XML Sitemap Splitter for Magento 2

Configuration Settings

To access the XML Sitemap Splitter settings, log into the Magento Admin panel and go to STORES ⟶ Configuration ⟶ ULMOD EXTENSIONS ⟶ SEO XML Sitemap Splitter.

The module’s configuration contains nine sections.

General

In the General section the following settings are available :

Maximum Number of URLs per File -  the maximum number of URLs that can be included in each sitemap. By default, the max URLs per file is 50000. Example: If 100 is entered and if :

• Categories: the total categories URLs in the store are 300, three separate categories sitemap are generated with 100 URLs per sitemap (Eg. 'filename_categories.xml, 'filename_categories_1.xml, filename_categories_2.xml')
• Products "In Stock": the total in-stock product URLs in the store are 300, three separate in-stock product sitemap are generated with 100 URLs per sitemap (Eg. 'products.xml, '_products_1.xml, _products_2.xml')
• Products "Out of Stock": the total out-of-stock product URLs are 300, three separate out-of-stock product sitemap are generated with 100 URLs per sitemap (Eg. 'products_outstock.xml, '_products_outstock_1.xml, _products_outstock_2.xml')
• Products Review: the total product review URLs are 300, three separate product review sitemap are generated with 100 URLs per sitemap ('products_review.xml, '_products_review_1.xml, _products_review_2.xml')
• CMS Pages: the total store CMS Pages URLs are 300, three separate CMS Page sitemap are generated with 100 URLs per sitemap (Eg. 'filename_cms.xml, 'filename_cms_1.xml, filename_cms_2.xml')

Check orphan products -  set to "Yes", to check products that are not assigned or associated with any categories or, "No" to disable this functionality

Exclude URLs disallowed by robots.txt rules in the sitemap -  if set to "Yes", URLs disallowed by robots.txt will be excluded in the sitemap.

Check products not included in the sitemap generation (Debug Mode Only) -  set to "Yes" to check products that are not fetched or included during sitemap generation. Use this only for debug purpose as it may slow down your site

Categories

Enable -  set to "Yes" to include categories pages in the sitemap. The category sitemap file will be suffixed by with '_categories' eg. http://mystore.com/sitemaps/nl/sitemap_categories.xml

Use last modified date? -  If "Yes" the date when the page was last modified will be used else the current date will be used

Frequency -  choose how frequently the content of the categories pages is likely to change: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never

Priority -  enters a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Zero has the lowest priority. This indicates the priority of categories URLs relative to other URLs on your site

Products "In Stock"

Enable -  set to "Yes" to include "in stock" products pages in the sitemap. The product sitemap file will be suffixed by with '_products' eg. http://mystore.com/sitemaps/nl/sitemap_products.xml

Use last modified date? - If "Yes" the date when the page was last modified will be used else the current date will be used

Frequency - choose how frequently the content of the products pages is likely to change: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never

Priority - enters a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Zero has the lowest priority. This indicates the priority of products URLs relative to other URLs on your site

Visibility - select the visibility of the in-stock products to includes on sitemap: Catalog; Search; Catalog, Search

Products "Out Stock"

Enable -  set to "Yes" to include "out of stock" products pages in the sitemap. The out of stock product sitemap file will be suffixed by with '_products_outstock' eg. http://mystore.com/sitemaps/nl/sitemap_products_outstock.xml

Use last modified date? -  If "Yes" the date when the page was last modified will be used else the current date will be used

Frequency - choose how frequently the out-of-stock products pages content is likely to change: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never

Priority - enters a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Zero has the lowest priority. This indicates the priority of out-of-stock products URLs relative to other URLs on your site

Products Image

Add product image into product sitemap - choose to include/exclude product images into the product sitemap:

• No -  exclude product images into the product sitemap;
• Yes -  includes product images into the product sitemap;

Show product image title (Optional) - if set to "Yes" the title of the image (product image alt text) will be included on the sitemap

Show product image caption (optional) - if set to "Yes" the caption of the image (product short description) will be included on the sitemap

Show product image license (Optional) - if set to "Yes" the custom image license will be included in the sitemap

Custom product image license - specifies the custom image license to include on the sitemap. eg: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Products Review

Enable -  if set to "Yes", products review will be included in the sitemap. The product review sitemap file will be suffixed by with '_products_review' eg. http://mystore.com/sitemaps/nl/sitemap_products_review.xml. Note: reviews from products with visibility set under STORES → Configuration → ULMOD EXTENSIONS → SEO Xml Sitemap Splitter → Products "In Stock" → Visibility field, will be included on the sitemap

