Sitemap

With the Sitemap feature, Stacks administrators can now generate and manage XML sitemaps directly within the Stacks Dashboard. Sitemaps help search engines index pages such as events, guides, and informational content, especially helpful for users who arrive from Google or other search tools rather than your homepage.

Sitemaps update automatically as content changes, so you don’t need to regenerate or maintain them manually. This feature also supports both multi-domain and multi-language sites. 

For example:

Since events can be included in the sitemap for your Stacks site, if a patron searches Google for “genealogy workshop Pickering library,” that workshop page should then appear directly in their search results, removing the need for them to navigate to your events list first.

Configuring the sitemap

1. Navigate to the Dashboard, then click the System Configuration tile

2. Click the Sitemap tile

3. Enable sitemap, check this box to enable this feature (uncheck to disable it)

4. Content types

   1. Check the box beside each content type you wish to be included in the sitemap

5. Sitemap status

   1. This section will display when the sitemap was last generated.

      1. Tip! The sitemap will regenerate every hour to ensure that it reflects any new or deleted content. Only content in the “Published” state will be included in the sitemap.

6. Click Save configuration when finished