Title: Sitemap Priority Filter – Bug?
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Sitemap Priority Filter – Bug?

 *  Resolved [Flickreel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flickreel/)
 * (@flickreel)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-priority-filter-bug/)
 * Hi there,
 * I can’t tell if this is a bug, or if I have implemented the following code incorrectly.
   For clarity, I’ve added this to the end of my theme’s functions.php file:
 * add_filter( ‘wpseo_xml_post_type_archive_priority’, ‘my_custom_post_type_archive_xml_priority’,
   10, 3 );
    function my_custom_post_type_archive_xml_priority( $return, $type, 
   $post) { if ($type == ‘news’) $return = 0.8; return $return; }
 * I would expect that to override the Priority for ‘news’ on the category sitemap:
   [http://www.flickreel.com/category-sitemap.xml](http://www.flickreel.com/category-sitemap.xml)–
   but it would appear that it has no effect. In fact, having tried all of the code
   in this tutorial (under the heading ‘Change Yoast SEO Sitemap Priority’): [http://chykalophia.com/wordpress/change-yoast-sitemap-frequency-and-priority/](http://chykalophia.com/wordpress/change-yoast-sitemap-frequency-and-priority/)–
   nothing on there seems to have any effect.
 * Not being able to manually set the priority(/frequency) of category pages, etc.
   within the WordPress SEO plugin settings does seem to be quite a severe limitation
   with the plugin. Google appears pretty confused with the way that it displays
   deep links for the site (when it does actually show them). Often prioritising
   a page such as ‘Contact’ over a page such as ‘News’ or ‘Reviews’, which obviously
   isn’t ideal.
 * Thanks for any help,
    Theo.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wordpress-seo/)

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 *  [AskKim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/askkim/)
 * (@askkim)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-priority-filter-bug/#post-7467510)
 * The filter that you are attempting to use applies to the main URL only (or some
   variation of it). There’s another filter for posts/pages. Currently, there is
   not a filter that adjusts taxonomies like categories or tags.
    ​ The priority
   of categories is based on the number of posts in that category. The more posts
   assigned to the category, the higher the priority. Publishing more into a category
   is going to push this number up for you. This allows the plugin to dynamically
   respond to changes in your publishing patterns over time and for Google to be
   pointed to topics that you are spending a lot of time on. ​
 *  Thread Starter [Flickreel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flickreel/)
 * (@flickreel)
 * [9 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sitemap-priority-filter-bug/#post-7467661)
 * In fact, it is possible to change any of these with filters. Here is the code
   for anyone who would like to see how:
 *     ```
       add_filter( 'wpseo_xml_sitemap_post_priority', 'my_custom_post_xml_priority', 10, 3 );
   
       function my_custom_post_xml_priority( $return, $type, $post) {
           if ($type == 'page')
               $return = 0.2;
           return $return;
       }
   
       add_filter( 'wpseo_sitemap_entry', 'my_custom_term_priority', 10, 3 );
   
       function my_custom_term_priority( $url, $type, $term) {
           if ($type == 'term') {
       		if($term->slug == 'news' || $term->slug == 'reviews' || $term->slug == 'trailers') {
                   $url['pri'] = 0.8;
                   $url['chf'] = 'daily';
       		} else if ($term->slug == 'previews' || $term->slug == 'features') {
                   $url['pri'] = 0.8;
       		}
           }
           if($type == 'user') {
               $url['pri'] = 0.4;
               $url['chf'] = 'weekly';
           }
           return $url;
       }
       ```
   

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