Django provides a sitemap framwork. To enable it:

1. add django.contrib.sitemaps to INSTALLED_APPS and the syncdb

2. add (r'^sitemap.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}) to urls.py

   from project.sitemap import sitemaps
   ...
   url('^$', home, name='home'),
   url(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}) 
    ...
   

3. Create a sitemap class according to the app in a file called sitemap.py:

   from django.core.urlrsolvers import reverse
   from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap
   from blog.models import Entry
   
   class ViewSitemap(Siremap):
   """Reverse static views for XML sitemap."""
       def items(self):
           # Return list of url names for views to include in sitemap
           return ['home']
   
       def location(self, item):
            return reverse(item)
   
   class BlogSitemap(Sitemap):
       changefreq = "never"
       priority = 0.5
   
      def items(self):
         return Entry.objects.filter(status=1)
   
      def lastmod(self.obj):
         return obj.pub_date
   
   sitemaps = {'views': ViewSitemap,
       'blog_posts': BlogSitemap,
   }
   

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