Looking to Create a Custom XML News Stiemap for my Site

Technical Q&A
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I need to create a custom XML sitemap for my site that does a few things

  1. includes the following tags
<url>
<news:news>
<news:publication>
<news:name>
<news:language>
<news:publication_date>
<news:title>
  1. contains only blog posts that were published within 48 hours (meaning older stuff is not included)

Is there a plugin or service I can use to create this specialized XML sitemap?

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This is done either by:

  • Manually making the sitemap and submitting it to google search console
  • :warning: Personally never tested this one : add it as a file, then create a redirect to that CDN file , then submit to url to google search console ; this may take some time to fetch successfully ; :magnifying_glass_tilted_left: the “from” needs to not actually exist and can be relative, the “to” url for the CDN needs to be absolute(full url).
  • build a proxy app to serve an xml file from a proxy-app endpoint
  • searching and seeing if there is a relevant app on the app store.

And or also modify robots.text sitemap logic to point to urls, see Liquid objects: sitemap

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thanks paul based on your suggestions

  • Manually making the sitemap and submitting it to google search console
    that would be time consuming but maybe I can Automate with an AI agent?

  • :warning: Personally never tested this one : add it as a file, then create a redirect to that CDN file , then submit to url to google search console ; this may take some time to fetch successfully ; :magnifying_glass_tilted_left: the “from” needs to not actually exist and can be relative, the “to” url for the CDN needs to be absolute(full url).
    I could add an XML file to the root and submit but still have to create said file

  • build a proxy app to serve an xml file from a proxy-app endpoint
    I’ll look into this thanks

  • searching and seeing if there is a relevant app on the app store.
    there’s got to be some plugin out there? but maybe not

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Hey Cherry thanks so much…I am using a shopify based site.

https://www.trustedtechteam.com/sitemap_blogs_1.xml