Olav Kolbu

Google aggregates news from over 4500 news sources, updated 
continously. The results can be retrieved as a number of 
RSS feeds, where you can create your own specific feed by 
specifying one of more than 40 regions/languages, and an 
optional topic ranging from Domestic to Most Popular to 
Entertainment. Currently there are nine topics, including, 
of course, All. In addition to this, any feed can be filtered 
through a search query so that only news items matching your 
query will be shown. Note that not all combinations of 
region/language and topic has been enabled by Google but 
it should degrade gracefully.
This plugin works both as a widget, as inline content 
replacement and can be called from themes. Any number of 
inline replacements or theme calls allowed, but only one 
widget instance is supported in this release.
For widget use, simply use the widget as any other after 
selecting which feed it should display. For inline content 
replacement, insert the one or more of the following strings in 
your content and they will be replaced by the relevant news feed. 
For theme use, add the do_action function call described below.
<ol>
<li><code></code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code></code></li>
</ol>
Shortcodes can be used if you have WordPress 2.5 or above, 
in which case these replacement methods are also available.
<ol>
<li><code>[google-news]</code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code>[google-news name="feedname"]</code></li>
</ol>
Calling the plugin from a theme is done with the WP do_action() 
system. This will degrade gracefully and not produce errors 
or output if plugin is disabled or removed.
<ol>
<li><code><?php do_action('google_news'); ?></code> for the default feed</li>
<li><code><?php do_action('google_news', 'feedname'); ?></code></li>
</ol>
Enable plugin, go to the Google News page under 
Dashboard->Settings and read the initial information. Then 
go to the Google News page under Dashboard->Manage and 
configure one or more feeds. Then use a widget or insert 
relevant strings in your content or theme.
Additional information:
The available options are as follows.
Name: Optional feed name, that can be used in the 
widget or the inline replacement string to reference 
a specific feed. Any feed without a name is considered 
“default” and will be used if the replacement strings do 
not reference a specific feed. If there are more than 
one feed with the same name, a random of these is picked 
every time it is used. This also applies to the default 
feed(s).
Title: Optional, which when set will be used in the 
widget title or as a header above the news items when 
inline. If the title is empty, then a default title 
of “Google News : <region> : <feed type>” is used. Note 
that as per Google Terms of Service it is a requirement 
to state that the news come from Google.
News region: A dropdown list of 40 choices, determining 
the region/language of the feed.
News type: Another dropdown list, determining what type of 
news you are after. Sci/Tech, Business, Health etc.
Output type: Some Google feeds come with just text, 
some pictures or pictures on nearly every news item. Chose 
which one you want here.
News item length: Short or long. The short version is really just 
the news item title as a one liner but probably the one most 
WP admins will use. The long version is a 3-4 line teaser that 
has been severely stripped of useless markup that Google insists 
on passing along, including tables, links, colour/font/style 
settings etc. I’ve tried to clean it up so it won’t mess up your 
theme. For the short version, the long text without html tags is 
available as a mouse rollover/tooltip.
Max items to show: As the title says, if the feed has 
sufficient entries to fulfil the request.
Optional query filter: One of the most important parts of 
the Google News RSS Feed is the ability to filter the news 
with your very own search query. Get relevant, up to date 
news on the exact topic you want. Note that if you add a 
search query, then the short item length will include an 
“all N news articles” link curtesy Google. If you choose 
to add a query, then you most likely want to set a title 
as well. To explain to the viewer what kind of news you have 
selected for them to see. The News Query isn’t like a standard 
Google Query, so you can’t use || between words to search 
for one or the other. So IFF you start your query with 
the word OR then the rest of the words will be or’ed 
together. I.e. a query string of ‘OR this that’ will look 
for news containing either this or that. This is really 
just a test, so the actual query language used here may change in 
future versions.
Cache time: The feeds are now fetched using WordPress 
builtin MagpieRSS system, which allows for caching of feeds 
a specific number of seconds. Cached feeds are stored in 
the backend database.
Clicking on a news item will of course take you via Google to 
the news site with the relevant article, as per Google Terms of Use.
If you want to change the look&feel, the inline table is 
wrapped in a div with the id “google-news-inline” and the 
widget is wrapped in an li with id “google-news”. Let me 
know if you need more to properly skin it.
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Google News

Displays news items from selectable Google News RSS feeds, inline, as a widget or in a theme. Multiple feeds allowed. Query filters and caching.

