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title: Sitemap Template
# linktitle: Sitemap
description: Hugo ships with a built-in template file observing the v0.9 of the Sitemap Protocol, but you can override this template if needed.
date: 2017-02-01
publishdate: 2017-02-01
lastmod: 2017-02-01
categories: [templates]
keywords: [sitemap, xml, templates]
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parent: "templates"
weight: 160
weight: 160
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aliases: [/layout/sitemap/,/templates/sitemap/]
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---
A single Sitemap template is used to generate the `sitemap.xml` file.
Hugo automatically comes with this template file. *No work is needed on
the users' part unless they want to customize `sitemap.xml`.*
A sitemap is a `Page` and therefore has all the [page variables][pagevars] available to use in this template along with Sitemap-specific ones:
`.Sitemap.ChangeFreq`
: The page change frequency
`.Sitemap.Priority`
: The priority of the page
`.Sitemap.Filename`
: The sitemap filename
If provided, Hugo will use `/layouts/sitemap.xml` instead of the internal `sitemap.xml` template that ships with Hugo.
## Sitemap Templates
Hugo has built-on Sitemap templates, but you can provide your own if needed, in either `layouts/sitemap.xml` or `layouts/_default/sitemap.xml`.
For multilingual sites, we also create a Sitemap index. You can provide a custom layout for that in either `layouts/sitemapindex.xml` or `layouts/_default/sitemapindex.xml`.
## Hugo’s sitemap.xml
This template respects the version 0.9 of the [Sitemap Protocol](https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html).
```xml
{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\" ?>" | safeHTML }}
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
{{ range .Data.Pages }}
<url>
<loc>{{ .Permalink }}</loc>{{ if not .Lastmod.IsZero }}
<lastmod>{{ safeHTML ( .Lastmod.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" ) }}</lastmod>{{ end }}{{ with .Sitemap.ChangeFreq }}
<changefreq>{{ . }}</changefreq>{{ end }}{{ if ge .Sitemap.Priority 0.0 }}
<priority>{{ .Sitemap.Priority }}</priority>{{ end }}{{ if .IsTranslated }}{{ range .Translations }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate"
hreflang="{{ .Lang }}"
href="{{ .Permalink }}"
/>{{ end }}
</url>
{{ end }}
</urlset>
```
## Hugo's sitemapindex.xml
This is used to create a Sitemap index in multilingual mode:
```xml
{{ printf "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\" standalone=\"yes\" ?>" | safeHTML }}
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
{{ range . }}
<sitemap>
<loc>{{ .SitemapAbsURL }}</loc>
{{ if not .LastChange.IsZero }}
<lastmod>{{ .LastChange.Format "2006-01-02T15:04:05-07:00" | safeHTML }}</lastmod>
{{ end }}
</sitemap>
{{ end }}
</sitemapindex>
```
## Configure `sitemap.xml`
Defaults for `<changefreq>`, `<priority>` and `filename` values can be set in the site's config file, e.g.:
{{< code-toggle file="config" >}}
[sitemap]
changefreq = "monthly"
priority = 0.5
filename = "sitemap.xml"
{{</ code-toggle >}}
The same fields can be specified in an individual content file's front matter in order to override the value assigned to that piece of content at render time.
[pagevars]: /variables/page/