XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 10th, 2020

A lot has happened since last week’s meeting for the XML Sitemaps feature project. Here’s a quick rundown of what we’ve discussed & did, as well as a brief agenda for today’s meeting.

Meeting Recap: March 3rd

For reference, please check out last week’s agenda post:

XML Sitemaps Meeting: March 3rd, 2020

The tl;dr of our discussion:

• Disabling sitemaps for private sites
  Mentioned the currently open PR and how it could be used to kill two birds with one stone by making that process filterable; thus making it easier for plugins to disable the sitemaps feature.
  Current status: needs tests
• Prefixing sitemap URLs
  The main PR for this change has been merged, a new issue has been opened for @kraftbj to handle 404 requests.
• SimpleXML dependency
  We went over potential alternatives to this extension, but ultimately settled on sticking with the status quo as initial feedback indicated a rather wide availability of SimpleXML. We then discussed how we should gracefully handle the unavailability of said extension and decided on using wp_die to output a nicely formatted error message in XML with HTTPHTTP HTTP is an acronym for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. HTTP is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web and this protocol defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. status 501 (“Not implemented”).
  Current status: merged!
• @joemcgill proposed looking into how to best transition the code base to something more in line with WordPress coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress.. Something that we can discuss in a future meeting, once the pluginPlugin A plugin is a piece of software containing a group of functions that can be added to a WordPress website. They can extend functionality or add new features to your WordPress websites. WordPress plugins are written in the PHP programming language and integrate seamlessly with WordPress. These can be free in the WordPress.org Plugin Directory https://wordpress.org/plugins/ or can be cost-based plugin from a third-party is more stable.
• Added @pbiron, @kraftbj, and @pfefferle as new contributors to the GitHubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/ repository. 🎉

Agenda: March 10th

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, March 10 at 16.00 CET.

PSA: Unfortunately I won’t be able to lead today’s meeting, but thankfully @tweetythierry stepped up to help out with this.

Today’s agenda is rather straightforward so far:

• Released version 0.2.0 of the plugin (changelog)
• Plugin compatibility with new URLURL A specific web address of a website or web page on the Internet, such as a website’s URL www.wordpress.org structure
  Yoast SEO’s rewrite rules seem to clash with ours
• SimpleXML dependency: blogblog (versus network, site) post on make/hosting (@pbiron)
• Currently open issues and pull requests
• Open floor

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