Please include sitemaps

Resolved Ken Gagne
(@kgagne)

9 years, 3 months ago

Hello!

I recently used this plugin for the first time, and it did what I expected on the first try. I’m very happy with it!

But I did notice that my site’s sitemap.xml file was not downloaded. Google Webmaster Tools relies on this file, so I manually reproduced it for the static HTML site. It’d be great if Simply Static checked for this file in its scan — as well as any files or pages the sitemap links to that may have otherwise escaped the initial scan. (In my case, the sitemap plugin I was using breaks down the sitemap into dozens of constituent parts, so I had to grab each one.)

Separately, in the ZIP file that the plugin generated, in the wp-content folder, was another folder called wp-static-html-output-1-1488341640-kgagne, which recursively contained yet another copy of the site. This seems more like a temporary folder that should’ve been excluded. Did I misconfigure my settings?

-Ken

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thisislawatts
(@thisislawatts)

9 years, 2 months ago

Thanks for flagging this @kgagne. I have been playing about with Simply Static today and was a little surprised to see that the XML files were not generated as part of this process.

I’m using Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin. Which plugin are you using for sitemaps?

Thread Starter Ken Gagne
(@kgagne)

9 years, 2 months ago

I’m pretty sure I was using Google XML Sitemaps.
thisislawatts
(@thisislawatts)

9 years, 2 months ago
Hey @kgagne,

Thanks for the information.

I tried adding the URL of my main sitemap to the Additional URLs setting and it crawled all of the linked maps. 👌

Give it a shot!
- This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by thisislawatts.
Thread Starter Ken Gagne
(@kgagne)

9 years, 2 months ago

Brilliant! Why didn’t I think of that? Thanks for the heads-up!

BTW, I noticed the plugin tended to rename folders that have spaces in them. By poor design on my end, my site’s theme was in a folder called “Home Gym Folder”. The version produced by the Static HTML plugin was called “Home%20Game%20Folder”, causing all links to “Home Gym Folder” to break. Simply renaming the folder back to its original name was an easy fix.

-Ken

thisislawatts
(@thisislawatts)

9 years, 2 months ago

Hey @kgagne,

Thanks for the note about ensuring there are no spaces in Theme folders, good to know.

Would you be happy to mark this item as resolved? A feature request for the plugin going forward might be to check if there are sitemaps on the site and automatically include those via Include/Exclude > Additional URLs but otherwise I think this thread has a good solution in place.

Thread Starter Ken Gagne
(@kgagne)

9 years, 2 months ago

Done!