XML Sitemaps Meeting: April 14th, 2020

Meeting Recap: April 7th

For reference, check out the previous blogblog (versus network, site) post from April 7th:

What we’ve discussed last week:

  • 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 Conflicts (#146)
    We reached the conclusion that such conflicts are actually a non-issue. Plugins are expected to override the default sitemap functionality. For consistency reasons, we keep the wp- prefix.
  • Last modified date (#145)
    There is one open question on the PR to keep lastmod for object types that support it out of the box (i.e. posts).
    Current status: needs reviews.
  • Rewrite Rules (#147)
    A change was proposed to improve the way rewrite rules are registered for sitemaps. This would avoid having to flush rewrite rules when custom providers are added.
    Current status: needs contributors / reviews.
  • Roadmap
    WordPress 5.5 is ought to be released in August. We settled on the following roadmap for sitemaps:
    • Fix remaining big issues – April
    • Refactor code to be closer to WP coreCore Core is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. standards, add safeguards so nothing breaks after merge – April
    • Publish Merge proposal – May
  • Extensibility
    It was suggested to add a filterFilter Filters are one of the two types of Hooks https://codex.wordpress.org/Plugin_API/Hooks. They provide a way for functions to modify data of other functions. They are the counterpart to Actions. Unlike Actions, filters are meant to work in an isolated manner, and should never have side effects such as affecting global variables and output. for the <urlset> element’s attributes so that plugins could easily add namespaced elements to a sitemap (e.g. for image sitemaps).

Agenda: April 14th

The next meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 14th at 16.00 CET.

Items on the agenda so far:

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