I have to be straight and say that we have no plans at the moment to support an alternative sitemaps plugin. Although if someone cares to take on the legwork to note the differences in the sitemaps api then it would be easier to make an assessment on the sort of time we would need to devote to it.

and worth mentioning that Arne’s plugin has been updated twice in the last couple months including once yesterday… so still quite active…

if you take a look at our google xml sitemap plugin for sp, you will see how it uses a hook provided by the xml sitemap plugin to do its thing… if the plugin you refer to provides a similar api for other plugins to utilize, it would be real simple to change…

Mr Papa said
and worth mentioning that Arne’s plugin has been updated twice in the last couple months including once yesterday… so still quite active…

I wasn’t aware that it had finally be updated recently. But looking at the developer’s website,** the updates appear to be minor bug-fix and maintenance releases. Nothing significant for well over a year. His plugin still lacks several of the key features of Khang’s. His current beta might bring his plugin on par with Khang’s but no telling from his website when it might be released: the release date is long past (5-5-2012), so it’s either a typo or the date hasn’t been updated in a while and those features have been in perpetual beta for quite a while. The changelog indicates he’s been working on multisite support for over 2 years. Not encouraging. Maybe I’ll switch back if he ever finishes any of the major upgrades to his plugin.

**Pet peeve: Why can’t he put his changelog on the plugin page on WordPress? It’s annoying when I have to leave my WordPress installation or the WordPress plugin directory to find out what was changed in the latest update before I update my plugins or decide to install a new one.

if you take a look at our google xml sitemap plugin for sp, you will see how it uses a hook provided by the xml sitemap plugin to do its thing… if the plugin you refer to provides a similar api for other plugins to utilize, it would be real simple to change…

… I wouldn’t know where to look. You guys are in a better position to figure that out than I am. I’m not a programmer. You seem to keep assuming that your customers are. All I can do is tinker through painstaking Google searches ad trial and error.

I found this on Khang’s website. Dunno if it helps.

Hook References

bwp_gxs_query_var_non_perma – Used to change the default bwpsitemap query var when pretty permalink is not set. (filter)

bwp_gxs_xslt – Used to define the custom XSLT style sheet’s URL (filter)

bwp_gxs_module_dir – Used to define the custom module folder (filter)

bwp_gxs_module_mapping – Used to map a module to another module, for example you can map post_format to post_tag. This will be explained in more details later. (filter)

bwp_gxs_rewrite_rules – Used to define your own rewrite rules. This should be used when you add a custom sitemapindex. Example above. (filter)

bwp_gxs_post_where – Allows you to filter the ‘where’ part in post modules’ queries. (filter, additional variable: $post_type – the currently requested post_type)

bwp_gxs_term_exclude – Allows you to exclude certain terms for a specific taxonomy. (filter, additional variable: $taxonomy – the currently requested taxonomy)

bwp_gxs_freq – Allows you to use your own algorithm to calculate change frequency. (filter, additional variable: $post object)

bwp_gxs_priority_score – Allows you to use your own algorithm to calculate priority. (filter, additional variables: $post object, $freq – calculated change frequency)

bwp_gxs_news_name – Allows you to set a custom sitename for your news sitemap without having to change the sitename setting inside WordPress (filter).

bwp_gxs_news_keyword_map – Allows you to map your categories in your language to Google News’s suggested categories in English (filter).

bwp_gxs_modules_built – Fire after all default modules are defined. Use this to add or remove modules from the default sitemapindex. (action)

Steve knows the sitemap plugin so I am sure he will take a look at the list – thanks

none of those will work…  the plugin will have to support another plugin adding in virtual pages… as far as wp and most plugins are concerned, there is only one forum page… and that is right… we use url rewrite black magic to make all the forum content appear on a single page…

so the plugin needs some sort of hook or function for us to call to add in specific urls or pages…

the last one is not defined well so it might have possibility but would need more info on it…