloated. \nAfter looking for a good while and testing a handful of plugins, I set out to make a plugin that is compatible with recent Google News additions, including the possibility to specify many parameters manually.<\/p>\n\n<p>I hope to maintain this plugin throughout 2014 and 2015 and add a few more features. If there are any bugs please report them so they can be fixed with the next release.<\/p>\n\n<h4>Some of the new features<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Provide publication name manually - if you don't want it to be your Homepage name<\/li>\n<li>Provide site language using Google's language codes<\/li>\n<li>Provide related stock tickers manually<\/li>\n<li>Rather than excluding categories, this plugin allows you to include categories only<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>Why You Should Include Only A Few Categories<\/h4>\n\n<p>Google is very picky about what sites they include. If you create a sitemap that is fetching content from your entire site, you won't get accepted.<\/p>\n\n<p>It is a far better idea to create a \"News\" and \"Opinion Piece\" category<\/p>\n\n<h4>What features will you add in the next version<\/h4>\n\n<p>Next on the list are additional genres: Opinion Piece, Op\/Ed and other genres accepted by Google.<\/p>\n\n<h4>How do I avoid my blog from dropping out of Google News<\/h4>\n\n<p>For more info, check out the following article:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>[Avoiding Google News Pitfalls] (https:\/\/www.webmaster.net\/one-surefire-way-of-blocking-your-news-posts-from-getting-indexed-into-google-news-from-your-wp-blog\/). <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/news\/publisher\/answer\/74288?hl=en\">Google News Sitemap Guidelines<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<!--section=installation-->\n<p>This will help you to correctly install the plugin<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li>Upload <code>news-sitemap-generator-2014<\/code> directory to the <code>\/wp-content\/plugins\/<\/code> directory<\/li>\n<li>Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress<\/li>\n<li>Move the file \"google-news-sitemap.xml\" to the root directory e.g. public_html and open a SSH terminal. CD into the directory and run chown nobody:nobody google-news-sitemap.xml where nobodoy MAY have to be replaced with your Apache username on certain machines<\/li>\n<li>Publish a test post<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<!--section=faq-->\n<p>No questions yet - send questions to contact@webmaster.net<\/p>\n\n<p>If you need support, please go to our new product support forums at https:\/\/forums.webmaster.net\/#product-support-forums.66<\/p>\n\n<!--section=changelog-->\n<h4>1.03<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Added Stock Ticker<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.02<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>Added Publication Name, Publication Language<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h4>1.0<\/h4>\n\n<ul>\n<li>First Re-Release: Usability Improvements<\/li>\n<\/ul>","raw_excerpt":"Liteweight sitemap generator for Google News that is actually working and easier to use than any of the existing plugins.","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin\/32696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/plugin"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32696"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wporg\/v1\/users\/soliver"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"plugin_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_section?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_tags?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_category?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_contributors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_contributors?post=32696"},{"taxonomy":"plugin_business_model","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ur.wordpress.org\/plugins\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/plugin_business_model?post=32696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}