{"id":811,"date":"2019-06-13T11:21:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2019-06-13T11:21:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T11:21:48","slug":"google-proposed-integration-of-xml-sitemaps-in-wordpress-core","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/google-proposed-integration-of-xml-sitemaps-in-wordpress-core\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Proposed Integration of XML Sitemaps in WordPress Core"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Huge no of WordPress websites\u2019 search engine visibility gets affected as <strong>WordPress core<\/strong> doesn\u2019t generate <a href=\"\/microblog\/google-wont-change-crawl-rate-if-your-sitemap-goes-missing\/\">XML Sitemaps<\/a> by default.<\/p>\n<p>So, to cope with this issue, <strong>Google<\/strong> in collaboration with <strong>Yoast<\/strong> and other contributors has proposed integration of <strong>XML Sitemaps<\/strong> to WordPress core as a feature project. Yesterday, Google&#8217;s Developer Program Engineer, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swissspidy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pascal Birchler<\/a> made this announcement on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet tw-align-center\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Announcing the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WordPress?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WordPress<\/a> XML Sitemaps Feature Project Proposal \ud83d\udca5\ud83c\udf89<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dc1sy4lPjJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/dc1sy4lPjJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pascal Birchler (@swissspidy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/swissspidy\/status\/1138776315342020608?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The intention behind this proposal is to integrate the basic XML Sitemaps in WordPress Core and introduce an <strong>XML Sitemaps API<\/strong> to make it fully extendable.<\/p>\n<p>This XML Sitemap will be enabled by default and will make the below mentioned content types indexable \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Homepage<\/li>\n<li>Posts page<\/li>\n<li>Core Post Types (Pages and Posts)<\/li>\n<li>Custom Post Types<\/li>\n<li>Core Taxonomies (Tags and Categories)<\/li>\n<li>Custom Taxonomies<\/li>\n<li>Users (Authors)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, the <strong>robots.txt<\/strong> file will reference the Sitemap index.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Proposed-XML-Sitemaps-Structure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Proposed-XML-Sitemaps-Structure.jpg\" alt=\"Proposed XML Sitemaps Structure\" width=\"700\" height=\"610\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-813\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Proposed-XML-Sitemaps-Structure.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Proposed-XML-Sitemaps-Structure-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.suvaance.com\/microblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Proposed-XML-Sitemaps-Structure-640x558.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Developers may also try to manipulate the XML Sitemap by using the newly introduced XML Sitemap API in following ways \u2013<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Add extra Sitemaps and Sitemap entries<\/li>\n<li>Add extra attributes to Sitemap entries<\/li>\n<li>Provide a custom XML Stylesheet<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific post type from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific post from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific taxonomy from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific term from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific author from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<li>Exclude a specific authors with a specific role from the Sitemap<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2019\/06\/12\/xml-sitemaps-feature-project-proposal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/make.wordpress.org\/core\/2019\/06\/12\/xml-Sitemaps-feature-project-proposal\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge no of WordPress websites\u2019 search engine visibility gets affected as WordPress core doesn\u2019t generate XML Sitemaps by default. 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