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1. mediabaron
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   I registered a genres custom taxonomy in functions.php but I don't know how to tweak Google News Sitemap Generator to output the information into my sitemap.

   I added this to my functions.php
   

   function create_my_taxonomies() {
   register_taxonomy('genres', 'post', array(
   'hierarchical' => false, 'label' => 'Genres',
   'query_var' => true, 'rewrite' => true));
   }
   add_action('init', 'create_my_taxonomies', 0);

   And I don't know how to pull the genres into the XML output. I tried the code below but it didn't work.

   $xmlOutput.= "\t\t\t\t<news:genres>";
   		$xmlOutput.= wp_get_object_terms($post->ID, 'genres');
   		$xmlOutput.= "</news:genres>\n";

   What I get in the output is:
   <news:genres>Array</news:genres>

2. mediabaron
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Okay, tried modifying the code, still doesn't quite work. Here's what I come up with.

   For functions.php
   

   //START Custom Taxonomy for Genres
   add_action( 'init', 'create_my_genres' );
   function create_my_genres() {
    $labels = array(
       'name' => _x( 'Genres', 'taxonomy general name' ),
       'singular_name' => _x( 'Genre', 'taxonomy singular name' ),
       'search_items' =>  __( 'Search Genres' ),
       'all_items' => __( 'All Genres' ),
       'parent_item' => __( 'Parent Genre' ),
       'parent_item_colon' => __( 'Parent Genre:' ),
       'edit_item' => __( 'Edit Genre' ),
       'update_item' => __( 'Update Genre' ),
       'add_new_item' => __( 'Add New Genre' ),
       'new_item_name' => __( 'New Genre' ),
     ); 	
   
   register_taxonomy('genre', 'post', array(
     'hierarchical' => true,
     'labels' => $labels
   ));
   }
   //END Custom Taxonomy for Genres

   And for the plugin file:
   

   //START GENRES
   	        $xmlOutput.= "\t\t\t<news:genres>";
   		$xmlOutput.= strip_tags( get_the_term_list( $post->ID, 'genre', '', '', '' ) );
   		$xmlOutput.= "</news:genres>\n";
   		//END GENRES

   It now pulls Genres and outputs without the hyperlinking. The problem is that it isn't post specific and it just pulls the genre for the last published post, tagging every single post with that genre in the sitemap.

   Still stumped. I tried contacting the plugin author with no response which is why I tried taking this on myself.

3. mediabaron
   Member
   Posted 11 months ago #

   Okay, found a better plugin Google XML News Sitemap plugin. Resolved.

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