Merge branch 'release/5.0.0'

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,3 +1,16 @@
+# v5.0.0
+## 10/05/2023
+
+1. [](#new)
+   * New capability to support "standalone" Sitemap News pages
+   * New XSL format for Sitemap News
+   * Added a toggle for XSL transform support to be disabled
+1. [](#improved)
+   * Improved blueprint and created sections
+   * Hide `x-default` alternate links when `include_default_lang` is enabled
+1. [](#bugfix)
+   * Fixed an issue with translated links were not being handled properly and not showing all alternate languages
+
 # v4.0.0
 ## 09/22/2023
 

README.md

@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ ignores:
   - /ignore-this-route
   - /ignore-children-of-this-route/.*
 include_news_tags: false
+standalone_sitemap_news: false
+sitemap_news_path: '/sitemap-news.xml'
 news_max_age_days: 2
 news_enabled_paths:
   - /blog
@@ -84,7 +86,17 @@ This is handled automatically based on your Grav multi-language System configura
 
 New in version 4.0 of the plugin is support for Google's [**News Sitemap Extension**](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/news-sitemap) that uses a specific tags under a `<news:news></news:news>` tag to provide Google News specific data.  When enabled, the news extensions will be enabled when an item is in one of the configured news paths (`/` by default, so all), and if the published date is not older than the configured `max age` (default of 2 per Googles recommendations).
 
-The output of the news tags is controlled by an overridable `sitemap-extensions/news.html.twig` template
+The output of the news tags is controlled by an overridable `sitemap-extensions/news.html.twig` template.
+
+The default behavior when **Include News Tags** is enabled, is to  include the news tags directly in the primary `sitemap.xml` file.  However, if you enabled the **Standalone News URLs** option, news tags will not be added to the primary `sitemap.xml`, rather, they will be available in standalone paths that contain only the pages in the designated news paths.
+
+For example, the default behavior is to enable `/blog` as a news path.  If this path exists, you have content in subfolders of this page, and that content is less than the defined "News Max Age" (2 days recommended by Google), then that sitemap-news-specific sitemap would be available via:
+
+```
+https://yoursite.com/blog/sitemap-news.xml
+```
+
+You can change the "News Path" to be something other than `sitemap-news.xml` if you wish.
 
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