Remove links from sitemap.xml

[nqthqn]

I added a product archetype that gets used on the home page. But I do not want any detail views/single.html layout/permalinks for this content. I do not want links to this content added to my sitemap.xml.

How do I hide stuff from the sitemap? Or maybe - how do I prevent content to use the _default/single.html layout? It is meant to be like a partial… that you can edit. It’s just a block on the home page.

I do this in my index.html

{{ range $i,$p := (where .Data.Pages “Section” “product”) }}

[RickCogley]

One method:

Custom Robots.txt and sitemap.xml Templates

Intro The docs have an example of how to block every page using robots.txt but, I wanted to make a robots.txt template that blocks only pages with a certain frontmatter param. As others have pointed out in the comments and elsewhere, robots.txt is not a sure thing. Web crawlers have to be set to honor it, and sometimes they are not. Additionally, for any page that is disallowed in robots.txt, the same page should be excluded from the sitemap. Here’s what to do: Set Up the robots.txt Template T…

[ju52]

@nqthqn

how do I prevent content to use the _default/single.html layout?

Change the template, set layout in frontmatter.

• Copy single.html to single2.html
• remove {{ .Content }} from single2.html
• set layout = single2 in frontmatter