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PS: if u want I can push you the 2 files changed so you can have google news image support already in the coming release (1.2.4 I guess – if yes can u say planned for when?)

I got the customization: the support for image thumbnails has been added.

In file includes/modules/post_google_news.php the following line is added:

$data['news_image'] = wp_get_attachment_url(get_post_thumbnail_id($post->ID, 'thumbnail'));

and in file class-bwp-simple-gxs.php various changes (to long to list here – but in any case changes to support google news image preview).

If i move to latest version of this pluin (1.2.3) I will lost this functionality?

OK got it…

https://github.com/OddOneOut/Better-WordPress-Google-XML-Sitemaps/tree/4c503343ca7651e3952caa843341b9233db7cd1e

but with the browser not able to download the full .zip file containig the 1.2.1 version…. (for various reasons I cannot run a git command from command line).

it’s strange. In my case seems working fine. Is important to understand that if using a cache like W3 total cache , may be that the page showing the counting is not updated to the ‘last minute’.

In my case for example, in http://best5.it all the views are counted, but in the home page in the right sidebar, top 5 articles are typically updated daily (because ever day 1-2 articles are updated and the cache is refreshed).

Do you have a specific context where the AJAX calls are not working?

Angelo

Hi Ajay,

are you planning to include in the new release (1.9.5) the ‘AJAX’ suggestion I put at the beginning of this thread?

Hi guys,

gearhungry what you see i normal. When you do caching of a page, on the first request of your home page for example (url=/) the system create a static .html file in the filesystem. All the other coming requests will be served (very quickly) using this static .html file.

it means that, using my change the counter is correctly updated, BUT the users are, by default, visualizing the ‘old’ generated page.

You can approach this problem in different ways:
a) Considering that the cache is, by default, re-created every time you publish a nerw article. In my example I publsh, in average, 2 articles/day so for me is enough.

b) You can set the cache expiration policy (only for the page that contains the top 10 data) more often: like each hour.

c) You can ‘wrap’ the portion of the page containing the top 10 data with special tags (If I rememeber correctly are <!– mfunc –> and <!– /mfunc –>: this portion will be recreated at each request.
Note that the approach (c) will impact the performance.

In my opinion the best approach is (a) in a lot of cases.
If you need more ‘fresh’ data, you can go for option (b) setting a expiration policy properly (but I do not recommend to be less than 15min).

Hope this help
Angelo

PS: my site is http://best5.it