metalsmith-mapsite

A metalsmith plugin for generating a sitemap

This plugin allows you to generate a sitemap.xml from your source files. By default it looks for any .html files and processes them with sitemap.js.

Installation

$ npm install metalsmith-mapsite

CLI Usage

Configuration in metalsmith.json:

{
  "plugins": {
    "metalsmith-mapsite": {
      "hostname": "http://www.website.com"
    }
  }
}

JavaScript Usage

var sitemap = require('metalsmith-mapsite');
 
metalsmith(__dirname)
  .use(sitemap('http://www.website.com'))
  .build(function(err){
    if (err) throw err;
  });

Options

You can pass options to metalsmith-mapsite with the Javascript API or CLI. The options are:

hostname

• required

The hostname used for generating the urls.

changefreq

• optional
• default: weekly

Change the default changefreq.

pattern

• optional
• default: '**/*.html'

A multimatch pattern. Only files that match this pattern will be included in the sitemap. Can be a string or an array of strings.

priority

• optional
• default: '0.5'

Change the default priority.

output

• optional
• default: 'sitemap.xml'

Change the output file for the sitemap.

lastmod

• optional

Add a lastmodified date to the sitemap. Should be a Date object and can be passed through the Javascript API or the frontmatter.

omitExtension

• optional
• default: false

Will remove extensions from the urls in the sitemap. Useful when you're rewriting urls.

omitIndex

• optional
• default: false

Will replace any paths ending in index.html with ''. Useful when you're using metalsmith-permalinks.

Frontmatter

Some values can also be set on a file-to-file basis from a file's frontmatter, the options are:

• canonical: will override the filename used to generate the url. The path is relative to the hostname.
• changefreq: will override any other settings for changefreq for the current file.
• lastmod: will override any other settings for lastmod for the current file.
• priority: will override any other settings for priority for the current file.
• private: will exclude the file from the sitemap when set to true.

For example:

---
canonical: 'different'
changefreq: always
lastmod: 2014-12-01
priority: 1.0
private: true
---
<!-- index.html -->

Origins

Metalsmith-mapsite is a fork of metalsmith-sitemap. After refactoring metalsmith-sitemap I decided I would like to keep the plugin as simple as possible, to minimize possible points of failure and because it already does a lot.

This conflicted with the maintainer's goals, which is why I forked the plugin to metalsmith-mapsite. Mainly just for personal use, but maybe it'll be of use for others as well!

License

MIT