Yandex News Feed is a WordPress plugin that automatically generates an RSS feed for the Yandex "Latest and most important news" program. The plugin creates a valid RSS 2.0 feed with the necessary Yandex extensions and guarantees compliance with all of the search engine's requirements.
Key Features
- Automatic Generation: RSS feed created at
/feed/yandex-news
- Full Compliance: Meets all Yandex requirements for news feeds
- Easy Setup: Simple configuration interface in the WordPress admin panel
- Flexible Content: Select specific categories and tags to include
- Customization: Settings for post limits, language, and genre
- Content Cleaning: Automatic removal of ads and scripts
- Validation: Built-in feed validation and compliance checking
- Media Support: Includes images and media content via
media:group
- Exclusions: Option to exclude specific posts manually
- Performance: Caching enabled for optimization
Yandex Requirements
The plugin automatically ensures compliance with the following requirements:
- RSS 2.0 format with Yandex extensions
- Mandatory fields: title, link, pubDate, yandex:full-text
- Feed size no larger than 10 MB
- UTF-8 encoding
- No advertising in the content
- Accessible without authorization
Integration with Yandex Webmaster
- Log in to Yandex Webmaster.
- Go to Publisher Center → Latest and most important news.
- Click Upload feed and paste your feed URL.
- Wait for the feed validation (this may take several days).
Supported Languages
- Russian (ru)
- English (en)
- Turkish (tr)
Compatibility
The plugin is compatible with:
- WordPress 5.0+
- PHP 7.4+
- Popular caching plugins
- Multilingual sites
- Any WordPress theme