SleekView Charts for Yoast News SEO: news sitemap dashboards
Yoast News SEO extends Yoast with a Google News sitemap, genre fields, stock-ticker tags, and a per-post exclude flag, all stored in postmeta keys like _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-exclude and _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre. SleekView Charts reads those keys and renders the dashboard newsrooms actually want.
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News-sitemap data as a newsroom dashboard
Yoast News SEO is the Yoast Premium add-on that extends Yoast SEO with a Google News sitemap at /news-sitemap.xml, news-specific schema, a genre field, stock-ticker tags, and a per-post checkbox that excludes an article from the news sitemap. The data lives in postmeta keys like _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-exclude, _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre, and _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-stocktickers, alongside the standard wp_yoast_indexable row each article gets.
The default Yoast UI surfaces those fields inside the post editor and renders the sitemap publicly. There is no overview screen that answers the actual newsroom questions: how many articles published in the last 48 hours qualify for the news sitemap right now, which genre tags the desk is leaning on, whether stock-ticker coverage matches the topics the newsroom is meant to own.
SleekView Charts reads the newssitemap keys directly and joins them to wp_posts and wp_yoast_indexable. A Number card counts articles eligible for the news sitemap inside the rolling 48-hour Google News window. A Pie splits by genre. A Bar ranks stock tickers by coverage. An Area trends articles added to the news sitemap by hour or by day. The newsroom dashboard becomes a panel editors actually open.
Workflow
From news-sitemap postmeta to a newsroom view
Point SleekView at the news-sitemap keys
Switch the view to Charts
Add eligibility, genre, ticker, and cadence cards
Save and share with the desk
Sample dashboard
Charts you can build from Yoast News SEO
Articles eligible for the news sitemap
Count
News mix by genre
Count
group by _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-genre
Top stock tickers in coverage
Count
group by _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-stocktickers
News-sitemap publications per hour
Count
group by post_date
Comparison
Default Yoast News SEO admin vs SleekView Charts
Yoast News SEO admin
- News-sitemap fields live inside the per-post Yoast sidebar
- No native count of articles in the rolling 48-hour news window
- Genre mix invisible without manual sorting of recent posts
- Stock-ticker coverage requires CSV exports to compare
- No live cadence chart of news publishing across the desk
SleekView Charts
- Live KPI for articles eligible for the news sitemap right now
- Genre mix as a donut across the rolling news window
- Stock-ticker coverage ranked side by side as bars
- Time-series area for news publications per hour
- Saved Charts views shared with editors and section leads
Features
What SleekView Charts gives you for Yoast News SEO
Reads the newssitemap postmeta
No re-indexing, no second source of truth. SleekView queries wp_postmeta filtered to _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap- keys and joins back to wp_posts and wp_yoast_indexable for the cards.
Mixed cards on one canvas
Combine Number, Pie, Bar, and Area in a single view. The newsroom sees eligibility, mix, coverage, and cadence on the same dashboard inside WP Admin.
Role-aware visibility
Editors see only their section, the desk lead sees everything. The same Charts view filters per user without rebuilding the dashboard each time.
Audience
Who builds Yoast News SEO charts dashboards
News desk leads
Track the rolling 48-hour eligibility count, the genre mix, the ticker coverage, and the publishing cadence on one dashboard, all from inside WP Admin.
Section editors
Confirm their section's articles ship with the right genre tag and ticker coverage, instead of opening each post to check the Yoast sidebar.
Newsroom analytics
Compare publishing cadence and ticker coverage week over week, with the live dashboard replacing the morning spreadsheet.
The bigger picture
Why Yoast News SEO needs a Charts layer
Yoast News SEO already writes everything the newsroom needs to answer eligibility, mix, coverage, and cadence questions, but the admin only surfaces those fields one post at a time. The public news sitemap is for Google News, not for editors. SleekView Charts reads the same _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap- postmeta and the indexables table, then renders four cards inside WP Admin that answer the newsroom questions in one glance.
The data is correct because Yoast wrote it. Charts just gives the desk a dashboard to look at it. News leads stop refreshing the public sitemap or asking individual editors what they shipped this hour.
Questions
Common questions about SleekView Charts for Yoast News SEO
No. Charts is a read layer for reporting. SleekView's table view can edit postmeta directly; Charts only visualizes the _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap- keys and indexable rows Yoast News SEO has already written.
No. SleekView caches aggregate queries per card and re-runs them on a configurable interval, so charts stay fast even on news sites publishing dozens of articles per hour.
Yes. Yoast News SEO ships as a Premium add-on on top of Yoast SEO. SleekView reads whichever Yoast tables and postmeta keys exist, so Free Yoast indexables charts work too if News SEO is not installed.
Yes. Add one card per metric. Each card is configured independently, so a Number for the 48-hour count and an Area for hourly cadence can sit on the same dashboard.
The _yoast_wpseo_newssitemap-exclude key flags those rows. The Number card filters them out automatically, and a separate card can chart excluded counts if the desk wants to track them.
Yes. Apply a filter on a category, a custom taxonomy, or wp_posts.post_author and the cards re-aggregate for that scope only.
No. wp_posts stores post_date per row, so the Area card on news-sitemap publications per hour reads that column filtered to news-eligible rows.
Yes. Each Charts card has a CSV export so the newsroom aggregate can move to a spreadsheet for the daily editorial review.
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