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Update docs: Yoast SEO News sitemap

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Difficulty
1/5
Estimated time
Under an hour
Newbie friendliness
55/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Stale
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with the linked functional specification's News sitemaps section and compare its documented default URL with the behavior described for a News CPT. Update the documentation to show both sitemap URLs and their respective cases, then review the rendered section to confirm the distinction is clear.

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The default Yoast SEO News sitemap is at /news-sitemap.xml/. But when there's a CPT with the name News, the default Yoast SEO News sitemap becomes /yoast-news-sitemap.xml/ while the CPT sitemap becomes /news-sitemap.xml/. This should reflect in the documentation at https://developer.yoast.com/features/xml-sitemaps/functional-specification/#news-sitemaps

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