I used your original concept and adapted the code slightly to produce a Wordpress plugin. Below is a link:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-news-sitemap-generator/

This can now be installed like a normal Wordpress plugin and automatically updates when you save, publish and delete a post.

I hope this will be useful for someone.

@McCain: use

AND post_date > SUBDATE(NOW(), 3)

within the script, that should filter out to 3 days back.

I have changed the code and now it comes out nice and clear. Two helps required.

In the output I do not see the line breaks between links - how to add that and where…

Also, tell me a way to limit the tag count as its picking up all the tags.

Regards,

Jack.

Find:

$rows = $wpdb->get_results(”SELECT ID, post_date_gmt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status=’publish’”);

Change that to:

$rows = $wpdb->get_results(”SELECT ID, post_date_gmt FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_status=’publish’ and post_type = ‘post’ order by post_date DESC limit 1000″);

Find:

echo “\t\n”;

Change to:

$tagger = ‘Base, keywords’; // change these keywords
echo “\t\n”;

Find:

echo “\t\tU2,U2 tours,news\n”; // change these keywords

Change to:

$tags = get_the_tags($row->ID);

if (!empty($tags)) {

foreach($tags as $tag) {

$tagger .= ‘,’ . $tag->name;

}

}

echo “\t\t$tagger\n”;

Thanks