Sitemap –
Sitemap protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes. This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently and to find URLs that may be isolated from the rest of the site’s content.
Add sitemaps to INSTALLED_APPS –
Django also comes with a sitemaps creator go to the blog app directory and add sitemaps to installed apps in settings file
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INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'blog', # adding in installed apps 'django.contrib.sitemaps',] |
Create Sitemap –
Create a file sitemaps.py and paste the below code.
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from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemapfrom .models import posts# sitemap classclass blogSitemap(Sitemap):# change frequency and priority changefreq = "daily" priority = 1.0 def items(self): return posts.objects.filter(status = 1) def lastmod(self, obj): return obj.updated_on |
Add absolute URL to model –
Sitemap generated should have urls for our posts so we need to add a simple function to our model so that we sitemap library can generate posts urls
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# add it in your model for which you want to generate sitemapdef get_absolute_url(self): from django.urls import reverse return reverse("post_detail", kwargs ={"slug": str(self.slug)}) |
Routing for sitemap –
Now to generate the sitemap url, Go to urls.py file of the and add the route
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# adding sitemap librariesfrom django.contrib.sitemaps.views import sitemapfrom blog.sitemaps import blogSitemapblogsitemap = {"blog": blogSitemap, }urlpatterns = [..... # urls handling site maps path("sitemap.xml", sitemap, {"sitemaps": blogsitemap}, name ="sitemap"),.....] |
Now you can see RSS feed and Sitemaps at assigned urls
Sample Sitemap
Sample Sitemap
How to add RSS Feed and Sitemap to Django project?
This article is in continuation of Blog CMS Project in Django. Check this out here – Building Blog CMS (Content Management System) with Django
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