News articles in XML sitemap (Sitemap Made Simple)

[Chris]

Hi Everybody,

I use SitemapMadeSimple to generate a Google compatible XML sitemap, but it doesn't include my news pages. Does anyone know how I can do this?

Thanks in Advance!

Chris

[JeremyBASS]

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{* sitemap template *}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">

{foreach from=$output item='page'}
<url>
  <loc>{$page->url}</loc>
  <lastmod>{$page->date|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
  <priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>

</url>
{/foreach}
{capture assign='junk'}{news number='1000'}{/capture}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<url>
  <loc>{$entry->moreurl}</loc>

{if $entry->formatpostdate}
  <lastmod>{$entry->formatpostdate|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
{/if}
<priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}
</urlset>

would work with blogs to...
jeremyBass

[JeremyBASS]

Correction on this... Blogs doesn't seem to work fully here ... the landing page in the url seems to be missing... I think that is the issue...

I'm sure someone like Calguy would know why but.. fix that and the we'd be back to what I said beofre...

Have a great one...
jeremyBass
fixed... look to this post for the bolg fix and the news fix..

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... #msg133319

[Romke]

Google accepts not only it's own xml sitemap format but also RSS . So you can add both the xml sitemap from the Sitemap Made Simple module and the RSS feed of your news pages.

[JeremyBASS]

I also fixed the news and blogs up alittle better look to the tips and tricks area... here is the post it's self witht he news fix...

http://forum.cmsmadesimple.org/index.ph ... #msg133319

[katea]

A gift

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{* sitemap template *}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84"
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84
	http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap/0.84/sitemap.xsd">

{foreach from=$output item='page'}
<url>
  <loc>{$page->url}</loc>
  <lastmod>{$page->date|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
  <priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>

</url>
{/foreach}
{capture assign='junk'}{news number='1000'}{/capture}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<url>
  <loc>{$entry->moreurl}</loc>

{if $entry->formatpostdate}
  <lastmod>{$entry->formatpostdate|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
{/if}
<priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}
</urlset>

would work with blogs to...
jeremyBass

Hi Jeremy, This works great in News, but where do I put this in Blogs?

Thanks

[JeremyBASS]

Well you'd want to capture the blog output... so {capture assign='junk'}{CGBlog pagelimit="100000" }{/capture}  or what have you.. then it's just the parts of the defualt template.

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{capture assign='junk'}{CGBlog pagelimit="100000" }{/capture}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<url>
  <loc>{$entry->detail_url}</loc>

{if $entry->formatpostdate}
  <lastmod>{$entry->postdate|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
{/if}
<priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}

So this can be done for more than just blogs or news,... got products? Have a User directory via FEU or Company directories?  With this route you can take hold and make an almost permanent link for every nooke and crany of a CMSMS site..

[katea]

Hi Jeremy,

Thanks for the swift reply ...

This is mmy template, but the sitemap only picks up just one of the entries

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{* sitemap template *}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
      xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
      xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
            http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<!-- created with Free Online Sitemap Generator www.xml-sitemaps.com -->

{foreach from=$output item='page'}
<url>
  <loc>{$page->url}</loc>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}

</urlset>

{capture assign='junk'}{CGBlog pagelimit="100000" }{/capture}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
<url>
  <loc>{$entry->detail_url}</loc>

{if $entry->formatpostdate}
  <lastmod>{$entry->postdate|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
{/if}
<priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}

Help!!! ;o)

p.s It was my first blog entry thast it picked up ... Not sure if that helps?

[JeremyBASS]

oh.. try

{CGBlog}

[katea]

Took out the post count and just put  {CGBlog} and still the same ...

I cleared the cache and everything, but still just the first post

Oh, and the URL comes up as

http://www.mysite.com/cgblog/1//MyFirstEntry

Instead of

http://www.mysite.com/Blog/1/60/MyFirstEntry

So Blog is being changed to cgblog and I'm getting a double // after 1

[JeremyBASS]

welll.. look to the blog.... look to the Default summary page that should fix it... for the //

[katea]

welll.. look to the blog.... look to the Default summary page that should fix it... for the //

Sorry, I'm lost... I should look at changing the blog template?

Right now it's working good with the url's,, it's just the sitemap isn't picking up the entries... I don't really want to be messing around with the blog unless I can get it close to working,m getting all the URL's etc...

I know I'm a pain, but I really want this to work to save me from having to manually update my sitemap every time I post a blog entry.

I thank you for your patience Jeremy

[JeremyBASS]

Sorry that was vage there... got to Content » Calguys Blog Module  and in the options, and set the Default summary page ... that should fix it...

[katea]

Sorry that was vage there... got to Content » Calguys Blog Module  and in the options, and set the Default summary page ... that should fix it...

Hi Jeremy,

OK, I did that, but I could only change the cgblog to blog, which is a great start obviously ....

However, in the sitemap, I sill only have the first entry and I still have the /1//entry instead of the 1/60/entry

I've played around with the code quite a bit, but getting this to work seems impossible.

Strange though as it works great in News!!!

[JeremyBASS]

well this worked for me...

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{capture assign='junk'}{Blogs numentries="10000"}{/capture}
{foreach from=$items item=entry}
{assign var=utmpBLOGS value=$entry->entryurl|replace:'//':'/51/'|replace:'http:/51':'http:/'}
<url>
  <loc>{$utmpBLOGS}</loc>
  <lastmod>{$entry->time|date_format:"%Y-%m-%d"}</lastmod>
<priority>{$page->priority}</priority>
  <changefreq>{$page->frequency}</changefreq>
</url>
{/foreach}

just replace 51 with the page you want it to land on...