Sitemap Template
A single Sitemap template is used to generate the sitemap.xml file.
Hugo automatically comes with this template file. No work is needed on
the users’ part unless they want to customize sitemap.xml.
A sitemap is a Page and therefore has all the page variables available to use in this template along with Sitemap-specific ones:
.Sitemap.ChangeFreq- The page change frequency
.Sitemap.Priority- The priority of the page
.Sitemap.Filename- The sitemap filename
If provided, Hugo will use /layouts/sitemap.xml instead of the internal sitemap.xml template that ships with Hugo.
Sitemap Templates
Hugo has built-on Sitemap templates, but you can provide your own if needed, in either layouts/sitemap.xml or layouts/_default/sitemap.xml.
For multilingual sites, we also create a Sitemap index. You can provide a custom layout for that in either layouts/sitemapindex.xml or layouts/_default/sitemapindex.xml.
Hugo’s sitemap.xml
This template respects the version 0.9 of the Sitemap Protocol.
{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\" ?>" | safeHTML }}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
{{ range .Data.Pages }}
<url>
<loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>{{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}
<lastmod>{{ safeHTML ( .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>{{ end }}{{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
<changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{ end }}{{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
<priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>{{ end }}{{ if .IsTranslated }}{{ range .Translations }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
</url>
{{ end }}
</urlset>
Hugo’s sitemapindex.xml
This is used to create a Sitemap index in multilingual mode:
{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\" ?>" | safeHTML }}
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
{{ range . }}
<sitemap>
<loc>{{ .SitemapAbsURL }}</loc>
{{ if not .LastChange.IsZero }}
<lastmod>{{ .LastChange.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" | safeHTML }}</lastmod>
{{ end }}
</sitemap>
{{ end }}
</sitemapindex>
Configure sitemap.xml
Defaults for <changefreq>, <priority> and filename values can be set in the site’s config file, e.g.:
sitemap:
changefreq: monthly
filename: sitemap.xml
priority: 0.5
[sitemap]
changefreq = "monthly"
filename = "sitemap.xml"
priority = 0.5
{
"sitemap": {
"changefreq": "monthly",
"filename": "sitemap.xml",
"priority": 0.5
}
}
The same fields can be specified in an individual content file’s front matter in order to override the value assigned to that piece of content at render time.