News Sitemap for Publishers

News Sitemap for Publishers Extends WordPress's XML sitemaps feature to add a news sitemap for Google, Yahoo, Bing, et al. Description Extends WordPress's XML sitemaps feature to add a news sitemap. News sitemaps are used by Google and others to surface recent news articles by publishers. Installation You can install the package via Composer: Usage Activate the plugin in WordPress and flush your rewrite rules (simply navigate to Settings → Permalinks in the WordPress admin to do so). You can verify that the plugin is working by navigating to /wp-news-sitemap.xml on your site. You should also find a new sitemap entry in your site's robots.txt file for this URL. Development To set up a WordPress installation and run the plugin in a local environment, you can use wp-env via the composer dev command: The command will start a local WordPress environment with the plugin activated. Testing Run composer test to run tests against PHPUnit and the PHP code in the plugin. Unit testing code is written in PSR-4 format and can be found in the tests directory. Releasing the Plugin The plugin uses action-release via a built release workflow to compile and tag releases. Whenever a new