Premium Feature/Image Sitemap/Photo Gallery Images

Hello @joe-g

Premium Version allows to include Featured Images and WooCommerce Product gallery. But both Free and Pro versions collect images from Page/Post Content.

If your images are coming from WooCommerce Gallery, you can purchase Pro Version in order to include those images in your Image Sitemap. On the other hand, if you are using another plugin for Gallery, we can provide you a simple code with a filter to get images from that plugin.

Please let us know if you need a filter for third party plugin. I also found some wc-gallery- CSS classes in your gallery, if those images are coming from WooCommerce Product Gallery, please check our Pro Version features.

Best regards

Thank you for the offer for the Code & Filter. I’m using the BoldGrid plugin:

Boldgrid Gallery

How would I use the code with a filter. Is it used in one of the sitemap options.

Not that it matters, but I was a long time user of Auctollo XML Sitemaps. I don’t believe an image sitemap was offered so having an image sitemap takes a bit of further education in terms of SEO with things like alt tags.

If I use the code, I would need to go over 24 years(24 photo gallery pages) to be sure the alt tags are correct.

Here we are providing a simple filter which adds custom links to your Image Sitemap, and it will not change anything in your website. This code is only for Sitemap data collecting.

However, we’ve started Free Trial of Bold-grid Gallery and Image Sitemap is generating will all gallery Images. Please check here – https://demo2.cloudwp.dev/trial-223y12x5/image-sitemap.xml. Seems it doesn’t require extra code. Please provide our Trial link and your Image Sitemap link to Boldgrid developers in order to clarify the issue. Because, if Gallery images are saving on Page Content, they will be automatically added to Sitemap. Also, please make sure that you have cleared a Sitemap Cache under Settings > XML Sitemaps > Advanced tab.

Please let us know about the progress.

Best regards

I do see you appear to have 8 photos in the sitemap which must be associated with the gallery you set up.

My set up I think is a bit different.

It’s a bit confusing because my page called Photo Gallery is not the page I made using the BoldGrid plugin Gallery. My page called Photo Gallery was made using the BoldGrid plugin Post and Page Builder. I started with a blank page and added a Gallery style Block. All the images on my page called Photo Gallery are links to the pages I made using the BoldGrid Plugin Gallery. There are 24 pages made with the Gallery plugin.

Have I explained the set up properly and is it similar to the way you set up your trial site or different.

I think I’ve also created the page About Us using BoldGrid Page Builder. Please check this screenshot and let me know if you added the gallery through another way:

The majority of my image gallery pages were originally created using the method in this link.

For example, pages like /2023-upholstery-photos

There are 23 other pages just like /2023-upholstery-photos

To save time, some of my image gallery pages were created using this method

As you recommended, I’ve also contacted BoldGrid Support

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Joe G.

I contacted BoldGrid support about the issue and found out a few things. First I’ll end the topic because I found out from BoldGrid support the Gallery plugin will no longer be supported. So at this point, there is no need to pursue adding the images from the gallery pages to the sitemap as I will most likely be looking for a new gallery plugin.

BoldGrid support did tell me however, what they suspect the issue is. Below is from BoldGrid:

As a preface, the BoldGrid Gallery Plugin is no longer being updated or supported by our development team. Initially I suspected that this may be related, an issue with the plugin that was not adding the images to the sitemap, but I actually set up a  BoldGrid gallery test with the same Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google plugin and all of the images I used were successfully showing up in the image sitemap. It doesn’t seem to be an issue with the gallery plugin but keep in mind that BoldGrid Gallery is no longer being updated going forward.

But when trying to see why mine was working and yours was not I did actually spot that your images are all being served from a CDN. because of the way BoldGrid Gallery adds the images it the sitemap generator may not be picking up on the gallery images because of how the galleries are embedded. Meaning the CDN URL is all it’s picking up on. What you could try is adding the CDN URL to the Additional URLs section of the XML Sitemap plugin settings but I’m not sure if this will let you add them as a wildcard or if you would need to add them individually, it might be good to see if you can clarify that with the plugin developer. 

You’re right, it looks like Sitemap doesn’t index media files from an external URL. In this case from the CDN URL. We will look into this issue and try to find a solution as soon as possible. There may be additional settings added to our plugin, such as a CDN URL. I’ll let you know in this topic very soon.

Thanks for clarifying the issue.

Best regards

Great News ??

We’ve found the problem which came from URLs with query strings and have already released a fix in version 1.7.9. Please update your plugin and clear Sitemap cache one more time, then everything should work correctly in your Image Sitemap.

PS: There were no issues with External URLs or CDN URLs. ??

Best regards

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by WP Grim.

Thank you so much, the update indeed corrected the issue of serving the images from my galleries!!

Am I correct in saying it appears from the image-sitemap that my image URLs, in the image-sitemap, are coming from the server and not the EWWW Image Optimization plugin CDN.

Edit:

Actually it looks like images are being served from both my web host servers and The EWWW CDN. Does it need to be that way or could the images in the sitemap be limited to either my server or the CDN.

Hope that makes sense. I’m just asking the question, I don’t really know.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Joe G.
• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Joe G.

Yes, your images are coming from both CDN and site domain. It doesn’t matter to generating the Sitemap, but Search Engines may recognize them differently. For example, Google might index the CDN URLs, but it often considers the canonical URL to be the original URL on your domain. Therefore, please monitor Google Search Console for any issues related to image indexing.

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