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YOAST Sitemap invalid date format

Patrick Moering

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Jan 23, 2015 - 8:49 pm

I'm using YOAST together with the sp sitemap plugin to generate sitemaps. While the sitemap itself is valid, the date on the main sitemap (sitemap_index.xml) which is generated by the sp plugin is not valid. I was able to fix this in the plugin code (sp-google-sitemap-components.php line 59):

Before:

$base = $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->using_index_permalinks() ? 'index.php/' : '';
 $date = spdb_table(SFPOSTS, '', 'post_date', 'post_date DESC', '1');
 $map.= '<sitemap>';
 $map.= '<loc>'.home_url($base.'forum-sitemap.xml').'</loc>';
 $map.= '<lastmod>'.htmlspecialchars($date).'</lastmod>';

After:

$base = $GLOBALS['wp_rewrite']->using_index_permalinks() ? 'index.php/' : '';
 $date = spdb_table(SFPOSTS, '', 'UNIX_TIMESTAMP(post_date)', 'post_date DESC', '1');
 $map.= '<sitemap>';
 $map.= '<loc>'.home_url($base.'forum-sitemap.xml').'</loc>';
 $map.= '<lastmod>'.htmlspecialchars(date('c', $date)).'</lastmod>';

Mr Papa

Simi Valley, CA

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Jan 23, 2015 - 9:20 pm

Interesting.. Is this one big huge site map vice multiple sub maps...

Will have to research why this one does not have a timestamp convert. Curious no reports but most use sub maps...

Thanks for the info....

Visit Cruise Talk Central and Mr Papa's World

Patrick Moering

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Jan 23, 2015 - 10:32 pm

Google webmaster tools reported the invalid timestamp but also was able to recognize the correct date. I can't tell you if the report has any disadvantages.

Mr Papa

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Jan 24, 2015 - 12:22 am

ticket open....

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Patrick Moering

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Jan 28, 2015 - 12:41 am

Thanks for the plugin update, however it did not fix the problem. Now it just prints an unformatted timestamp since this part is missing:

date('c', $date)

Yellow Swordfish

Glinton, England

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Jan 28, 2015 - 4:36 am

Oh dear - bad timing! Mr Papa is away for a couple of days.

I know he made some change last week. are you saying that you know what to do t get this how you mneed it? If so I would suggest you make the change and Mr Papa will get in touch as soon as he returns.