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February 23, 2022
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it would be useful to have a sitemap generator directly in dreamweaver

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Correct answer Paul-M

Do a Google search for site map generator, there are tools about these that can create a sitemap by crawling your site...

There is also this: https://www.dmxzone.com/go/10538/google-sitemap-generator-2/ but I would check with the developers if it works with the latest Dreamweaver versions

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Do a Google search for site map generator, there are tools about these that can create a sitemap by crawling your site...

There is also this: https://www.dmxzone.com/go/10538/google-sitemap-generator-2/ but I would check with the developers if it works with the latest Dreamweaver versions

Paul-M - Community Expert

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Nice catch !

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mauro#net-eng.irtAuthor

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Thank you very much.

The point lies in the fact that every time you change or update a page in DW, in theory it should regenerate a sitemap and put it online. And this requires: creating the sitemap, and doing FTP. It would be convenient if the system provided for an automatic update of the sitemap of the site, so as to only have to do the FTP without resorting to other tools, which sometimes do not generate a complete xml and which must then be revised and fixed. Adobe Muse, for example, put a new sitemap online at each FTP: it was a convenient function, which would also fit in DW.

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I fully understand your expectation, and it is true that this would be a very practical feature, as it was for Muse.

Anyway, for sites not often updated by various authors I often use external online tools (the one indicated by @Nancy OShea is very good).

When I use a CMS there are all kind of plugin very well adapted for each needs (XML, RSS etc...).

In an other side, as @Nancy OShea points out, a PHP script can do the job on the server side. The only problem is that if your updates are sporadic, the script can quickly become invasive, well invasive is a bit of an exaggeration too.

There are two scripts that I had to use :

a first one , https://github.com/tristangoossens/php-sitemap-generator that is very useful on basic sites and not very needy,
and another one, https://github.com/icamys/php-sitemap-generator that is more adapted to complex sites, multilingual and needing more specific attention (moreover it is basically designed to be used with composer).

But again, everything is contextual and it is true that your expectation would have been very useful for sites maintained through DW.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

No need for one. Use this online site map generator. It's free.

https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

Site maps are helpful for new sites so search engines crawlers can index your site. Google Docs tells you how to do it.

https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/build-sitemap

Make your sitemap available to Google by adding it to your robots.txt file or directly submitting it to Search Console.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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It's a feature that was present, a long time ago, in Dreamweaver, that worked only on the real first pages, then that was not maintained anymore as soon as the web became really dynamic, moreover it remained in a proprietary format and didn't allow export (if I remember correctly).... finally, it has been removed.

It is true that there are many automatic generators online today, and this is the way to go, because DW has gone into minimum maintenance mode... no more new features will be added.

it would be useful to have a sitemap generator directly in dreamweaver

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