specific categories to sitemap instead of "category:all"

[sleepingwheel]

great work on this.

i have a suggestion & question for sitemap.

Njk template there uses "collections.all" to generate sitemap for all possible pages, like so

---
permalink: sitemap.xml
hidden: true
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
{%- for page in collections.all %}
{%- if not page.data.hidden %}
    <url>
        <loc>{{ site.url }}{{ page.url | url }}</loc>
        <lastmod>{{ page.date | htmlDateDisplay }}</lastmod>
    </url>
{%- endif %}
{%- endfor %}

One of the outputs in a resulting sitemap is
https://skeleventy.netlify.app/category/all/
which is a collection of all possible pages - a bit of a mess for indexing.

Instead of "category all", it would be better that google indexes each category, for example

<url>
<loc>https://skeleventy.netlify.app/category/software/</loc>
<lastmod>2020-7-20</lastmod>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://skeleventy.netlify.app/category/writing/</loc>
<lastmod>2020-7-20</lastmod>
</url>

But how can i edit that njk template so that it
-captures and outputs different categories in the sitemap?
-excludes category/all
-leaves other important pages like homepage, each blog post etc

thanks again,

[josephdyer]

Yeah, I'm not sure off the top of my head. I'll have a look into this! 👍

[josephdyer]

I've managed to get rid of the https://skeleventy.netlify.app/category/all/ from the sitemap.