Changes to sitemap plugin for FlatPress

Currently the sitemap plugin for FlatPress only pings google with changes.

To add additional ping targets two steps are required.

First generate a new class in the /class folder of the sitemap plugin to represent the ping target. For example to ping bing create a file called pingbingsitemaps.php and copy the following code into it...

<?php
function pingBingSitemaps( $url_xml )
{
   $status = 0;

   $bing = 'www.bing.com';
   if( $fp=@fsockopen($bing, 80) )
   {
      $req =  'GET /webmaster/ping.aspx?sitemap=' .
              urlencode( $url_xml ) . " HTTP/1.1\r\n" .
              "Host: $bing\r\n" .
              "User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; " .
              PHP_OS . ") PHP/" . PHP_VERSION . "\r\n" .
              "Connection: Close\r\n\r\n";
      fwrite( $fp, $req );
      while( !feof($fp) )
      {
         if( @preg_match('~^HTTP/\d\.\d (\d+)~i', fgets($fp, 128), $m) )
         {
            $status = intval( $m[1] );
            break;
         }
      }
      fclose( $fp );
   }
   return( $status );
}
?>

Second, update the plugin.sitemap.php file in the sitemap folder. Two changes are required. The first is to load the class just created.

...
	    // PHP google_sitemap Generator
	    require_once( "class/pingbingsitemaps.php" );
	    require_once( "class/pinggooglesitemaps.php" );
	    require_once( "class/google_sitemap.class.php" ); 
	    require_once("defaults.php");
...

Whilst the second is to call the new class.

...	
	// Once the sitemaps are ready, we ping Google...
	if( 200 === ($status=pingGoogleSitemaps($website_url.$sitemap_name)) ) $status = "OK";
	//   print( "Ping to Google Sitemaps successful.\r\n\r\nStatus code: $status." );
	else
	  // print( "Cannot ping/connect to Google Sitemaps.\r\n\r\nStatus code: $status."  );
	$status = "KO";
	
	if( 200 === ($status=pingBingSitemaps($website_url.$sitemap_name)) ) 
		if( "OK" === $status )	
			$status = "OK";
	else
		$status = "KO";
	
	// end the script.
...

Comments

1. Hi,
   
   Would you please kindly send me the original sitemap generator zip file for flattpress?
   
   I went to download it from the original developer site (http://www.vincentlecluse.com/flatpress-sitemap-generator/) but the site does not come up. Please help.

2. Hi Markus,
   
   A modified version of the sitemap generator can be found at www.gsys.biz/blog/availability-of-sitemap-plugin-for-flatpress/

3. I have pinged the bing for my sitemap, but there is no crawling of pages, even after so many tries

4. Hi Sawyer,
   
   The crawling schedule is down to the Bing search engine. Not something this plugin can influence!

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