Title: wp_sitemaps_posts_entry
Published: August 11, 2020
Last modified: May 20, 2026

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# apply_filters( ‘wp_sitemaps_posts_entry’, array $sitemap_entry, WP_Post $post, string $post_type )

## In this article

 * [Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#parameters)
 * [Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#source)
 * [Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#related)
 * [Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#changelog)
 * [User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)

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Filters the sitemap entry for an individual post.

## 󠀁[Parameters](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#parameters)󠁿

 `$sitemap_entry`array

Sitemap entry for the post.

`$post`[WP_Post](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_post/)

Post object.

`$post_type`string

Name of the post_type.

## 󠀁[Source](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#source)󠁿

    ```php
    $sitemap_entry = apply_filters( 'wp_sitemaps_posts_entry', $sitemap_entry, $post, $post_type );
    ```

[View all references](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/files/wp-includes/sitemaps/providers/class-wp-sitemaps-posts.php/)
[View on Trac](https://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/tags/7.0/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/providers/class-wp-sitemaps-posts.php#L164)
[View on GitHub](https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-develop/blob/7.0/src/wp-includes/sitemaps/providers/class-wp-sitemaps-posts.php#L164-L164)

## 󠀁[Related](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#related)󠁿

| Used by | Description | 
| [WP_Sitemaps_Posts::get_url_list()](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/classes/wp_sitemaps_posts/get_url_list/)`wp-includes/sitemaps/providers/class-wp-sitemaps-posts.php` |

Gets a URL list for a post type sitemap.

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## 󠀁[Changelog](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#changelog)󠁿

| Version | Description | 
| [5.5.0](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/since/5.5.0/) | Introduced. |

## 󠀁[User Contributed Notes](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#user-contributed-notes)󠁿

 1.   [Skip to note 3 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#comment-content-5158)
 2.    [Stonehenge Creations](https://profiles.wordpress.org/duisterdenhaag/)  [  5 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/#comment-5158)
 3.  [You must log in to vote on the helpfulness of this note](https://login.wordpress.org?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fdeveloper.wordpress.org%2Freference%2Fhooks%2Fwp_sitemaps_posts_entry%2F%23comment-5158)
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 4.  To add the last modifed date to your XML sitemap, Google wants the date in W3C
     format.
 5.      ```php
         add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_posts_entry', function( $entry, $post ) {
            $entry['lastmod'] = date( DATE_W3C, strtotime( $post->post_modified_gmt ) );
            return $entry;
         }, 10, 2 );
         ```
     
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 7.   [Skip to note 4 content](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/?output_format=md#comment-content-5955)
 8.    [Harit Panchal](https://profiles.wordpress.org/haritpanchal/)  [  4 years ago  ](https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/hooks/wp_sitemaps_posts_entry/#comment-5955)
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 10. To alter the post URLs in WP Multisites,
 11.     ```php
         add_filter( 'wp_sitemaps_posts_entry', 'wpdocs_sitemaps_posts_entry_callback', 10, 2 );
     
         function wpdocs_sitemaps_posts_entry_callback( $sitemap_entry, $post ) {
         	switch_to_blog( get_blog_id_from_url( $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] ) );
         	$sitemap_entry['loc'] = get_permalink( $post );
     
         	return $sitemap_entry; 
         }
         ```
     
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