Rolf Allard van Hagen

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap. Compatible with WordPress Multisite, Polylang and WPML and most caching plugins. There are no static files created.
NEW: Connect your site to your Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors. 
NEW: Submit your sitemaps right from the WordPress admin. Yes, you read that correctly: Sitemap Pings are back!
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Control the WordPress core XML Sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Connect your site to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to keep an eye on sitemap performance and possible errors.</li>
<li>Submit/ping sitemaps to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools for fast reindexation.</li>
<li>Add custom robots.txt rules.</li>
</ul>
XML Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Option to disable the main XML Sitemap Index.</li>
<li>Select sitemaps to include in the sitemap index: post types, taxonomies, authors and google news.</li>
<li>Select which (custom) post types, taxonomy archives and users to include in respective sitemaps.</li>
<li>Exclude specific posts, pages and custom post type posts from sitemaps.</li>
<li>Add a custom sitemap with external URLs.</li>
<li>Add external sitemaps.</li>
<li>Choose the sitemap server/generator: WordPress core or Plugin.</li>
<li>Plugin server: Include featured images or attached images with title.</li>
<li>Choose to update Last modification date only on post modification (default) or also on comments.</li>
<li>Sitemap stylesheet templates can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
Google News Sitemap
<ul>
<li>Optionally activate the Google News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Includes the required news sitemap tags: Publication name, language, title and publication date.</li>
<li>Set a News Publication Name (site name by default).</li>
<li>Supports custom post types.</li>
<li>Limit inclusion of certain post categories.</li>
<li>Google News Sitemap stylesheet template can be overridden by theme template files.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pro Extensions</h4>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/xml-sitemap-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">XML Sitemap Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap notifier: Automatic XML Sitemap Index update notification to Google and Bing.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Set a custom sitemap URL (slug)</li>
<li>Exclude posts and pages in the Bulk Editor.</li>
<li>Optionally include empty taxonomy term and empty author archives</li>
<li>Yoast SEO and Rank Math compatibility: exclude posts set to noindex</li>
</ul>
<a href="https://premium.status301.com/downloads/google-news-advanced/" rel="nofollow ugc">Google News Advanced</a>
<ul>
<li>Sitemap norifier: Automatic Google News Sitemap update notification to Google.</li>
<li>Sitemap notifier log</li>
<li>Multiple post types – Include more than one post type in the same News Sitemap.</li>
<li>Keywords – Add the keywords tag to your News Sitemap. Keywords can be created from Tags, Categories or a dedicated Keywords taxonomy.</li>
<li>Stock tickers – Add stock tickers tag to your News Sitemap. A dedicated Stock Tickers taxonomy will be available to manage them.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Privacy / GDPR</h4>
This plugin does not collect any user or visitor data nor set browser cookies. Using this plugin should not impact your site privacy policy in any way.
Data that is published
An XML Sitemap index, referencing other sitemaps containing your web site’s public post URLs of selected post types that are already public, along with their last modification date and associated image URLs, and any selected public archive URLs. 
An author sitemap can be included, which will contain links to author archive pages. These urls contain author/user slugs, and the author archives can contain author bio information. If you wish to keep this out of public domain, then deactivate the author sitemap and use an SEO plugin to add noindex headers to the respective archive pages.
A Google News Sitemap containing your web site’s public and recent (last 48 hours) URLs of selected news post type, along with their publication time stamp and associated image URL.
Data that is transmitted
when a connection between your site and Google Search Console is configured in this plugin, the sitemap index and google news sitemap can be submitted to Google. No data is transmitted to any third party.
<h4>Contribute</h4>
If you’re happy with this plugin as it is, please consider writing a quick <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed/reviews/#new-post" rel="ugc">rating</a> or helping other users out on the <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemap-feed" rel="ugc">support forum</a>.
If you wish to help build this plugin, you’re very welcome to <a href="https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">translate it into your language</a> or contribute code on <a href="https://github.com/RavanH/xml-sitemap-feed/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.
<h4>Credits</h4>
XML Sitemap Feed was originally based on the discontinued plugin Standard XML Sitemap Generator by Patrick Chia. Since then, it has been completely rewritten and extended in many ways.
NOTES:
<ol>
<li>
If you do not use fancy URL’s or you have WordPress site running in a subdirectory, a dynamic robots.txt will NOT be generated.
</li>
<li>
On large sites, it is advised to use a good caching plugin to improve your site and sitemap performance.
</li>
</ol>

XML Sitemap & Google News


I've been trying several plugins to generate a proper sitemap on our site. This one has a simple yet effective setup and really works like a charm with my CPT's.


Really works with custom post types


This is probably the best sitemap plugin available.


Best Sitemap Plugin

Take control of your WordPress core XML Sitemap and add a Google News Sitemap.

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