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28.3.1 Post Sitemap

We therefore need a Sitemap subclass. We can start with our blog app, creating a sitemaps.py file where we import our tools, as shown in Example 28.22.

Example 28.22: Project Code

blog/sitemaps.py in b1f09978d6

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1   from datetime import date 2 3   from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap 4 5   from .models import Post

We then declare our subclass in Example 28.23. The goal is to provide a list of all of the pages in our blog app. Because we’ve implemented get_absolute_url() on Post, this turns out to be surprisingly easy: we just need to return a list of Post objects in the items() method. We can also tell the search engine when the Post instance was modified thanks to the lastmod() method. ...