Google Xml Sitemaps in wordpress magento fishfig integration.

After installing Fishfig wordpress magento integration, you will see some warning sign that recommends using Google Xml Sitemaps. Then, you will go to wordpress, install and activate google xml sitemaps plugin . However, you can face some difficulties in creating sitemap.xml in default setting in case your original path and shown home url are not same.

Here is tips.

Aim: You want to make a sitemap having your magento home url (shown to other people), not original path.

1. In wordpress > Setting > General > Site Address (url) should be your magento home url

2. In wordpress Setting > Xml-Sitemap > Location of your sitemap file, select custom location
In "Complete URL to the sitemap file, including name, use your magento home url.

Now go to the upper part of google xml sitemaps plugin and create sitemap.

You can go to google webmaster tool and register sitemap for your magento store.

set CMS Block order in Magento sidebar

I inserted Social Badges and an google Adsense by using Static Block and local.xml.
It was located under the original right sidebar menu.
I did not wanted to show adsense and insert social badge above community poll of shop.isdream.net.

So, I had to change the order of Static Block.

First of all, I had to make a new static block named as right.social with its Block ID right_social.

Then, to change the order of my social static block, I use "before" or "after" in positioning property in code.

* before="-"    Places the block at the top of the sidebar, before other blocks.
*  after="-"       Places the block at the bottom of the sidebar, after other blocks.

If you want to place your block before or after a specified block, just write a specified block name instead of hyphen (-)

So, code to place a static block is as follows:

<block type="cms/block" before="-" name="right.social">
<block type="cms/block" before="some-other-block" name="right.social">
<block type="cms/block" after="-" name="right.social">
<block type="cms/block" after="some-other-block" name="right.social">

I used the first one in my local.xml and I get my social badge at top of right sidebar in Magento store.