Comments on: Adding Post Thumbnails To Your Sitemap

By: Chris Carlo

Chris Carlo — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 11:07:57 +0000

Great, plugin patch… I think you’re the first and the only one on the wordpress community. who made a patch on this Google XML Sitemap.. I’ve been looking for something like this because my theme is tumblog style and depends on featured image (post thumbnail) since my site is about gallery collections and other image sitemap generators can’t find my featured image to create a sitemap. So, thank you, for your contribution. I hope that you can get this plugin for downloads… Oh yeah, I just saw just the new update for Google XML sitemap and still this feature is not added, I wonder why… Anyway.. is there a way to incorporate this to the latest one? Again, big thanks..

By: Lee

Lee — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:01:32 +0000

In reply to ericjt.

Can your ready-to-use version of this plugin do that?

Hi, there is no ready-made version, but even if there was, then no – the Google XML Sitemaps plugin doesn’t create an HTML version of the sitemap.

If it can’t, do you know of one that will?

Not off the top of my head – but I’d be surprised if there wasn’t a plugin to do it at wordpress.org …

By: ericjt

ericjt — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 16:33:01 +0000

Hi, this sounds like what I need but maybe I am missing something. I have been using PS Auto Sitemap to create a page that is a sitemap, which I use for my homepage. I want to have a similar page that uses thumbnails next to each post or page listed. Can your ready-to-use version of this plugin do that? If so, how do I make the page appear on my site? I haven’t found any clue as to if and how that can be done. If it can’t, do you know of one that will? Or would you be interested in doctoring the PS Auto Sitemap plugin (or some other one) so it would have a thumbnail at the head of each entry it generates? Thanks.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:42:09 +0000

In reply to Simon.

That’s why then I’m afraid ….

Unfortunately plugins like that, and older themes use a myriad of different ways of storing the “thumbnail” information – so there’s no nice generic way of detecting them and adding them …

My best suggestion would be to use the patch, but to modify the code where it picks up the thumbnail image to match how your plugin stores it – but that’d be a custom solution for your site, and you’d have to maintain it ongoing …

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:31:18 +0000

mmmm oh no.. I don’t use the built post thumbnails of wp 2.9 I use to make it the plugin Thumbnail for Excerpts..

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:25:54 +0000

In reply to Simon. Does your site actually use WordPress "post thumbnails"? How do you set the image for a blog post when you publish it?

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 25 May 2010 17:24:38 +0000

Hello Lee Thanks for your reply! I have see my sitemap.xml
in the header I see

but in the post / tag page / archive i didn’t see any tag for images
Thanks 😉

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:17:20 +0000

In reply to Simon.

View the source of your sitemap in your web browser, and check for two things:
xmlns:image=”http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1″ in the urlset tag, and one or more tags…

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 25 May 2010 15:29:43 +0000

Hello Lee really thanks for this plugin, but How i Can see if it work? I have installed and checked the “thumb post” in xml sitemap plugin but I don’t know if it work, where i can see it?
Thanks
Simone

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 04 May 2010 19:41:07 +0000

In reply to Gabi.

Hi Gabi,

There’s no reason that Google XML Sitemap Generator would “Block” Google indexing your images. Even if the images weren’t in the file that doesn’t mean that Google can’t find them and identify them. I’ve had a look at your robots.txt file and that seems fine (That *can* block Google from indexing certain files on your site) – so I guess it’s just a Google thing …

Best thing would be to sign up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and check it’s nt showing any problems for your site:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/