Google News Sitemap Feed With Multisite Support Plugin

This plugin dynamically creates a feed that comply with the Google News Sitemap protocol. There are no options to neither be set nor file or dir access rights to be tampered with and the sitemap become instantly available. Google News Sitemap will be reachable at example.com/sitemap-news.xml (or example.com/?feed=sitemap-news), ready for indexing by Google News.

Compatible with WordPress MU

Compatible with caching plugins like Super Cache, W3 Total Cache and Quick Cache that cache feeds.

Credits

The plugin is based on XML Sitemap & Google News Sitemap Feeds plugin by RavanH (https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/).
XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the (discontinued?) plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia.

Quick installation:

Go to Plugins > Add New back-end page, search for “Google News Sitemap Feed With Multisite Support”, install the plugin and activate it. There are no settings.

Manual installation:

1. Download the plugin, unzip it and upload it to /plugins/ directory.

2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

3. There are no settings.

Check Google News Sitemap by visiting example.com/sitemap-news.xml with a browser or any online XML Sitemap validator.

1. 

   XML Sitemap feed from nytimes.com in Mozilla Firefox browser.

3.3

• Includes categories in keywords. Uncategorized category is omitted.

3.2

• Properly shows titles with special characters.
• Database request tune up for blogs with more than 1000 posts for last 2 days.

3.1

• Based on XML Sitemap & Google News Sitemap Feeds plugin v.3.9.1.