But I used the exact code and it did not work. I was hoping Perch would be OK to use without knowing any PHP as I am a Designer not a coder.

For now I will have to leave the blog posts out!

Hi Sarah,

Clive has written a good run-through of creating sitemaps that include Blog posts, you can find it here:

https://www.cvwdesign.com/blog/creating-google-sitemaps-with-perch

Hope that helps a bit

Hi Mike

Thanks for the link and that makes more sense and puts things into more content for me. I am still having issues though, here is what I now have after following your guide.

So I have a sitemap.php file in the root with the following code...

<?php
    header('Content-type: application/xml');
    include('perch/runtime.php');
    perch_pages_navigation(array(
        'template'=>'sitemap.html',
        'flat' => true,
        'hide-extensions' => true
      ));

    perch_blog_custom(array(
         'template' => 'sitemap-blog.html',
         'sort'=>'postDateTime',
         'sort-order'=>'DESC',
         'count' => 3000
     ));
echo '</urlset>';
?>

Then I have a sitemap.html file saved in templates/navigation with the following code...

<perch:before><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
</perch:before>

<url>
    <loc>https://www.whittledesignstudio.com<perch:pages id="pagePath" /></loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>1.00</priority>
</url>

<perch:after>
</urlset>
</perch:after>

And a separate file called sitemap-blog.html saved in templates/blog with the following code...

<perch:before><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="https://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
</perch:before>

    <url>
     <loc>https://www.whittledesignstudio.com<perch:blog id="postURL" /></loc>
     <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
     <priority>0.80</priority>
    </url>

<perch:after>
</urlset>
</perch:after>

No when I go to https://www.whittledesignstudio.com/sitemap.php I get errors.

Hi Drew,

This is what the instructions say to do on the link provided by Mike.

I have one file in the root called sitemap.php with the following code...

<?php header('Content-type: application/xml'); include('perch/runtime.php'); perch_pages_navigation(array( 'template'=>'sitemap.html', 'flat' => true, 'hide-extensions' => true ));

perch_blog_custom(array(
     'template' => 'sitemap-blog.html',
     'sort'=>'postDateTime',
     'sort-order'=>'DESC',
     'count' => 3000
 ));

echo '</urlset>'; ?>

The two html files it refers to are separate files in the templates folder as per the instructions from Mike.

I just do not know why this has to be so complicated!

Thanks Mike, that has done it!

I just did not know what went where as I am not too familiar with PHP etc...

Thanks for your help

No worries - if you get chance mark that as the solution, I am trying to catch Drew's points score :)

Thanks Mike, just done it