It’s really easy to create simple sitemap.xml in django. You can follow the instructions from this site or just google it. However… it’s a bit more complicated when you want to create simple.xml file with newses and some static pages.

Ok, first… do we really need simple.xml in our website? Yes, we do. Because of search engines.

Now, how to create it in django? Use ‘django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap’.

Ok, now… creating simple sitemap.xml is really simple:

1. if you want a list of newses from your site – use this instruction
2. if you want to have static pages from your site – you can look at the last answer from this thread

However… what if you want to have all the pages (dynamic newses and static pages) from your site in one sitemap.xml? You need to do something more…

cd /home/workspace/my_project
vim sitemaps.py

and add there:

from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap
from my_project.main.models import News

from datetime import datetime

import sys
reload(sys)
sys.setdefaultencoding("utf-8")

class AbstractSitemapClass:
	freq = ''
	changefreq = 'daily'
	prio = None
	url = None

	def get_absolute_url(self):
		return self.url

class BlogSitemap(Sitemap):
	changefreq = "monthly"
	priority = 0.5

	pages = {
		'main' : '/',
		'contact' : '/contact/',
		'about-us' : '/about-us/',
		'art-design' : '/art-design/',
		'life-style' : '/life-style/',
	}

	def items(self):
		newses2feed = News.objects.order_by('-dateCreated')

		newses2feed = list(newses2feed)

		for each_page in self.pages.keys():
			new_class = AbstractSitemapClass()
			new_class.freq = 'weekly'
			new_class.prio = 0.7
			new_class.url = self.pages[each_page]
			newses2feed.append(new_class)

		return newses2feed

	def lastmod(self, obj):
		try:
			date = obj.dateCreated
		except AttributeError:
			date = datetime.now()

		return date

	def changefreq(self, obj):
		obj_freq = None
		try:
			obj_freq = obj.freq
		except AttributeError:
			pass

		if obj_freq:
			return obj_freq
		else:
			return 'monthly'

	def priority(self, obj):
		obj_prio = None
		try:
			obj_prio = obj.prio
		except AttributeError:
			pass

		if obj_prio:
			return obj_prio
		else:
			return 0.5

and now:

vim urls.py

and add there (somewhere at the beginning):

from my_project.sitemaps import BlogSitemap

sitemaps = {
	'news': BlogSitemap,
}

and new pattern:

(r'^sitemap.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),

That’s all.

Btw… don’t forget pinging google after each change in sitemap.xml.

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