Comments on: Custom Taxonomies In WordPress Plugins

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 16:00:45 +0000

Actually – there’s a really small bug in 3.1.7 that causes the modification dates to not show up properly. Fortunately the fix is simple – just add the following to the end of the $lastMods query on line 2198:

GROUP BY r.term_taxonomy_id

So the whole query reads:

SELECT
r.term_taxonomy_id AS term_id,
UNIX_TIMESTAMP(MAX(post_date_gmt)) as mod_date
FROM
{$wpdb->posts} p , {$wpdb->term_relationships} r
WHERE
p.ID = r.object_id
AND p.post_status = ‘publish’
AND p.post_type = ‘post’
AND p.post_password = ”
AND r.term_taxonomy_id IN ( “. implode(‘,’,$termIDs) .”)
GROUP BY r.term_taxonomy_id

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 14:51:37 +0000

@eddai – Actually version 3.1.7 should already support custom taxonomies – Arne (The developer) accepted my patches – I just hadn’t got around to updating this post just yet. Hope that helps.

By: eddai

eddai — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:18:20 +0000

@Lee,
google sitemap generator 3.1.7 is out..so will your patches work with it ?

By: cracks

cracks — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:01:18 +0000

wow. worked like a dream Lee – thank you.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:57:31 +0000

Since I’ve had a couple of requests from people who aren’t really into patching – I’ve put copies of the ready patched files here:

http://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/3.1.6/sitemap-core.php
http://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/3.1.6/sitemap-ui.php

Simply put these in wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator in place of the current versions and you’ll get the new functionality.

Note: These are for version 3.1.6 of the plugin only.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:58:43 +0000

In reply to cracks.

Hi, You need to apply the patch to your current plugin using the UNIX “patch” utility. Quick example below (This assumes that you’ve got shell access to your webhost):

Download the patch (Make sure to grab the right version for the version of the plugin you’ve got installed), and save it in the plugin directory (wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator) as patch.txt. Then run the following commands:

$ cd wp-content/plugins/
$ patch -p1 < patch.txt

If you don't have any joy with that, then let me know, and I'll try and put some ready-patched versions up – but that won't be until tonight I'm afraid …

By: cracks

cracks — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:01:33 +0000

wow. the Goog XML Siteap patch is much needed – great work.

now that i found it, what do i do with it / where do i put it / how ..?

By: Lee

Lee — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 19:05:38 +0000

And another update against version 3.1.6 here. This version also calculates a modification date based on the most recent article tagged with a term – which should help Google pick up changes to your term archive pages:

http://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/include_taxonomies_v3.1.6.txt

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:32:10 +0000

There’s an updated version of the patch for Google XML Sitemaps v3.1.5 here:

http://www.leewillis.co.uk/patches/google-sitemap-generator/include_taxonomies_v3.1.5.txt