I’m trying (and failing) to get Poster (1 or 2) to pass meta data to Yourhead’s Site Map Plus for the purpose of having Poster items appear in on-site searches performed using Rapidsearch Live.
I’ve tried the “include blog” option in Sitemap Plus… Didn’t work (didn’t expect it to).
I’ve tried giving each poster item a custom meta tag and telling RSL to use said tag… Didn’t work.
I’ve even tried adding an HTML stack to the top of each poster item and adding in something like <meta name="postermetatest" content="postercontent">… Didn’t work.
Incidentally, when I added a custom meta tag to a Poster item, in the source, it seems to have been added as a class, not using what I think is the accepted method: meta name= content= etc.
Rapidsearch Live seems to only read one sitemap, so while I could point it to a particular instance of poster on a particular page, that would then be the only sitemap used to build the search database, so it wouldn’t work.
Really, from what I can tell, I need a way to get the Poster sitemaps added to Yourhead Sitemap Plus. Or, remove SMP and use the RW generated sitemap, and have Poster items added to it.
Do you know if any of that is possible? I’d really like to get my poster items added to my site search.
EDIT: Sitemap Plus does have the option to add blog posts, I’m assuming that’s the built-in RW blog thing, which seems to use the meta tag “blog-post” for posts. I did try to be clever and give Poster Items the custom tag of blog-post", but it didn’t work.
RSL will allow the use of a custom sitemap from which to build it’s search database. So, I think I can make my own sitemap, with poster items added manually along with the regular pages, point RSL to it and let it do it’s thing.
There might be an issue with page descriptions, but I’ll have to suck it and see.
Saying that though, having Poster sitemaps added to the main YH sitemap is a way better option, if it’s possible.
View the regular site map for the site, copy the content, paste into new file.
View the poster sitemaps for each instance of Poster.
Copy the links from said sitemap.
Paste these to the new custom sitemap.
Upload new custom sitemap to server (or add to resources).
Point RSL to it.
Update RSL database.
Boom. All Poster items now appear in local RSL powered search. For best results add a description to each Poster item in settings.
Now this is going to be a total balls-ache to maintain, especially for sites that are constantly having content added, like the site I’m testing on (caffeineinjection.com), but it really improves the onsite search when using Poster.
Now, just wait to see if you, @isaiah and @willwood can come up with a way to automate that process ;-)
I’m not entirely sure what you mean by that, but RSL can certainly read sitemaps. I’ve presently got it to read a sitemap I’ve made myself and it’s working perfectly. But maybe I’m misunderstanding what you mean?
Pro is no longer supported, and I understand has issues with S4.
Sitemaps have a limitation of 50,000 urls or 50 mb (I think), so if you have a site with more than that you can have a sitemap index to references several other standard sitemap files.
I was trying to use an index to reference the standard sitemap for a RW site, as well as the separate sitemap generated by TCMS blog posts, but it didn’t work.
Aha, yes, then you are still correct. It does seem like RSL can only red sitemaps, not indexes (lists) of sitemaps. at least, I think you are correct, I am still very much getting my head around it.
