Sitemap lastmod errors for tags and categories

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Hello @everyone
My sitemap has some errors for some tags and categories, but not for all.
The lastmod date for these is 0001-01-01.
I’m using the BlogRa theme: GitHub - rafed/BlogRa: The Ultimate Tech Blogging Hugo Theme

Not a big problem but without errors is better of course.
Thanks in advance

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Nothing one could do her with just stating it does not work… see Requesting Help

May you get a faster and accurate answer if you use their github issue tracker

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I didn’t says it like you say I did.
Google Console says there is an error at line so and so (e.g. line 392).
At these lines the lastmod date is 0001-01-01 which makes Google say this is not correct (date).
For the code I linked to the repo.

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Mmh.

Error in line 392 which error, which file

You shared the theme repo not yours.

I still think you should elaborate your post

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In the sitemap of course. Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
And line 392 is a lastmod date with value 0001-01-01 - as already said.
Google Console error says date is wrong.
I already said that.

I’m using this theme vanilla.

And it’s all not a big problem. I thought it could just even be a hugo bug to consider, or something new which causes that problems et cetera.

BTW sorry for my bad language abilities.

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let’s see how far we can get

hugo new site bla
cd bla
git init
git submodule add https://github.com/rafed/BlogRa.git themes/BlogRa
echo "theme = 'BlogRa'" >> hugo.toml
hugo
cat public/sitemap.xml
public/sitemap.xml 
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  
      
      
      
	  <url>
	    <loc>https://example.org/categories/</loc>
	    <lastmod>0001-01-01</lastmod>
        

        
	  </url>
	  
  
      
      
      
	  <url>
	    <loc>https://example.org/</loc>
	    <lastmod>0001-01-01</lastmod>
        

        
	  </url>
	  
  
      
      
      
	  <url>
	    <loc>https://example.org/tags/</loc>
	    <lastmod>0001-01-01</lastmod>
        

        
	  </url>
	  
  
</urlset>

No line 392 :wink: but your invalid date for all stuff listed and not for some as I suppose for your content

check out: themes\BlogRa\layouts\sitemap.xml

The templates uses .Lastmod (line 8) of the listed pages and this is unset.

see: Lastmod | Hugo for details about the lastmod attribute

so not a bug here, just a reference to an set value.

Estimation:

you have some pages that do not have a Frontmatter attribute lastmod set

So it depends on the theme and your content!

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Thank you very much for the insights.
The problem is that is only for categories and tags.
The posts seem to be fine without the lastmod attribute.
I don’t have an idea how to set lastmod tor e.g. tags.

Maybe I have to purge these tags, use lastmod on every post and re-add these tags later.
But this can’t be a proper approach.

But thank you very much so far.

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You could try to add an _index.md files to /content/tags containing just frontmatter

+++
lastmod = 2024-07-12
+++

Works in the bare setup. Dunno if that has any negative impact with your content. Just give it a try

Other options:

  • adress to the theme author to improve the theme
  • customize the template to use fe now if the attribute is not set
  • enable gitinfo in config
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Hugo’s embedded sitemap template writes a lastmod tag only if the lastmod is not zero.

Your theme’s sitemap template doesn’t check for a zero date.

Either modify the template accordingly or raise an issue with the theme author.

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