dave

Couldn’t agree more with other users here. It is astonishing that despite seeing that your plugin breaks core functionality, you are saying that it is done with a user’s best intrest in mind ?

How is it in User’s best intrest if they install yoast & turn off the sitmap generation provided by Yoast ? This leaves them with no sitemap at all ?

So, Let me get this right.

Yoast disables a core feature of wordpress without a user consent ( that is if installing yoast for the first time ), then even on turning off the sitemap function it continues to disable the sitemap that is a core feature and there is no way to turn the core feature on ?

Would this be a correct assessment ? In my tests so far, that seems to be what is happening…

If this is the case, Yoast really needs to rething their strategy of how internal features should operate with yoast…

I agree with Andy here.

If I disable Yoast sitemap, the default sitemap should be renabled. I didn’t ask yoast to turn on the sitemap so the defaul sitemap should work. I shouldn’t have to spend hours scourging forums to find this functions to enable the sitemap.

add_filter( ‘wp_sitemaps_enabled’, ‘__return_true’ );

Also the docs doesn’t seem to point to this or their FAQ.

Disabling the Yoast sitemap does not necessarily activate the default sitemap that wordpress is supposed to generate.

Correct me if I am wrong but the option to reenable the default wordpress sitemap is entirely missing in Yoast.Also the instructions on renabling the default wordpress sitemap are missing in the FAQ you created.

So if you have a yoast plugin and you would NOT like to use their Yoast sitemap, there exists no option on the backend to enable the default wordpress sitemap. We will just wait for them to confirm the steps on renabling the wordpress default sitemap.

While I appreciate that Yoast has this function, I do not believe it to be in the interest of a common user to take over disabling the wordpress core function without giving the user a choice to make that selection in your wordpress.

Can you please shed some light on this.

• This reply was modified 4 years, 6 months ago by dave.

Hi rgzamith,

I am not sure if I got your question right but I will try and answer it as best as I can.

Lets say you want to organize your posts on home page ordered by title.

You will open your index.php and input the code as follow

<?php
 $postslist = get_posts('numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=title');
 foreach ($postslist as $post) :
    setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <div>
 <?php the_date(); ?>
 <br />
 <?php the_title(); ?>
 <?php the_excerpt(); ?>
 </div>
 <?php endforeach; ?>

If you wanted them to be organized based on individual categories you will simply put the category parameter in the get_posts

so something like

$postslist = get_posts(‘numberposts=10&order=ASC&orderby=title&category=three’);

Does that answer your question ?

You could do something with custom field like say set up an expiry time for the posts such that after a certain time period the post expires and disappears..

I havent done this before but I am assuming this will give you some pointers..

https://balticblogdesign.com/wordpress-code-expire-posts-to-archive-using-custom-fields

https://wordpress.exaspring.com/knowledge-base/how-to-set-expiration-date-for-a-post-using-custom-fields/