jmd_sitemap: Sitemap generator

jm · 2008-05-18 08:51:21

Download 0.1.2. Requires 4.0.6 and PHP 5.

Features

Follows most of the sitemaps.org protocol (priority and changefreq elements are omitted)
Excludable sections
Manual sitemap creation by clicking “Update” in the extensions tab
Sitemap automatically generated upon article creation and modification

Notes

I didn’t implement the priority and changefreq elements because they don’t seem useful.
You must create and chmod 666 sitemap.xml.gz in your web root (i.e., alongside images/ and index.php).
Validate your sitemap with Google Webmaster Tools – the gzip’ed sitemap will return errors for most sitemap validators, unless you gunzip it and validate the XML file.

Todo (next version)

Integrate netcarver’s MLP version
Exclude sticky articles
Exclude articles, but include sections

Todo (maybe/someday)

gbp_permanent_links compatibility

Changelog

2008-05-18: 0.1: Initial release
2008-05-18: 0.1.1: Corrected XML declaration
2008-06-07: 0.1.2: Fixed a future articles bug

Last edited by jm (2008-07-23 06:31:47)

FireFusion · 2008-05-18 09:48:36

Awesome, thank you!

colak · 2008-05-18 10:23:42

hi JM,

What’s the difference between yours and sencer’s implementation?

FireFusion · 2008-05-18 10:54:06

I get an error from Google Sitemaps with this plugin :-(

Sencer’s one was working

Unsupported file format
Your Sitemap does not appear to be in a supported format. Please ensure it meets our Sitemap guidelines and resubmit.

Last edited by FireFusion (2008-05-18 11:28:56)

FireFusion · 2008-05-18 11:05:06

Maybe this can help

About Sitemap errors and warnings
XML Sitemap Format

Only thing I could spot int the header was the header order. I changed this and i’m waiting to see if it has an effect….

<?xml encoding="utf-8" version="1.0"?>

To this…

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

Last edited by FireFusion (2008-05-18 11:18:31)

FireFusion · 2008-05-18 11:28:42

^ Changing the header as above fixed the sitemap.

Google is fussy.

Last edited by FireFusion (2008-05-18 11:55:57)

ruud · 2008-05-18 11:54:03

No, Google merely follows W3C specifications for XML

[23] XMLDecl ::= '<?xml' VersionInfo EncodingDecl? SDDecl? S? '?>'

The encoding value is case insensitive, so it could be either UTF-8 or utf-8.

jm · 2008-05-18 14:53:40

Whoops! I fixed the attribute order for 0.1.1 – thanks Ruud.

colak wrote:

What’s the difference between yours and sencer’s implementation?

Mainly excludable sections (without editing source code). My plugin doesn’t manually ping Google either – it’s no longer needed after you add your sitemap via robots.txt or Google webmaster tools.

merz1 · 2008-05-19 11:03:30

> Requires 4.0.6 and PHP5.

I am having PHP-Version: 4.4.8 in my shared hosting environment :-(

Would it be possible to get a PHP4 version or simply run the old version (as I do)?

jm · 2008-05-19 14:50:04

It is possible, but it isn’t worth the effort. Did your host miss gophp5?

If you do want to backport it to PHP 4, you’ll need to add an ISO 8601 function to replace date('c'), and you’ll need to remove every private and public keyword, basically making OOP worthless.

But really, make your host upgrade. A number of shared hosts have two versions of PHP running – you just “turn on” PHP 5 with a line in a .htaccess file.

Last edited by jm (2008-05-19 14:50:25)

merz1 · 2008-05-21 21:33:30

Thanks for the tip. I will ask my hosting company (1&1 Germany).

jm · 2008-05-22 02:38:37

Markus – check this out :).

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