Steve Fenton

Adding a sitemap to Jekyll

You don’t really need a plugin to add a sitemap to your Jekyll site. You can use this basic template and extend as required.

To give you control over whether a page appears in the sitemap, I’ve used an additional header in the front-yaml on each page. You can see below the additional date and sitemap properties that we’re going to use…

---
layout: page
title: My Page Title 
date: 2022-07-20
sitemap: true
---

This means we can just list relevant pages in a sitemap.xml file, like this. It’s just a basic example with the minimal required fields.

---
layout: null
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
{% assign pages = site.pages | where:"sitemap","true" %}{% for page in pages %}  <url>
    <loc>https://octopus.com/devops{{ page.url }}</loc>
    <lastmod>{{ page.date }}</lastmod>
  </url>
{% endfor %}
</urlset>