New Mura CMS Plugin - MuraGoogleNewsSitemaps

November 29, 2016

A few years ago Grant Shepert / Meld Solutions wrote the Meld-Google-Sitemaps plugin, for generating Google Sitemap XML files in Mura websites.  With Grant’s permission, I forked that project and wrote MuraGoogleNewsSitemaps for generating Google News Sitemap XML files (per Google, this is the XML file that stores only new “newsworthy” content added to the site within the last 48 hours).  You can find more info about the spec here and here.

Anyway, the plugin is done and appears to be playing nicely in a couple websites so I think it’s ready for public consumption. You can find the repo here:

https://github.com/nolanerck/MuraGoogleNewsSitemaps

I’ve only tested it on Mura 7 sites, but the original plugin from Meld works on 6.x just fine, and I don’t believe any of my changes are 7 specific, so you should be okay (but if anyone notices an issue please let me know).

Thanks again to Grant Shepert for help along the way! Though I split this out into its own plugin, Grant truly did the bulk of the work -- making this "news specific" version only took a few small modifications to Grant's original code.

Enjoy,
Nolan