Google Sitemap Generator not notifying Google and Yahoo

Hi,

Yahoo has some problems with their ping service in the last time, it’s not a problem with the plugin.

Best regards,

Arne

hi i’ve got different problem

Error loading stylesheet: A network error occured loading an XSLT stylesheet:https://scarty.com/x213y/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.xsl

OK yahoo is still failing, so yeah seems yahoo has changed something

I get the same…
# There was a problem while notifying Google.
# There was a problem while notifying YAHOO
# There was a problem while notifying Ask.com

“allow_url_fopen” is on
“curl” is installed
Using wp 2.3.1 and latest xml sitemap plugin version

Also a secondary question:
Do we need to create both the xml and gzip versions of the sitemap?

@war59312: The documentation about the service is still the same, even their own sample doesnt work:

https://developer.yahoo.com/search/siteexplorer/V1/ping.html

In this post, I described a workaround that seems to work for me.

OK, XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.0.2 is out and yahoo is now working fine. ??

Hello:

The solution that karels74 says he has must be with an earlier version of the sitemap generator because my version, 3.0.1 doesn’t have the line of code karels74 refers to in his solution.

The cloest thing i can find to his code is on line 2418:
$sPingUrl=”https://search.yahooapis.com/SiteExplorerService/V1/updateNotification?appid=” . $this->GetOption(“sm_b_yahookey”) . “&url=” . urlencode($pingUrl);
I have tried to use the code edit that was suggested in karels74 edit, and i get an error:
public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/sitemap.php on line 2418.

any suggestions?
I also see that sonme has said version 3.02 is out but i can’t seem to find a download link for it.

Thx in advance for the help
S

Ok it seems that there is a version 3.0.2 of Arne’s plugin…
I went to his site to grap a new copy as i accidentally deleted my local copy, and after i uploaded and activated it i saw the yahoo API key box!! after pasting my api code in and doing a manual update yahoo is now being notified!!!!

Thank you Arne….

You may want to edit your blog d/l link to reflect the new version!

S

Hello again … we need to clarify this as it is really messy! …
This plugin is not consistent once it comes to the versioning … there are 2-3 places with differnt version info:
– Arne’s web pages
– the readme.txt file
– the sitemap.php file (this is then visible in the admin pages)
Now how does it fit to our case
– on Arne’s web pages there is just 3.0.1 as the latest version available
– once you download the package inside there is actually 3.0.1 mentioned in the readme.txt but in sitemap.php it is 3.0.2 (you can see this version number once you install in the admin section of your WP)

My post refers to a version number that is visible in the admin pages and is 3.0.1 … not the latest version that is available

ad StackError – your version must have been 3.0.2 and you are right the code is different in this new version (but referred as 3.0.1 on Arne’s pages) and as reported by other users it works without a need to tweak it …

I will update my post with this info …

Hi all,

sorry for the confusion! I’ve released a new version of the plugin which uses the other YAHOO ping API (which requires an API key). It was in the SVN for some days, but I didn’t have the time to completly test it out until now.

Just update to the new version (3.0.2) and enter your Yahoo API key at the admin page and the YAHOO ping should work again!

Best regards,

Arne

Just to add, I think there is an incompatibility with the Smart-Update-Pinger plugin.

I just installed the latest version 3.0.2, but it will generate an error message when I save or publish posts.

Smart-Update-Pinger is a very useful plugin that will not ping the RSS directories when editing posts , and this helps to prevent your blog from getting banned by the RSS directories.

Here’s to hoping the author can fix the Google Sitemap Generator plugin to be compatible with Smart-Update-Pinger.

FYI, the Smart-Update-Pinger plugin still runs on WP 2.3, contrary to what is written on some pages.

All –

I am running WP 2.3 and XML Sitemap Generator for WordPress 3.0.2.1. I was having an issue wherein Yahoo was not being successfully notified (‘invalid appid’ error was being returned by Yahoo). I tried removing the ‘.’ in front of my Yahoo appid, and that did the trick.

Anyway, hopefully that helps if anyone else is having the same issue! For the record, I am just using a generic Yahoo application ID…