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

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