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1. msafi
   Member
   Posted 3 months ago #

   I mainly use Pages (not Posts) and wanted a way to exclude Pages by the ID of their parent. Since Google XML Sitemaps didn't have this feature built in, I implemented it myself. I'm here to share the simple code.

   Starting Line 1762 of sitemap-core.php, insert the following block:

   foreach ($excludes as $exclude)
   {
       $children = get_pages(array('child_of' => $exclude));
   
       foreach ($children as $child)
           $exChildren[] = $child->ID;
   }

   Then at Line 1781, insert:

   if (is_array($exChildren))
       $excludes = array_merge($exChildren, $excludes);

   That's it. If your blog breaks as a result of this, I'm not responsible.

   Best,

2. spinality
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   This would be a very desirable feature for the base plug-in, and in fact it's strange not to be there already. I hope Arne considers making the change. It has always struck me as a key problem for the plugin and the reason I can't use it and had to roll my own.

3. spinality
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   FWIW the above edit does not seem to work in the current release (3.1.6). The following seems to work, at line #1778 (I've included the adjacent unmodified lines to show where it goes:

   $excludes = $this->GetOption('b_exclude'); //Excluded posts
   
   // insert begins here
   foreach ($excludes as $exclude) {
     $children = get_pages(array('child_of' => $exclude));
     foreach ($children as $child)
       $exChildren[] = $child->ID;
       }
     if (is_array($exChildren)) $excludes = array_merge($exChildren, $excludes);
   // insert ends here
   
   $exclCats = $this->GetOption("b_exclude_cats"); // Excluded cats

   As msafi said above, try at your own risk. :)

4. msafi
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   spinality,

   I was reluctant to update for fear I'd have to think some more to get the functionality back. Thanks to you, I don't have to think :)

   Best,

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