Is there a way to "limit" sitemap?

[blackhatterinpink]

I'm having a site that automatically populates content.
It's currently a day old and is already has around
thousands of pages and growing.

I can't disclose the nature of the site, but it's not a mere
content site or blog or something similar. And the
populated data are safe and unique.

All I want to know is if there's a way for me to limit
what I submit to Google Webmasters through the
sitemap. I'm planning to add content to Webmasters
gradually for indexing and perhaps index all the other
deeper pages after a few months.

[emptee_m]

Hey,

I did something similar to this a while back - There was some Sitemap plugin that allowed you to omit a page/post from the sitemap (I think it was Yoast, might have something else.. whatever it was, it was popular!).

Anyway - find the plugin, then look at the meta data for a post/page with it enabled and disabled for the sitemap. There should be some key created.. after you find what it does, just bulk create the meta data for the rest of your pages :)

After that.. I'm not sure what your drip feeding plan is, you could do something like DELETE from wp_meta WHERE post_id < <some arbitrary number> on a daily basis, increasing the number by 100 or so each day/week/whatever..

Keep in mind that the sitemap isn't the only place Google can find pages too - they still do crawl around :)

Let me know if you need a hand!