XML Sitemap & Google News
XML Sitemap & Google News is a WordPress plugin for XML Sitemaps. It ranks #4 of 41 in that group by active installs and was last updated 5 months ago.
Slug xml-sitemap-feed
Maintenance check
Is XML Sitemap & Google News still maintained?
Yes - by every measure the directory publishes, it is actively maintained.
- Updated recently. The last release was 5 months ago.
- Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 7.0.8, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
- Well rated. 4.4 out of 5 from 85 ratings.
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More installed than 99.0% of the directory
Ahead of 47,267 of the 47,729 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.
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The record
Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.
- Current version
- 5.7.7
- Requires WordPress
- 4.4
- Tested up to
- 7.0.8
- Requires PHP
- 5.6
- Added to the directory
- 26 September 2009
- Last updated
- 10 June 2026
- Contributors
- 1
- Author
- Rolf Allard van Hagen
- Support threads resolved
- 1 of 2
Its own tags
- google news
- news
- robots
- sitemap
- xml
Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.
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