Sitemaps are specially crafted XML files, usually located at https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml, that help search engines better crawl your site.
It came up in conversation on IRC that there was a need for a sitemap plugin for Known, and because such a plugin would be useful to myself as well as others (and because I had a little bit of time while waiting for a painfully slow set of Vagrant builds, so I thought I’d put something together.
So, over on github, I’ve put together a quick plugin that will automatically generate a basic sitemap plugin for your site, as well as update your robots.txt accordingly.
When you first visit your sitemap.xml file a sitemap will be generated and cached. When you create new posts, this file will be automatically updated.
It’s pretty simple at the moment, but as usual, pull requests are welcome!
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Hello Marcus, thanks for the sitemap plugin. Ive installed the plugin and visited mysite.com/sitemap.xml and the sitemap was generated, however it doesn’t seems to update when I add a new post.
Cheers!
Hmm… odd. If you could file it as a bug so I don’t forget, and I’ll take a look when I can…