Tools, Tips and Tutorials » Google http://tutorials.simusonline.com Learn How-To Do Things And Achieve Results Sat, 03 Apr 2010 22:54:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Sitemaps on WordPress-MU Platform http://tutorials.simusonline.com/google-sitemaps-on-wordpress-mu-platform/ http://tutorials.simusonline.com/google-sitemaps-on-wordpress-mu-platform/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:28:56 +0000 Simeon http://tutorials.simusonline.com/?p=10 Have you tried to get Google Sitemaps running on a WordPress-Mu platform? There are a few sitemap plugins available, but the problem is that all of the plugins I could find put the sitemap.xml file in the WordPress mu install directory. The generated sitemap is useful for the primary blog, but not for the subdomain blogs or the subdirectory blogs.

During my research, I came across the famous sitemap generator plugin for wordpress called Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress. It can allow you to easily generate Google XML SiteMap within your blog. But unfortunately the last version I found was not developed for WordPress MU, either.  By default, it could only generate the XML sitemap for the primary blog, not all other blogs in your WordPress MU. That was not enough for me as I had to register all my blogs with the search engines.

I finally came across an interesting article which explains how easy it is to change the code within the Sitemap Generator for WordPress in order to make it generate sitemaps for various blogs installed on a WordPress Mu platform.

You first download the Google XML Sitemaps Generator for WordPress plugin.

You then edit the sitemap-core.php file in the plugin’s folder, and make the following changes:

In the function “GetXmlUrl”, line 1351, change to:

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1358		 function GetXmlUrl($forceAuto=false) {
if(!$forceAuto && $this->GetOption(“b_location_mode”)==“manual”) {
return $this->GetOption(“b_fileurl_manual”);
} else {
return trailingslashit(get_bloginfo(‘siteurl’)) . ‘files/’ .
$this->GetOption(“b_filename”);
}
}

and in the GetXmlPath function, line 1382, change to:

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1389		 function GetXmlPath($forceAuto=false) {
if(!$forceAuto && $this->GetOption(“b_location_mode”)==“manual”) {
return $this->GetOption(“b_filename_manual”);
} else {
wp_mkdir_p(ABSPATH . UPLOADS);
return ABSPATH . UPLOADS . $this->GetOption(“b_filename”);
}
}

This change makes that from now on, the sitemap files will be stored on a per blog basis, inside the blog’s uploads folder.

Upload your modified plugin into the plugins folder, activate it as usual and rebuild your sitemap for each of your blogs.

I am happy to have come across this article. It works and that’s why I had to share it with you.

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If you want to get the stats for all these blogs, you have to register all the blogs individually.
You can not only register the main domain and expect Google to provide you with all statistics relating to the subdomain blogs. You have to go through the verification process in your Google account. Each subdomain is an independant site and you have to prove that the are yours in order to see all statistics and apply on them all the Google tools in your account.
Note that verifying the blog is a step, different from the one of creating a sitemap for your sites.

Thanks

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