News sitemap doesn’t work when I have Custom Post Type ‘News’
If you have the Custom Post Type News, your sitemap may work differently than expected. The default Yoast-News-Sitemap will only show if you have a published news article within the past 48 hours. You may need to publish a post-type in order to generate that sitemap.
Yoast News SEO will automatically detect a naming collision and change the news sitemap name. You can find the correct sitemap URL under Local SEO.
If you want give your news sitemap a custom name, please use the developer filter discussed below.
How to change the news sitemap URL with a developer filter
- Disable all sitemaps
- Add the following filter in your theme’s functions.php file
/* Change Yoast News sitemap when custom post news conflicts */
function wpseo_change_news_sitemap() {
return "google_news";
}
add_filter('Yoast\WP\News\sitemap_name', 'wpseo_change_news_sitemap'); - Enable all sitemaps
- You have created one News custom post type sitemap and a second sitemap formatted for Google News guidelines
The News custom post sitemap will look like www.example.com/news-sitemap.xml; the Google News format will look like www.example.com/google_news-sitemap.xml.
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