Sitecore DynamicSitemap

Sitecore sitemap module that tries to be as much flexible and configurable as possible.

It has two main assumptions:

• Flexible configuration

  Gives end user as many as possible configuration options. It is easier to edit Sitecore items than edit and deploy config files.

• Extensibility

  Code functionality should be extensible and overridable. It should be easy to extend or override functionality, without decompiling and copy-pasting a lot of code.

Module was based on the original Sitemap XML module

New features:

• Configurations for sites controlled from Content Editor
• Defining < changefreq > and < priority > tags for templates and specified items
• Language fallback for configuration items
• Overridable method ProcessItems() for specifing own low-level logic
• Generating sitemap index file

Original Sitemap XML features

• Multisite and multilanguage support
• Automatically updated robots.txt file
• Physical XML sitemaps files generation
• Automatic sitemap submit on publish

Installation:

• Install zip package using Sitecore Package Installer

Configuration:

• Dynamic Sitemap XML provides Sitecore.SharedSource.DynamicSitemap.config configuration file installed in /App_Config/Include directory.

Setting that can be specified there:

• sitemapConfigurationOutputFolder - folder where will be generated sitemap xml files
• refreshRobotsFile (true or false) - indicates that robots.txt file will be updated with references to sitemap xml files
• xmlnsTpl - sitemap module schema used for the XML sitemap
• database - the database from which to pull items for generating the sitemap
• productionEnvironment - (true or false) determines whether the sitemap should be submitted to the search engines or not