Integrating Google XML Sitemaps with Your WordPress Plugin

Sunday, 12th July 2009

Note: Please read my more recent post about Integrating Google XML Sitemaps with the latest version of WP e-Commerce using a plugin by Lee Willis.

One plugin I recommend that everyone should add to their WordPress installation is the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.

This plugin will automatically generate an XML sitemap of your posts and pages and ping supporting search engines to notify them that the sitemap has been updated.

But the best thing about this plugin for other plugin developers is it provides hooks so you can ‘borrow’ it’s functionality so that your plugin can add additional pages into the XML sitemap that is generated.

So if you’re a WordPress plugin developer, read on…

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