This add-on for the Statamic CMS automatically generates a sitemap XML file based on your website's content. The add-on was originally developed by Max Westen and it has been updated to work in Statamic 1.6+. The Statamic 1.4 branch has been removed as I have little interest in supporting older versions of the CMS.
For Max's repo, visit: https://github.com/mwesten/Plugin-Sitemap
Download the entire project and add the contents of the archive to a new folder in your Statamic _add-ons folder named sitemap.
Or clone this project on your system:
cd yourproject/_add-ons
git clone git://github.com/notasausage/Plugin-Sitemap.git sitemap
Copy the files from the _add-ons/sitemap/layouts folder to your _themes/themename/layouts folder.
Copy the files from the _add-ons/sitemap/templates folder to your _themes/themename/templates folder.
Copy the file _sitemap.md from the _add-ons/sitemap/content folder to your _content folder.
The sitemap will then be available by visiting the sitemap URL at http://yourproject.com/sitemap.
By default, all non-hidden folders, pages & entries will be scanned and included in the sitemap XML file. This XML file will include the URL, last modification time, change frequency and priority of each folder, page & entry found in the Statamic site.
For example, the site's homepage would appear in the XML file like so:
<url>
<loc>http://yourproject.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2013-10-08</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
</url>
The page's URL is generated automatically. The last modification time (lastmod) comes from Statamic's own Publish Date for that item and is used to determine the change frequency (changefreq) of the URL. The importance of the page, or priority (defined in the Sitemaps XML protocol), can be any number from 0 to 1 (where 0 is not important, and 1 is very important) and is set to 0.5 by default.
For more on how the Sitemaps XML Protocol works, visit: http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
If you want to change the priority for a folder, page or entry, you can set the priority on a case-by-case basis using the YAML prematter of the markdown file for that item.
For example, to give the homepage of your site a priority of 0.8, edit your _content/page.md file and add priority: 0.8 to the YAML prematter like so:
---
title: Home
_fieldset: home
_template: home
_layout: home
priority: 0.8
---
This is my homepage content.
To prevent non-hidden folders, pages or entries in Statamic from appearing in the sitemap's XML file, set the custom priority of each item to 0 and that item will not appear in the sitemap.
For example, this entry (a testimonial) would not appear in the generated sitemap:
---
title: P.H. from Boston
_template: testimonial
priority: 0
---
The service was fantastic, would definitely tell my friends about it.
By setting the priority of a page to 0, the Sitemap add-on will automatically skip any entries or sub-pages within that folder when building the sitemap XML file. This comes in handy if you want to hide any entries in a folder without having to set the priority on every entry manually.
More options to handle nested elements will be added at some point (especially for multiple nested layers).
At this point this add-on has been modified from its original version to include some extra functionality. Hat tip to Max Westen for creating it in the first place. If you find any bugs or decide you want to contribute to the code, fork the project in Github and share your changes by initiating pull requests. Thanks!