Strapi Advanced Sitemap

SEO-ready XML sitemaps for Strapi CMS. Create manual URL sets or sitemap indexes, generate dynamic feeds from collection types, and expose every endpoint behind role-based permissions no external services required.

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🚀 Strapi Advanced Sitemap

📦 NPM Package: @webbycrown/strapi-advanced-sitemap
💻 Repository: GitHub – webbycrown/strapi-advanced-sitemap

🎥 Overview & Usage Demo

A short introduction and quick overview of Strapi Advanced Sitemap, showcasing how to build manual or dynamic XML sitemaps, publish sitemap indexes, and control access per role inside the Strapi admin panel.

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✨ Features

🗂️ Manual Sitemap Builder

Single sitemap (<urlset>): curate individual URLs with optional priority values
Sitemap index (<sitemapindex>): reference other sitemap files (internal or external)
Automatic URL resolution: combine relative paths with your site base URL
UI hints & validation: friendly helper text, required field checks, URL previews

🔁 Dynamic Collection Sitemaps

Pattern-based URLs: use tokens like /blog/[slug] (supports nested fields)
Entry prefix & base path: compose clean URLs without extra middleware
Frequency, priority, lastmod: configure crawl metadata per sitemap
Draft filtering: includes only published entries from Draft & Publish collections

🔒 Permission-Aware Delivery

Role gating: every endpoint maps to an action (plugin::strapi-advanced-sitemap.controller.*)
Public crawler control: enable only the endpoints you want search engines to reach
API token support: respect token-bound permissions for programmatic access

🛠️ Admin-First Workflow

Inline editing: manage everything from Settings → Strapi Advanced Sitemap
Frontend base URL control: store the live site origin once and reuse it across manual and collection previews
Instant feedback: clear success/error messages plus live URL previews for every manual entry
No redeploys: sitemap definitions are stored in Strapi entities

📸 Feature Screens

Configure Sitemap Page

Permissions in Public Role Screen

Manual Sitemap Settings (Sitemap Index)

Manual Sitemap Settings (URL Set)

Manual Sitemap Settings (Url Set)

Collection Sitemap Settings

Collection Sitemap Entry

🛠️ Installation

Via npm

npm install @webbycrown/strapi-advanced-sitemap

Via yarn

yarn add @webbycrown/strapi-advanced-sitemap

Enable the plugin

Update config/plugins.js:

module.exports = {
  'strapi-advanced-sitemap': {
    enabled: true,
  },
};

Restart Strapi and rebuild the admin panel:

npm run build
npm run develop

⚡ Quick Start

Open the admin panel → Settings → Strapi Advanced Sitemap
Add a manual sitemap (single or index) and configure filename/base path
Add entries
- Single sitemap: supply URLs (relative or absolute) + optional priorities
- Index sitemap: supply links to other sitemap files
Add a collection sitemap: pick a collection type, define a pattern (e.g. /articles/[slug]), and adjust metadata
Grant permissions: Settings → Users & Permissions → Roles → Public (or another role) → enable the sitemap actions:
- serveRootSitemap
- serveManualSitemapIndex
- serveManualSitemapFile
- serveCollectionSitemapFile

Available Endpoints

/sitemap.xml – root sitemap index (manual + collection entries)
/sitemaps/manual-sitemaps – manual sitemap index (if configured)
/sitemaps/{filename}.xml – individual manual sitemap files
/api/strapi-advanced-sitemap/collection-sitemaps/{id}.xml – collection XML (also linked from the root)

🧭 Manual Sitemap Types

Type	Emits	When to use	Entry expectations
Single sitemap	`<urlset>`	Hand-curated URLs (blogs, landing pages)	Each entry is a path or absolute URL; optional priority
Sitemap index	`<sitemapindex>`	Aggregate internal/external sitemap files	Each entry points to another sitemap file

Relative paths are automatically combined with your configured base URL and per-sitemap base path.

🧱 Collection Sitemap Patterns

Use [fieldName] tokens (nested allowed: [author.slug]) to build URLs
Combine with “Entry prefix” or “Base path” to match your routing strategy
lastmod draws from updatedAt, publishedAt, or createdAt
Draft entries are excluded when Draft & Publish is enabled

Example pattern:

/articles/[slug]

🔐 Permissions & Security

Actions live under plugin::strapi-advanced-sitemap.*
Denied roles receive 401 Unauthorized responses
API tokens respect the same action mapping
Manual sitemaps store relative paths only—final URLs are resolved server side

🧪 Troubleshooting

Symptom	Fix
Sitemap returns 401	Enable the corresponding plugin actions for that role
Manual sitemap URL 404s	Check filename + base path, ensure “Save changes” was clicked
Collection sitemap empty	Verify entries are published and the pattern resolves without leftover tokens
Admin UI stale	Run `npm run build` and restart Strapi