📦 plugin-sitemap

This plugin creates sitemaps for your site so that search engine crawlers can crawl your site more accurately.

production only

This plugin is always inactive in development and only active in production because it works on the build output.

Installation

npm

npm install --save @docusaurus/plugin-sitemap

Yarn

yarn add @docusaurus/plugin-sitemap

tip

If you use the preset @docusaurus/preset-classic, you don't need to install this plugin as a dependency.

You can configure this plugin through the preset options.

Configuration

Accepted fields:

Name	Type	Default	Description
changefreq	string	'weekly'	See sitemap docs
priority	number	0.5	See sitemap docs
ignorePatterns	string[]	[]	A list of glob patterns; matching route paths will be filtered from the sitemap. Note that you may need to include the base URL in here.
filename	string	sitemap.xml	The path to the created sitemap file, relative to the output directory. Useful if you have two plugin instances outputting two files.

info

This plugin also respects some site config:

• noIndex: results in no sitemap generated
• trailingSlash: determines if the URLs in the sitemap have trailing slashes

Example configuration

You can configure this plugin through preset options or plugin options.

tip

Most Docusaurus users configure this plugin through the preset options.

Preset options

If you use a preset, configure this plugin through the preset options:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {
  presets: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/preset-classic',
      {
        sitemap: {
          changefreq: 'weekly',
          priority: 0.5,
          ignorePatterns: ['/tags/**'],
          filename: 'sitemap.xml',
        },
      },
    ],
  ],
};

Plugin options

If you are using a standalone plugin, provide options directly to the plugin:

docusaurus.config.js

module.exports = {
  plugins: [
    [
      '@docusaurus/plugin-sitemap',
      {
        changefreq: 'weekly',
        priority: 0.5,
        ignorePatterns: ['/tags/**'],
        filename: 'sitemap.xml',
      },
    ],
  ],
};

You can find your sitemap at /sitemap.xml.