You can always clone this repo: https://github.com/OddOneOut/Better-WordPress-Google-XML-Sitemaps and checkout the 1.2.1 commit.
Hope that works for you.
sorry if I go to https://github.com/OddOneOut/Better-WordPress-Google-XML-Sitemaps I onlu see the ‘master’ branch.. no 1.2.1 version (or others)
You need to look for the 1.2.1 commit, there’s no branch for 1.2.1.
OK got it…
https://github.com/OddOneOut/Better-WordPress-Google-XML-Sitemaps/tree/4c503343ca7651e3952caa843341b9233db7cd1e
but with the browser not able to download the full .zip file containig the 1.2.1 version…. (for various reasons I cannot run a git command from command line).
I got the customization: the support for image thumbnails has been added.
In file includes/modules/post_google_news.php the following line is added:
$data['news_image'] = wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID, 'thumbnail'));
and in file class-bwp-simple-gxs.php various changes (to long to list here – but in any case changes to support google news image preview).
If i move to latest version of this pluin (1.2.3) I will lost this functionality?
Indeed, image thumbnail support will not be added until version 1.2.5.
ok…that is planned for when? 🙂
PS: if u want I can push you the 2 files changed so you can have google news image support already in the coming release (1.2.4 I guess – if yes can u say planned for when?)
1.2.4 is mostly a bug fixes and compatibility release so no new features are added. You can create a pull request on Github and I will merge it manually into 1.2.5 later on 🙂