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Google News Sitemap Feed With Multisite Support

by timbrd · SEO

Dynamically generates a Google News Sitemap. Multisite compatible.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews
How scoring works →
41 Health · D
Maintenance 3/100
Rating quality 65/100
Support 70/100

41 health vs 66 average across 394 SEO plugins

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

  • Long abandoned. No update in 15+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
  • Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 3.1.4, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100
WP compatibility 1/100
Rating quality 49/100
Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 5651 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-41% vs prior 30d
Oct 22
Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

27

now · peak 86

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Google News Sitemap · #14463 XML News Sitemap · #17764 XML Sitemap & Google · #309 Dynamic XML Sitemaps · #1382

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “100+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate
100–200 ≈180

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,373 observations

Details

Version
3.3
Last updated
15.5y ago
Added
2011-01-25 · 15 yrs on WP
Requires WP
2.6
Tested up to
3.1.4
Requires PHP

Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

  1. 2025-09-21 200+ → 100+ down after 1 days in band
  2. 2025-09-20 100+ → 200+ up after 55 days in band
  3. 2025-07-27 200+ → 100+ down after 4 days in band
  4. 2025-07-23 100+ → 200+ up after 1 days in band
  5. 2025-07-22 200+ → 100+ down after 571 days in band
  6. 2023-12-29 300+ → 200+ down after 1 days in band
  7. 2023-12-28 200+ → 300+ up after 1 days in band
  8. 2023-12-27 300+ → 200+ down after 288 days in band

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Google News Sitemap Feed With Multisite Support: 100+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/google-news-sitemap-feed-with-multisite-support