Discourse Sitemap

[Discourse]

	Summary	Discourse Sitemap adds a sitemap.xml to your Discourse instance
	Install Guide	This plugin is bundled with Discourse core. There is no need to install the plugin separately.

Features

There has been some discussion over the need of a sitemap, and I think Discourse doesn’t really need one, although I do believe that a forum might be indexed a bit faster with one.

Anyway, we created this plugin because of a customer that needed a sitemap for Google News, and this trick didn’t work because they were using Amazon S3 to store their uploads (which broke the same domain requirement)

Configuration

Just enable it using the site setting in the Plugins menu, and you will get

• /sitemap.xml
• /news.xml
• A Sitemap line in robots.txt

Do you need a sitemap?

No. You do not necessarily “need” a sitemap.xml file.

The Sitemap Paradox

TL;DR You can get faster indexing with a sitemap, but it doesn’t necessarily make for better SEO.

If you have a very large site, this may benefit you by allowing for faster page indexing.

CHANGELOG

• Add new bullets when major features are committed here

TODO

• Including a XSLT to display it more nicely to humans (should be local due to same origin policy) so we should have a way to register an asset that is accessible as a separate file.

[DanielMarquard]

@RGJ

BTW I do appreciate your fixes but please leave any copyright notices intact when you fork something. I mean, you removed a single character in the code and that warranted to change the copyright and the URL in the sitemap files?

Sorry about that. With the fix added on your repo, I’ll just remove this one.

[vinothkannans (Vinoth Kannan)]

@RGJ

We’re going to change the Sitemap plugin

I am also doing the changes on Sitemap plugin. I will create a new PR soon. Currently I am working on the 4 points which are recommended by @sam in previous post.

[sam (Sam Saffron)]

I guess the problem is that it is never able to even render first time around.

grabbing 50K topics can take a while, I would try a pluck there instead of a select cause it would be much faster

Short of that a site setting to limit the size cause maybe smaller batches are needed … not sure.

[Pramvir_Rathee (Chaudhary)]

the sitemap plugin of discourse do not update the sitemap urls to https:// (as usually seen in wordpress). It still shows http://. Please solve this issue. As it helps in faster https:// indexing after migrating to SSL

[thaidb]

I only post 1 photos 1 topic

[TomekB (Tomek)]

Hi, what could be the reason I get error 502 bad gateway on my sitemap?
https://forum.dobreprogramy.pl/sitemap.xml

[PoojaPatel]

Seria ótimo adicionar a página inicial ao sitemap.

Pequenas sugestões:

1. Ela pode ser incluída em um arquivo separado chamado page_sitemap.xml (incluindo páginas como Homepage, Privacidade, TOS e Sobre).

Atualmente, essas páginas já estão no Google Search Console com o status (Indexadas, não enviadas no sitemap).

2. Para páginas de categoria e tag, a opção de marcação abaixo precisa ser incluída nas configurações do plugin. Essas páginas já estão incluídas no Google Search Console como (Indexadas, não enviadas no sitemap).

a) Categoria: adicionar no sitemap “Sim” ou “Não”

b) Tags: adicionar no sitemap “Sim” ou “Não”

Nota: essa opção ajudará quem deseja desativar o rastreamento de páginas de categorias e tags. Ao selecionar a opção “Não”, essas páginas incluirão {content=“noindex”}.

3. O “Sitemap de imagens” também é muito útil para que o Google descubra, rastreie e indexe imagens.

Image Sitemaps | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for...

Image SEO Best Practices | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google...

Na aba de desempenho, os relatórios do Console mostram como as imagens se comportam na pesquisa do Google.

[pinder99 (Raza shield)]

@osioke quando tento adicionar o sitemap, ele mostra que não foi possível buscar. Estou tentando criar um ambiente de testes para meu cliente com todos os plugins e recursos disponíveis, e esse é um dos requisitos mais importantes.

Edição: o site é https://testghost.tk

[justin (Justin DiRose)]

Isso ocorre porque este plugin foi projetado para ajudar os mecanismos de busca a indexar seu site mais rapidamente. Lamento, mas sua solicitação exigirá um plugin personalizado.