$template = ‘sitemap/sitemap’;

the sitemap is outputted as an xml file so no meta tags can be inserted.

And when the engines now crawl my site, do they pick up different variations of the urls?

I have tabs on my homepage that sorts content with a new category keyword in the url.  But when I look at the rendered sitemap, it parses it out and just lists the main template name (not categories within that template?  So, for example, “mysite.com/fruit/apple” becomes “.com/templatename/apple”

Second question..  I have a non-EE forum installed on my site and you get there via mysite.com/forums.  But the sitemap module doesn’t account for it.  Is there a way to make this happen?

the module uses templates to create the urls.  what template is being used to display mysite.com/fruit/apple?

click on the big green “insert new location” button and then you can manually enter your forum url.

Cool.

And for pagination, how does it work with your module?  I’m noticing that items on the 2nd or 3rd page of my homescreen content well aren’t showing up in the sitemap.

the module reads weblog entries directly from the database so i don’t see why pagination on your site would make any difference.

Strange that it isn’t picking up those URLs then.  It picks up some weblog entries, but not all of them.

Have you ever seen this come up before where (for example) certain archived blog entries didn’t show up on the sitemap?

only weblog entries with status “open” are pulled in, i think that’s the problem.  i will change this so that entries with all statuses except for “closed” are used in the next release, next week some time.

These entries are open though.  Its strange, I refreshed the rendered sitemap page and all of a sudden the ones I was searching for appeared.  But now others are missing.  For some reason it appears to be skipping weblog entries within a template group and not inputting all of them into my sitemap.php.

you can PM me with the sitemap url and let me know what is missing and i’ll take a look.

I read this on your site:

A Sitemap tab appears that allows you to select whether or not to notify the search engines. It is selected by default if you are creating a new entry.

This is selected by default for new entries, but for old entries do we need to go in and select it? 

Also, when someone adds comments to a blog entry, are the engines automatically pinged then as well?

yes, it is unselected by default for old entries.

comments do not cause pings.

Hi Ben,

Thanks for a great module!

One question: Now that I’ve installed it, do I have to inform the client that they should tick the “Send sitemap ping to search engines” on the entry they are updating? I understand that new entries will have this automatically ticked.

Also I’m wondering if you are offering developer license pricing?

hi andrew, the reason that the “Send sitemap ping to search engines” checkbox is not automatically ticked when editing an entry is that the changes are usually too minor to justify a sitemap ping.  if new content is created then it is a good idea to ping the search engines, however pinging them for minor content changes is unneccessary and of no benefit.  a major change to an entry could justify a sitemap ping.  so its really up to you what to tell your client.

i already assume that many of the people using the module are developers, so i’m afraid there is just one license for everyone.

Hi Ben,

I’m still having a problem with compatibility between your sitemap module and Leevi’s Better Meta. The problem seems to be the sitemap pinger extension. As soon as it’s enabled, clicking on the Better Meta tab forces the whole options bar (with date, categories, better meta, sitemap pinger etc) to completely disappear. This is different from the other problem I was experiencing where the sitemap module replaced the better meta tab entirely as you fixed this in your previous release.

Would be appreciated if you could take a look at this, thanks

hi y’all,
after upgrading my sitemap provides me with the following output: error on line 1 at column 47: Space required after the Public Identifier
where and what do i need to change.
need very urgent help cause we’re on google news and they stopped picking up our news cause the sitemap ain’t working.
please help!!!
cheers
roman

Everyone clueless, just like me?

hi roman, when did this start happening?  after upgrading the sitemap module or after changing something else?

hi, we moved the webspace, then i did some upgrades - like your module. afterwards i checked and it wasn’t working. it’s pinging all services, so everything seems to be working.
right now i’m quite sure it has something to do with the php limit which will be changed by my provider.
i’ll keep u updated!
i by accident opened another thread to solve the problem and robin managed to help me so far: http://expressionengine.com/forums/viewthread/71548/
it contains the info about the php memory problem on my webspace why the sitemap doesn’t render.