Title: Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema Author: redjaguar Published: November 13, 2026 Last modified: November 13, 2026 --- Search plugins ![](https://ps.w.org/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/assets/banner-772x250.jpg?rev =3801012) ![](https://ps.w.org/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/assets/icon.svg?rev=3801012) # Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema By [redjaguar](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redjaguar/) [Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema.0.1.0.zip) * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/#description) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/#reviews) * [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/#installation) * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/#developers) [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/) ## Description Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema helps newsrooms publish the technical signals news search engines look for, and tells them in plain language what is still missing. It was built for small and independent newsrooms, including those that work under pressure, so it also checks what the site reveals about the people who make it. Everything Google News needs is here, free: the news sitemap, the structured data and the readiness check. It stays free, with every update included, and we keep improving it based on what newsrooms ask for. #### News sitemap * Follows the Google News specification: articles from the last 48 hours (up to 1,000), publication name and language. * Language per article from Polylang or WPML. * Leave out a single article from the editor, or limit the sitemap to some categories. * Detects the news sitemaps of Yoast News SEO, Rank Math and XML Sitemap & Google News, and is listed in the sitemap index of Yoast SEO and Rank Math. * Clears the cache of LiteSpeed, W3 Total Cache, WP Super Cache, WP Rocket, Nginx Helper and Cloudflare when it changes. #### Structured data * NewsArticle and NewsMediaOrganization, with logo, location and your editorial policies (corrections, ethics, ownership and funding, and more). * Works with Yoast SEO and Rank Math: it completes their markup instead of printing a second copy. * Authors with job title, biography and public profiles, filled in from each user’s profile. Accounts that sign as the newsroom are attributed to the organization, not to a person. * A “Credit” field for each image in the media library, published as the photo credit. * Co-Authors Plus support. #### Readiness check About 80 checks against the pages your site actually publishes: crawling and indexing, robots.txt, the news sitemap, structured data, images, dates and time zone, author pages, editorial policies, newsroom protection, HTTPS. Each problem comes with how to fix it, step by step. * Runs every day. The results are in the plugin, on the Dashboard and in Tools Site Health. * Recognizes test copies (staging, development) and does not report what is normal there. * Manual checklist for what WordPress cannot verify, such as Google Search Console. * A check in the block editor before publishing: featured image size, alternative text, photo credit and the author’s biography. #### Newsroom protection checks The readiness check looks for what can expose the people who make the news, and explains how to fix each thing by hand: * photos published with their GPS position or the serial number of the camera or phone; * author page addresses that reveal the login name; * the list of users that WordPress publishes in its API; * bylines that show a login name, and authors who protect their identity but keep their real name in their profile. Each author can tick “Protect my identity” in their profile so the plugin stops suggesting public profiles and contacts for them. #### Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema Pro An optional paid add-on, for newsrooms that want the plugin to do more of the work: it removes the location and device data from photos automatically, hides the user list, adds an authors screen, an author box, editorial policy templates in Spanish and English, email alerts, language and article type by category and WP-CLI commands. This plugin works fully without it. Paying newsrooms fund donated licenses for independent and at-risk media, endorsed by chequea.la, seguridades.org and allied organizations. More at [redjaguar.agency/plugins](https://redjaguar.agency/plugins/). #### Privacy * The plugin does not contact any external service, does not track visitors, sets no cookies and sends no emails. The readiness check only requests pages of your own site. * It publishes about each author only what the newsroom fills in: job title, biography, profiles and an optional public contact. It never publishes the email of their account. * It stores its settings, the last results of the readiness check (which name articles and authors with problems) and the profile fields above in your WordPress database. Only administrators see the results. Removing the plugin deletes all of it. * The article setting “Exclude from the news sitemap” is only visible in the REST API to people who can edit the article. Google News is a trademark of Google LLC. This plugin is not affiliated with or endorsed by Google. ## Screenshots [⌊The dashboard: what to fix first, in plain language, and how.⌉⌊The dashboard: what to fix first, in plain language, and how.⌉[ The dashboard: what to fix first, in plain language, and how. [⌊The readiness check, grouped by section.⌉⌊The readiness check, grouped by section .⌉[ The readiness check, grouped by section. [⌊Publisher details for the structured data and the news sitemap.⌉⌊Publisher details for the structured data and the news sitemap.