Split large xml sitemaps PHP script
Many people will be familiar with the popular Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress I use it on all of my wordpress installs and have been very happy with it. Until about a month ago when I was installing it over at accommodationsphere.com and it created a sitemap for me nicely gzipped and weighing in at only 1-2mbs but a whopping 92,000 urls.
Does google accept sitemaps with that many files? Not unless they’re split across multiple sitemaps which contain less than 50,000 urls each and utilize a sitemap index file.
So I organized a nice little php script that I’ve got loaded in a cron job that runs to split that large sitemap.xml.gz file into smaller .xml.gz files and creates an index file.
It’s a little crude but I’m hoping to get this included as a feature in the above mentioned plugin rather than expanding on this little scripts abilities outright.
You’re free to use it, modify it and do what ever, but be nice; if you develop a bit of extra features or usability for it why not send me the code for inclusion in the next version.
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October 15th, 2008
This is a great concept, and I have used it on one of my sites now - successfully. It would be great if this was made into an easier process though, like a plugin that automatically split the sitemap upon creation when a new post is made. Has anyone done this or expanded upon your original script?