Sitemap

[danywebxx]

Hello team,

I'm happily using your project for my blog https://danyweb.it But I don't understand how sitemap.xml is generated.

Can someone explain this to a dumbass like me?

[leessang01]

Hi,
AFAIK, jekyll-sitemap is used to generate sitemap.xml by default. You can see this sentence on their readme.

Jekyll plugin to silently generate a sitemaps.org compliant sitemap for your Jekyll site

However, I think sitemap.xml generated by jekyll-sitemap has a little unnecessary URLs such as tags, archives, about, etc. So you can make your own sitemap.xml generated by liquid. You just put sitemap.xml file (see below) on your root directory and it will work.

Here is the content of sitemap.xml I used. You can see my sitemap generated by this code.
I hope you find my answer useful.

---
layout: null
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9 http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd" xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  {% for post in site.posts %}
    <url>
      <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}</loc>
      {% if post.lastmod == null %}
        <lastmod>{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}</lastmod>
      {% else %}
        <lastmod>{{ post.lastmod | date_to_xmlschema }}</lastmod>
      {% endif %}

      {% if post.sitemap.changefreq == null %}
        <changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
      {% else %}
        <changefreq>{{ post.sitemap.changefreq }}</changefreq>
      {% endif %}

      {% if post.sitemap.priority == null %}
        <priority>0.5</priority>
      {% else %}
        <priority>{{ post.sitemap.priority }}</priority>
      {% endif %}
    </url>
  {% endfor %}
</urlset>

[MhmRhm]

Hello guys. I have used this theme at https://mhmrhm.github.io/tutorials/ but Google Search Console says it cannot find my sitemap.xml. Can you help?

[SoumyaK4]

@danywebxx I just tested with different sites I have, and its reading if no .xml in sitemap.

but in your case I see none works, maybe try copying your sitemap file's content and manually create a sitemap.xml at the root(same place where _config.yml lives) of your repo

Hey @kungfux sorry for the mention,
as you see with the screenshot above, google isn't crawling the .xml ones from chirpy. but if I open the link it shows the sitemap normally for my chirpy mods site, but weirdly in localhost only the xml one shows up and the other one is 404.

The bottom one from my just-the-docs jekyll site is being crawled fine, with or without the .xml extension.
Is it some bug with chirpy sitemap gen?

[MhmRhm]

Dear @SoumyaK4 in GitHub workflow when the pipeline finishes I can download and extract generated site. I can see the sitemap there.

[SoumyaK4]

@danywebxx yes, but I'm assuming something is happening with the dynamic rendering, so you can test once with self created sitemap

[MhmRhm]

Manual sitemap also left me with same result. With .xml and without .xml. Google search console was unable to see it.

[SoumyaK4]

@MhmRhm honestly I have no idea why,
can you make a backup of your posts, then delete the repo, and start from the scratch with chirpy starter.
I do this whenever I encounter problems I can't fix