TLDR: When the deployment is triggered by static HTML output plugin, ping URL to search engine
My WordPress exists at my computer http://localhost (uses Rankmath, static html output) for daily updating blog at https://www.example.com
I am aware that when we publish post or update, Rankmath ping to Google.
Is there any function that can help in Pinging production Sitemap URL of https://www.example.com from the localhost server after successful deployment from ‘static HTML output plugin’ plugin.
Guess, we can do with JS as well with something like this
If /wp-admin/admin.php?page=statichtmloutput DOM has text, 'Process completed'
make a GET request http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=' . $deployment_detected_sitemap_url
Haha, bit dodgy how they send user to 5-star filtered page when asking them for reviews!
Thanks for putting on GitHub Issues.
I’ll think on how to address it. We can either try to modify the calls that each SEO plugin makes (more work, less reliable, as they don’t share same concept of “deploy” as our plugins) or provide solutions based on our existing post-deployment hooks (preferred, more likely).
We have already in one of the plugins, an option in UI to set a post-deployment webhook URL and choose the method GET, or POST, for which this direction from Google would work:
Use the ping tool. Send a GET request in your browser or the command line to this address, specifying the full URL of the sitemap. Be sure that the sitemap file is accessible: http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=<full_URL_of_sitemap> Example: http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://example.com/sitemap.xml
For a plugin without that option, we can do a little custom script in functions.php or as an extra plugin, which will call that URL. If using via WP-CLI in a script, that can be a simple curl or wget request.
I’ll link back here from the GH Issue and update when there’s a more concrete solution, but you can try out some of the ideas above for now.
with something like this