Every public website should have a sitemap.xml to increase SEO. A website where the content is managed by Strapi should be no different. With this plugin you can generate a sitemap server side, which allows you to customize it based on your data structure in Strapi.
This plugin uses the UID field type to fetch URLs, and therefor expects a Strapi version of 3.0.0-beta.19.3 or higher.
Use npm or yarn to install and build the plugin.
yarn add strapi-plugin-sitemap
yarn build
yarn develop
Before you can generate the sitemap you need to specify what you want to be in it. In the admin section of the plugin you can add 'Collection entries' and 'Custom entries' to the sitemap. With collection entries you can add all URLs of a collection or single type, with custom entries you can add URLs which are not managed by Strapi. Also make sure to set the hostname of your website.
After saving the settings and generating the sitemap, it will be written in the /public folder of your Strapi project, making it available at http://localhost:1337/sitemap.xml.
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As of writing this the Strapi lifecycle methods are not stable and can't be used to regenerate the sitemap after a change of a URL. So to make sure your sitemap is up-to-date you can add a cron job where you run the
createSitemap()service periodically.
// Generate the sitemap every 12 hours
'0 */12 * * *': () => {
strapi.plugins.sitemap.services.sitemap.createSitemap();
},
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