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    <h1>Sitemap</h1>
  


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      <p>If you want to have a <code>sitemap.xml</code> file for search engines this is something
you can very easily create yourself.  All you need is a contents file
and a custom template.</p>
<h2 id="contents-file">Contents File</h2><p>First we need to create a contents file.  Since <code>sitemap.xml</code> always goes
into the same location we create a folder called <code>sitemap.xml</code> inside our
<code>content</code> folder and add a <code>contents.lr</code> file with the following data:</p>
<pre><code>_template: sitemap.xml
---
_model: none
</code></pre>
<p>This instructs Lektor to use the template <code>sitemap.xml</code> for this page.  We
also give it the empty <code>none</code> model for good measure.</p>
<div class="admonition admonition-tip"><p>Starting with Lektor 2.0 you can also add <code>_discoverable: no</code> as a field
into the file to hide it from <code>.children</code>.  This is useful for such special
pages which should be excluded from navigation or automatic link generation.</p></div><h2 id="template-file">Template File</h2><p>The template loaded will be <code>templates/sitemap.xml</code>.  In this file we just
iterate over all pages of the site recursively.  This also automatically
skips hidden pages so those will not be generated out.</p>
<div class="hll"><pre><span></span><span class="cp">&lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;urlset</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="na">xmlns=</span><span class="s">&quot;http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&quot;</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="cp">{%</span>- <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">page</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="nv">site.root</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">page</span> <span class="o">!=</span> <span class="nv">this</span> <span class="k">recursive</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="nt">&lt;url&gt;&lt;loc&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">page</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="nf">url</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nv">external</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="kp">true</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="nt">&lt;/loc&gt;&lt;/url&gt;</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="cp">{{</span><span class="o">-</span> <span class="nb">loop</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nv">page.children</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="nf">sort</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nv">attribute</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;path&#39;</span><span class="o">))</span> <span class="cp">}}</span>
<span class="w">  </span><span class="cp">{%</span>- <span class="k">endfor</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/urlset&gt;</span>
</pre></div>
<p>Sorting the page using <code>|sort(attribute='path')</code> is not mandatory, but can be
useful if you prefer to have stable builds, for instance if you use <code>git</code> to
version the generated page and would like a clean history or a meaningful diff
from the last build.</p>
<p>Note that because sitemaps need to have external URLs (with scheme and
everything) you will need to configure the <code>url</code> of the site before the
template starts working.  For more information see <a href="../../project/file/#project" class="ref">Project File</a></p>
<h2 id="human-readable-sitemap">Human Readable Sitemap</h2><p>But what if you want a beautiful sitemap as a tree for human reading?  This is
not any harder.  Instead of making a <code>sitemap.xml/contents.lr</code> file just
create a <code>sitemap/contents.lr</code> file instead and use a template like
<code>sitemap.html</code>.  Then use something like this:</p>
<div class="hll"><pre><span></span><span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">extends</span> <span class="s2">&quot;layout.html&quot;</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">block</span> <span class="nv">title</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>Sitemap<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endblock</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">block</span> <span class="nv">body</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">ul</span> <span class="na">class</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;sitemap&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">for</span> <span class="nv">page</span> <span class="k">in</span> <span class="o">[</span><span class="nv">site.root</span><span class="o">]</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">page.record_label</span> <span class="k">recursive</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
  <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">&gt;&lt;</span><span class="nt">a</span> <span class="na">href</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">page</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="nf">url</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="s">&quot;</span><span class="p">&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nv">page.record_label</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">a</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">if</span> <span class="nv">page.children</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
      <span class="p">&lt;</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">&gt;</span><span class="cp">{{</span> <span class="nb">loop</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nv">page.children</span><span class="o">|</span><span class="nf">sort</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="nv">attribute</span><span class="o">=</span><span class="s1">&#39;path&#39;</span><span class="o">))</span> <span class="cp">}}</span><span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
    <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endif</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
  <span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">li</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
  <span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endfor</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
<span class="p">&lt;/</span><span class="nt">ul</span><span class="p">&gt;</span>
<span class="cp">{%</span> <span class="k">endblock</span> <span class="cp">%}</span>
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