Creating a Sitemap in Word Press 2.8
It appears there must have been sort of upgrade with my sitemap plugin, as when I first installed it on http://www.swapsjuggling.com it created a new page and did everything for me. Easy as pie.
However, when I installed it here at nsofi.org and on http://www.hydrophidian.com , a new page was not created, and I had to go through all the settings.
This entailed going to the installed plugin area and finding the Google XML Sitemaps plugin, clicking on settings, clicking on status and ensuring that the sitemap has been built, (it left me with a white page that seemed to still be working on creating the sitemap, I eventually hit “posts” to get off of the page, and everything seemed to be setup). Then I was just going through each tab, leaving most checkmarks as they are. I clicked on the link under the basic options tab to get an application key from Yahoo.
I have no idea if I need separate keys for each website, so I click on the request one here link but only get a white screen. I try again. I am finding other keys when logging into the Yahoo Developers site, so I’m using one of the ones that isn’t associated with nsofi. I’m feeling really lost. I am not a techie. These long strings of letters and numbers confuse me. I don’t know what to do with all the extra keys I wound up with when Yahoo kept giving me a blank white screen. I now have 3 keys associated with Hydrophidian.com. I’m picking one and updating my plugin settings with it. I try out the “new application” option, and it brings me to a familiar form, with everything filled out, and it is generic. So I grab another key to use with one of the other sites. Now that I know they are generic, I know can use the extras I had previously created for my other sites. I still don’t know if I need separate keys for each site, but that’s what I’m doing anyway.
I didn’t touch any advanced options.
I skipped the additional pages tab and because I am choosing to turn off comments (at least while I’m in the building stage), I changed the post priority to all posts having the same priority.
I created a Sitemap page and swiped the code that I found in the http://www.swapsjuggling.com sitemap html since they put it there and it worked, so maybe if I put it on the nsofi.org site-map page it will have the same effect–it worked! That code (if it will let me write it here) is: <!– ddsitemapgen –>
I set my site map content to also include categories.
I skipped the excluded items, frequencies, and priorities tabs.
All done! Nice pretty sitemap! Word Press plugins are so very helpful. I never could have accomplished all this in straight html!
Thank you Arne Brachhold for Google XML Sitemaps!
Well, it worked on my nsofi site, but I still don’t see anything on my hydrophidian sitemap page, although I went through all the same steps. Hydrophidian is on the Hybrid 0.6 theme currently. I put it on the iNove theme for a minute just to see if it was a theme error, but the hydrophidian sitemap page was still empty. This may be because in that instance, Word Press is intalled differently, not in the root directory. The actual sitemap as read by Google via the link found under the sitemap location tab looks fine. I took the site-map page off of hydrophidian.com since I couldn’t get it to work.
I am finding that the proper way to write the term is either site map or sitemap, without a hyphen.
Alice Norris
