Comparison · generated on request
Google News Widget vs Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News
Both plugins as this registry currently observes them. Figures come from the same daily snapshot, so they are directly comparable, which two separate wordpress.org pages, read minutes apart, are not.
| Google News Widget | Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News | |
|---|---|---|
| What it does | This plugin show a configurable widget for each post with news from Google News about post tags and post categories. Any article will be opened as new … | Generates a Google News compatible XML sitemap for WordPress sites to be submitted to Google Search Console for better news content indexing. |
| Active installs | 10+ | 100+ |
| Rating | 5.0★ (2) | 4.0★ (1) |
| Last release | 13 years ago | 3 days ago |
| Current owner | amoreno | Gunjan Jaswal |
| Added to directory | 09 Mar 2013 | 23 Oct 2025 |
| Tested up to | WP 3.5.2 | WP 7.1 |
| Requires PHP | false | 7.4 |
Install figures are rounded by WordPress.org to one significant digit, so a gap smaller than a band step is not a difference. Nothing here ranks the two plugins or recommends either, and no link on this page earns anything.
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Records: Google News Widget · Lightweight Newscast XML Sitemap For Google News