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Django 2 by Example

You're reading from   Django 2 by Example Build powerful and reliable Python web applications from scratch

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788472487
Length 526 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Antonio Melé Antonio Melé
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Preface 1. Building a Blog Application 2. Enhancing Your Blog with Advanced Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Extending Your Blog Application 4. Building a Social Website 5. Sharing Content in Your Website 6. Tracking User Actions 7. Building an Online Shop 8. Managing Payments and Orders 9. Extending Your Shop 10. Building an E-Learning Platform 11. Rendering and Caching Content 12. Building an API 13. Going Live 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Adding a sitemap to your site

Django comes with a sitemap framework, which allows you to generate sitemaps for your site dynamically. A sitemap is an XML file that tells search engines the pages of your website, their relevance, and how frequently they are updated. Using a sitemap, you will help crawlers that index your website's content.

The Django sitemap framework depends on django.contrib.sites, which allows you to associate objects to particular websites that are running with your project. This comes handy when you want to run multiple sites using a single Django project. To install the sitemap framework, you will need to activate both the sites and the sitemap applications in our project. Edit the settings.py file of your project and add django.contrib.sites and django.contrib.sitemaps to the INSTALLED_APPS setting. Also, define a new setting for the site ID, as follows...

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