Frequency - choose how frequently the content of the reviews pages is likely to change: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never

Priority - enters a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Zero has the lowest priority. This indicates the priority of products review URLs relative to other URLs on your site

CMS Pages

Enable -  set to "Yes", to include CMS pages in the sitemap. The CMS Pages sitemap file will be suffixed by with '_cms' eg. http://mystore.com/sitemaps/nl/sitemap_cms.xml

Use last modified date? - If "Yes" the date when the page was last modified will be used else the current date will be used

Frequency - choose how frequently the content of the CMS pages is likely to change: Always, Hourly, Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly, Never

Priority - enters a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Zero has the lowest priority. This indicates  the priority of CMS pages URLs relative to other URLs on your site

Exclude pages - select the CMS pages to exclude in the sitemap

Generation

Enable -  set to "Yes", the XML sitemap(s) will get generated automatically at the specified time

Frequency choose how frequently you would like to automatically generate the XML sitemap(s): Daily (Once in day), Weekly (Once in week), Monthly (Once in month)

Start time - choose the time to auto-generate the sitemap

Enable report notification -  if 'Yes', the sitemap notification by email is enabled

Email report recipient -  enter the email address(es) of the person(s) who is to receive the sitemap generation report. If more than one email, please separate them by a semicolon (;). Example: [email protected];[email protected]
The generated sitemap report will be emailed to any recipient(s) specified, every time the scheduled job generates a new sitemap, or if the sitemap is generated via the command line (CLI).

Email report sender - selects the sender of the email notification

Search Engine

Search engine to ping/submit sitemap -  select the search engine(s) to ping/submit your sitemap. Default: Google. If empty, the previously selected search engine will be set. To ping/submit your sitemap to the selected search engines, please go to : MARKETING → SEO XML Sitemap Splitter by Ulmod → Sitemap(s) , on Action column, select the "Submit Sitemap" option.

Manage Sitemap(s)

To manage the sitemaps, please go to Marketing ⟶ SEO XML Sitemap Splitter by Ulmod ⟶ Sitemap(s).

On this convenient grid, you can manage all sitemaps:

• Submit Sitemap to submit/ping the sitemap to the configured search engine
• Generate Sitemap to generate the sitemap
• Delete Sitemap to delete the sitemap

to add a new sitemap, click the ‘Add Sitemap’. There you can configure the sitemap:

Filename: - enter the filename of the sitemap. Example: sitemap.xml

Path: enter the path where the sitenap will be generated:

• If you use pub as the document root of your Magento 2 installation:
  - create a folder where the site map will be generated under pub/media/ directory. Example: if your pub directory is: /var/www/html/magento2/pub , create sitemaps folder under /var/www/html/magento2/media make sure that it is writeable and enter pub/media/sitemaps/ in the Path field.
• If you use the default web root as the document root of your Magento 2 installation:
  - create the folder where the site map will be generated under your default web root. Example: if your default web root is: /var/www/html/magento2 , create sitemaps folder under /var/www/html/magento2 , make sure that it is writeable and enter sitemaps/ in the Path field. Do not use app, bin. dev, generated, lib, phpserver, setup, update, var and vendor folders

Type: select the sitemap type to generate:

• Basic: The default sitemap, compatible with the major search engine. eg. Google, Bing etc. More details here;
• Basic with Image: The default sitemap including images, compatible with Google only. More details here. Please make sure to set "Add images into sitemap" field under STORES ⟶ Configuration ⟶ ULMOD EXTENSIONS ⟶ SEO XML Sitemap Splitter ⟶ Products Image section to Yes, to includes product images to the sitemap ;
• Mobile: The mobile sitemap, compatible with Google only. More details here;

Store View: - Choose the store view to which you want to generate the sitemap

Click "Save" button to save the sitemap. To save and generate the sitemap, click "Save & Generate", the sitemap will be generated and split. A summary of the successfully generated sitemap appear at the grid

Command Line(CLI) Sitemap(s) Generation

List command:

php bin/magento

There you will see all available xml sitemap splitter command under ulmod section

To list all available CLI sitemap generate & split options, run the command:

php bin/magento ulmod:xmlsitemapsplitter:generate --help

To generate & split a single sitemap, eg. sitemap with id 13, run the command:

php bin/magento ulmod:xmlsitemapsplitter:generate --id 13

To generate & split two specific sitemaps, eg. sitemap with ids 13 and 15, run the command:

php bin/magento ulmod:xmlsitemapsplitter:generate --id 13,15

To generate & split all available sitemaps, run the command:

php bin/magento ulmod:xmlsitemapsplitter:generate