[Sitemap] Allow filtering in sitemap creation

[laurenskling]

Feature request

Summary

I'd like to be able to set filters in the sitemap.

Why is it needed?

I've created my own multi-site setup. All my sitemapable content has a sites relation, which limits that (for example) Page to a certain website. I'd like to create sitemaps that take this relation filter into account.

Suggested solution(s)

I don't know.. I guess I would need to have runtime sitemap generation with a query param? Because setting these filters up front sound like a hassle... How do I make settings for multiple sitemaps from this Strapi instance?

[boazpoolman]

There was an open PR for sitemap filtering in the standalone sitemap plugin, see pluginpal/strapi-plugin-sitemap#109.

I would love to see this ported to the Webtools addon for v5. It's def a feature that's needed.

On another note: multiple sitemaps is something that is technically possible in the plugin, but lacks the interface to support it.
That would be another feature request IMO.

[laurenskling]

I've decided (for now) to create the sitemap at the Nextjs side of things. Based on the /api/webtools/url-alias output. Fetching all those pages afterwards, I can do my filters there. So my need for this functionality is gone.

But we can leave this feature request open as it is something that probably more people would like to do.

[boazpoolman]

We're one step closer to making this happen. We now allow the ability to create multiple sitemaps starting from version 1.3.0.

Next step would be to allow the user to define some sort of filter for the sitemap. Allowing you to filter out the URLs based on your own logic.