Google News Sitemap Generator for Joomla
Written on Jul 16, 2008 // Net, Open Source.
After looking in the whole web (ok, not in the whole web but a major part of it for sure) a Sitemap Generator for Google News (not the search engine) compatible with the CMS i’m currently using, i convinced myself to realize it with my fingers, so that it could be integrated with my Joomla Installation and that it could import url from Open Sef plugin.
Those who know Google News know how that site is a great resource of traffic directed to our websites. However it’s very important for a good positioning (obviously after being accepted on ‘the clan’) creating a sitemap which is conform to the rules that Google dictate at this page.
After realizing that (few code lines, a connection not so much more), I packed it, wrote the README, created a configuration file and made it available for Download. Everything is released under GPL v3 Licence.
Go to Google News Sitemap Generator
Sorry but I still need to invent something to put here. 
Arjun
Jul 16, 2008, 10:19 amHi Andrea,
Have been hunting for the same myself, hit upon your site on my search.
However I use sh404SEF (and it works really well) on my site and not OpenSEF.
Is there any work around for this in the package you’ve built ?
Arjun
Andrea Olivato
Jul 16, 2008, 10:30 amHello Arjun,
you’re the second person who ask me for a fork working with sh404SEF and I already realized that.
You can download it from here:
http://blog.andreaolivato.net/downloadsgooglenews_sitemap_1.5.x_mod_sh404.zip
I didn’t test this version as I don’t own the sh404 plugin however the other person who asked me for this fork, tried this and told me it works!
Let me know if it works for you too!