New XML Sitemap for Search Engines

**hamidhamid1985** · 01-06-2011, 02:13 PM

this module looks great and its good that it works with latest version of pligg. I hope you always upgrade it for latest versions. Thanks for writing this great module.

**voxxxlll** · 01-06-2011, 02:50 PM

Ok guys.Seems like there is a problem with the XSLT template.If your url is in this format http://www.yoursite.com , then you`re alright, if your site is http://yoursite.com (has no www.) then you have to open sitemap.php , find<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href=" '.my_base_url.my_pligg_base.'/sitemap.xsl"?'.'> and replace '.my_base_url.my_pligg_base.' with your site in this format: http://www.yoursite.com (don`t forget the www) .

Edit:: This problem is solved now, you dont have to change anything.

**urbn** · 01-06-2011, 06:28 PM

Does this sitemap deal with the issues the previous versions have had with it comes to the varioius non-XML supported characters breaking the XML? I am not sure when I will get a chance to test it to confirm with my own site if it works or not but this seems to be the biggest issue with the previous versions that have been released.

**voxxxlll** · 01-06-2011, 06:54 PM

Can you give me an example, so i can test?

**urbn** · 01-06-2011, 09:00 PM

One problem is with dates. If you use the XML / RSS feeds for upcoming since there is no "post date" you will get the following error:

Invalid date
An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.

- <url>
<loc>http://www.justrage.com/alltherest/there-should-be-a-rule/</loc>
<lastmod>1969-12-31T18:00:00-06:00</lastmod>
<changefreq>Never</changefreq>
<priority>0.0001</priority>
</url>

As for the other error's I cannot find one in my current sitemap. But the problem was with single quotes, so a title like "This isn't a broken title, no wait it is!" was causing the error.

**voxxxlll** · 01-06-2011, 09:10 PM

I think there is an if statement for the date which checks if the date is empty or not, in my sitemap only appear published links not upcoming. About the broken title, there is no title in the sitemap, and I didn't find any error using quotes and other signs in links. If anyone finds an error please let me know.