Automatically generate sitemaps & keep them updated as you add, remove or modify files.
- Open your website's workspace / folder in VSCode.
- Run the command
Sitemap-Generator: New Sitemap - Select where to save the sitemap, select your prefered protocol and enter your domain name.
- A sitemap will be generated & a new settings file named
sitemap-generator.jsonwill appear under the .vscode folder.
If you want to tweak the settings of the sitemap you can open sitemap-generator.json either manually or by running the command Sitemap-Generator: Open Settings (JSON).
By default the sitemap will automatically be updated as you add, remove or modify files (this can be turned off in the sitemap-generator.json).
| Command Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Sitemap-Generator: New Sitemap | Creates a new sitemap based on a few user inputs |
| Sitemap-Generator: Re-Generate Sitemap | Re-Generate an already existing sitemap |
| Sitemap-Generator: Open Settings (JSON) | Opens the sitemap-generator.json settings file |
When a new sitemap is created, a sitemap-generator.json file will be created under .vscode in the current workspace.
This file includes some tweakable settings to format the sitemap as you want it.
| Key | Type | Default Value | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Protocol | http | https | "http" | The protocol to be used, can be either http or https |
| DomainName | string | "example.com" | The name of your domain e.g. "example.com" |
| Root | string | "./" | The relative path from the workspace to the website root where it should search for files |
| IncludeExt | string[] | [".html", ".php"] | List of file extentions to count as urls. e.g. ".html" |
| Exclude | string[] | [] | List of glob patterns to be excluded from the sitemap |
| TagsToInclude | string[] | ["priority", "lastmod"] | Tags to be included in the sitemap. Valid values are: "priority", "lastmod", "changefreq" |
| DefaultChangeFrequency | string | "monthly" | The default value to be added into changefreq xml tags when a new page is added |
| TabCharacters | string | "\t" | Character(s) to be used as tabs in the generated sitemap |
| bRemoveFileExtentions | boolean | false | Remove file extentions from the url |
| bIncludeWWW | boolean | true | If the url should include "www." or not |
| bUseTrailingSlash | boolean | false | Should url's end with a trailing forward slash |
| bAutomaticallyUpdateSitemap | boolean | true | Will automatically keep the sitemap updated when modifying files |
| bMinimized | boolean | false | Remove all whitespaces characters from the generated file to minimize the filesize |
The Exclude is expecting a glob pattern.
Examples:
"MyFolder/*"- Excludes all files under the 'MyFolder', located under the root"**/MySubFolders/*"- Exclude all files under any folder named 'MySubFolders'"MyFolder/*.php"- Exclude all .php files under the 'MyFolder' folder.
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or feature requests: