💡 Usage

With this plugin you have full control over which URLs you add to your sitemap XML. Go to the admin section of the plugin and start adding URLs. Here you will find that there are two ways to add URLs to the sitemap. With URL bundles and Custom URLs.

URL bundles

✋ Caution

For a content type to be added to the sitemap through URL bundles, it needs to have Webtools enabled. Read about how to enable Webtools on it's documentation.

An URL bundle is a set of URLs grouped by type. If you set up an URL bundle, all pages of that content type will end up in the sitemap.

URLs coming from a URL bundle will get the following XML attributes:

• <loc> - The URL location
• <lastmod> - Last modification date (automatically set from Strapi)
• <priority> - Relative importance (0.1 - 1.0)
• <changefreq> - How often search engines should crawl

Bundle Settings

When configuring a URL bundle, you can set:

Setting	Options	Description
Priority	0.1 - 1.0	Relative importance of URLs in this bundle. Higher priority (e.g., 0.8 or 1.0) suggests these URLs are more important. Default is typically 0.5.
Change frequency	always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, never	Hint to search engines about how often these URLs change. Does not guarantee crawl frequency.

💡 Multiple Bundles

You can add the same content type multiple times with different settings. For example:

• Bundle 1: English articles with daily updates and priority: 0.8
• Bundle 2: Dutch articles with weekly updates and priority: 0.6

This allows fine-grained control over how different content and locales appear in your sitemap.

Custom URLs

A custom URL is meant to add URLs to the sitemap which are not managed in Strapi. It might be that you have custom route like /account that is hardcoded in your front-end. If you'd want to add such a route (URL) to the sitemap you can add it as a custom URL.

Custom URLs will get the following XML attributes:

• <loc>
• <priority>
• <changefreq>

Generate

After you've successfully configured your sitemap it's time to generate it. You can generate the sitemap manually by clicking the 'Generate sitemap' button in the admin panel.

By default your sitemap will be generated periodically through cron. Optionally you can also configure the plugin to update the sitemap every time your content gets updated.

You can set that up using the plugins configuration.

Access

After you've followed the steps above you can now access your sitemap through the REST api of strapi. It will be available at:

https://localhost:1337/api/sitemap/index.xml.