template-google-news.php

<?php
/*
Template Name: Google News Sitemap
*/
define('DONOTCACHEPAGE', true);
define('DONOTCACHEDB', true);
define('DONOTCACHCEOBJECT', true);
header("Content-type: text/xml");
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="https://www.racunalo.com/google-news-sitemap.xsl"?>';
echo '
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:news="http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-news/0.9">';
$have_posts = false;
$args_news_sitemap = array (
    'orderby' => 'date',
    'order' => 'DESC',
    'date_query' => array(
        'after' => date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-2 days'))
    ),
    'category__not_in' => array(1),
    'showposts' => 100,
    'post_status' => 'publish',
    'post_type'=>'post',
    'no_found_rows' => true,
    'cache_results' => false,
    'update_post_term_cache' => false,
    'update_post_meta_cache' => false
);
$query_news_sitemap = new WP_Query($args_news_sitemap);
if($query_news_sitemap->have_posts()):
    while($query_news_sitemap->have_posts()):
        $query_news_sitemap->the_post();
        $have_posts = true;
    echo '
    <url>';
        echo '
        <loc>';
        echo the_permalink();
        echo '</loc>';
        echo '
        <news:news>
            <news:publication>
                <news:name>Website.com</news:name>
                <news:language>en</news:language>
            </news:publication>
            <news:publication_date>';
            echo the_time('c');
            echo '</news:publication_date>
            <news:title>';
            echo the_title_attribute('echo=0');
            echo '</news:title>
            <news:keywords>News</news:keywords>
        </news:news>
    </url>
';
    endwhile;
endif;
if (!$have_posts):
    echo '<url>
        <loc>https://www.website.com/</loc>
    </url>';
endif; wp_reset_query();
echo '
</urlset>';
?>