Sitemap Generator

What it does: Automatically generates a sitemap.xml file for search engines.

File types: Generates sitemap.xml

Events:

• POST_RENDER (priority 100): Collects URLs
• POST_LOOP (priority 100): Generates XML file

How it works:

1. Listens as each page is rendered
2. Collects the URL and last modification date
3. Generates a standard XML sitemap at the end of the build process
4. Saves the file to output/sitemap.xml

Configuration

The Sitemap Generator uses the SITE_URL (or SITE_BASE_URL) from your .env file to generate absolute URLs.

# .env
SITE_URL="https://example.com"

Output Example

The generated sitemap.xml looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/index.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2023-11-25</lastmod>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/about.html</loc>
    <lastmod>2023-11-24</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>

Customizing Last Modified Date

By default, the generator uses the file's modification time. You can override this by adding a date field to your content's frontmatter:

---
title: "My Page"
date: "2023-12-01"
---

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