⌉[ Publisher details for the structured data and the news sitemap. [⌊Author fields in the user profile.⌉⌊Author fields in the user profile.⌉[ Author fields in the user profile. [⌊The news check in the block editor, before publishing.⌉⌊The news check in the block editor, before publishing.⌉[ The news check in the block editor, before publishing. [⌊News sitemap settings and the articles listed now.⌉⌊News sitemap settings and the articles listed now.⌉[ News sitemap settings and the articles listed now. ## Installation 1. Install and activate the plugin. 2. Open **News Schema Publisher** and fill in your newsroom name, logo, city and country. 3. Open **News Schema Readiness check** and fix what it reports, starting with the errors. 4. Ask each author to fill in their job title and profiles in **Users Profile**. 5. Submit the news sitemap address (shown in **News Schema Sitemap**) in Google Search Console. ## FAQ ### Will this get my site into Google News? No plugin can promise that. Google decides which sites appear in Google News, and there is no application form any more. This plugin takes care of the technical part and tells you what else Google looks for, such as editorial policies and information about your authors. ### I already use Yoast SEO or Rank Math. Do I need this? Their free versions do not make a news sitemap, and their markup does not include your editorial policies. This plugin adds that to their markup instead of printing a second copy. Choose who prints the structured data in News Schema Schema. ### I already have a news sitemap from another plugin. The readiness check detects it. Keep only one: two news sitemaps with the same articles confuse search engines. ### The check says my photos have location data. How do I remove it? The readiness check explains how. In Windows: Properties Details “Remove properties and personal information”. On a Mac: open the photo in Preview, Tools Show Inspector“ Remove Location Info”. On phones, turn off the location for the camera. Photos already published have to be uploaded again in place of the old ones. The Pro add-on does it automatically for every upload and for the photos already published. ### The check says my older images lack crops. Google recommends 16:9, 4:3 and 1:1 versions of each article image. WordPress only creates them for images uploaded after the plugin is active. Regenerate the older ones with a plugin such as Regenerate Thumbnails, or with `wp media regenerate`. ### My site publishes in more than one language. With Polylang or WPML each article uses its own language. Without them, every article uses the site language. The Pro add-on can set a language per category, for an “ English” section, for example. ### Does it support paywalled or members-only articles? No. The plugin does not mark articles that readers must pay or register to read. If your paywall keeps the full text in the page and only hides it from readers, Google may treat it as cloaking unless the structured data says which part is not free (`isAccessibleForFree` and `hasPart`). Check whether your membership plugin adds that markup. The readiness check warns you when it detects Paid Memberships Pro, MemberPress, Restrict Content, Leaky Paywall, Memberful, Simple Membership or WooCommerce Memberships. Donation or membership requests that do not hide any text need nothing. ### Does it send emails? No. The results of the daily check are in the plugin, on the Dashboard and in Site Health. Email alerts are part of the Pro add-on. ### Which languages is it available in? English and Spanish. ## Reviews There are no reviews for this plugin. ## Contributors & Developers “Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin. Contributors * [ redjaguar ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/redjaguar/) “Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema” has been translated into 1 locale. Thank you to [the translators](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/contributors) for their contributions. [Translate “Red Jaguar – News Sitemap & Schema” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema) ### Interested in development? [Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/), check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/), or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/) by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss). ## Changelog #### 0.1.0 * First version. * News sitemap, NewsArticle and NewsMediaOrganization structured data, with Yoast SEO and Rank Math support. * Readiness check, with newsroom protection checks, Site Health, a Dashboard widget and a check in the block editor. * Author fields in the user profile, and newsroom accounts attributed to the organization. * Setup notice and import from Yoast SEO or Rank Math. * About screen with a glossary of the terms the plugin uses. ## Meta * Version **0.1.0** * Last updated **6 hours ago** * Active installations **Fewer than 10** * WordPress version ** 6.5 or higher ** * Tested up to **7.1.4** * PHP version ** 7.4 or higher ** * Languages * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/) and [Spanish (Mexico)](https://es-mx.wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/). * [Translate into your language](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema) * Tags * [journalism](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/journalism/)[news](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/news/) [schema](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/schema/)[sitemap](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/sitemap/) [structured data](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/structured-data/) * [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/redjaguar-news-sitemap-schema/advanced/) ## Ratings No reviews have been submitted yet. 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