This Google News Sitemap Generator plugin creates a custom sitemap (site map) for your WordPress site that fully complies with Google News requirements.

Let me explain it simply 👇


📰 What does it do?

When Google News indexes news websites, it requires a special XML sitemap.
This plugin does exactly that:

  • Automatically collects your latest news posts (for example, from the last 7 days).

  • Generates an XML file in the proper Google News format (e.g., https://yourwebsite.com/google-news-sitemap.xml).

  • Once you submit this file to Google, your news articles will be crawled and indexed much faster on Google News.


⚙️ Key Features

  • Choose which categories to include in the sitemap.

  • Set how many days of recent news should be included (e.g., “last 7 days”).

  • Automatically adds your publication name and language code (e.g., tr-TR, en-US, es-ES).

  • The sitemap updates automatically whenever you publish a new post.

  • The system also performs hourly checks to keep the file up to date.


📁 Generated File

The plugin creates the following file in your site’s root directory:

/google-news-sitemap.xml

Each news post is listed like this:

<url>
<loc>https://yourwebsite.com/news/title</loc>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>Your News Site</news:name>
<news:language>us-US</news:language>
</news:publication>
<news:publication_date>2025-10-25T10:00:00+00:00</news:publication_date>
<news:title>News Title</news:title>
<news:keywords>Politics, Current Affairs</news:keywords>
</news:news>
</url>

🔍 In short:

This plugin makes your WordPress site fully compatible with Google News.
It automatically adds your latest articles to a valid sitemap, helping them get indexed faster and more efficiently.

Would you like me to prepare a version with a admin panel for easier management?

👉 Download the plugin here.