Sitemap, URL slugs and links

contractor-chron

Hello, I am having difficulty figuring out how to create links and connect them to separate pages in my site. I have a domain that I connected within gitlabs, but I am trying to make more than just a homepage. How would one connect individual pages made in Silex to urls with the domain name with a slug?

contractor-chron

Sorry I just tested the page title name and it links to the individual page. Apologies for the post. I guess the other question would be how to create a site map to link to google search console for indexing?

lexoyo

hey that's fun, I had a question about links this morning by email, and I made this page more complete with info about links and anchors: pages and links. What do you think?

And concerning the sitemap, i have been working on this but for now it is not automatic, there are manual steps. Please vote for the feature request "Automatically generate sitemap.xml after site publish"

If you want I can give you instructions so you can add the sitemap to your site today, or you prefer to wait for this feature to be implemented? It should be 1 line of code to paste in the .gitlab-ci.yml file of your gitlab project, do you see where this is?

contractor-chron

Apologies yes the email was from me. I am just trying to quickly create a lead gen site didn't mean to message in so many places.

Totally fine to wait for sitemap implementation. My site is so small for now it looks like I can just submit a text file with the url links to google search console for the time being.

I would be curious what the code would be to insert if it is an easy addition. I did find the gitlab file.

lexoyo

Here is the file content

# silexOverwrite: true
# You will want to remove these lines if you customize your build process
# Silex will overwrite this file unless you remove these lines
# This is the default build process for plain eleventy sites
image: node:20
pages:
  stage: deploy
  environment: production
  script:
    - npx @11ty/eleventy@v3.0.0-alpha.20 --input=public --output=_site
    - mkdir -p public/css public/assets && cp -R public/css public/assets _site/
    - rm -rf public && mv _site public
    - echo "The site will be deployed to $CI_PAGES_URL"
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - public
  rules:
    - if: '$CI_COMMIT_TAG'
    - if: '$CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "trigger"'

you need to change # silexOverwrite: true to # silexOverwrite: false so that it will not be reset automatically by silex at next publication
edit the file in gitlab: click the button "edit in place" like in this screenshot:
add this line - npx @silexlabs/sitemapgen -s _site -o _site -u $CI_PAGES_URL at line 12 like so:
back to silex, click "publish" again

there should be a /sitemap.xml after the build is complete