I ran into an issue trying to generate a sitemap.xml file with Django’s built in sitemap view. After reading the documentation over a few times I still received the error:
Django sitemap: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘values’For some reason, it wasn’t obvious to me what the confusion was, but clearly others have encountered the issue as well. A quick google search turned up a question on StackOverflow. User KuB had asked a question which looked very similar to the one I had just experienced.
After a bit of research and experimentation I was able to resolve the issue and came up with a bit of code that resolved the issue for me:
The full coding sample that I used looks like the following:
sitemap.py file:
from django.contrib.sitemaps import Sitemap
from articles.models import Article
class BlogSitemap(Sitemap):
changefreq = "never"
priority = 0.5
def items(self):
return Article.objects.filter(is_active=True)
def lastmod(self, obj):
return obj.publish_date
urls.py file:
from sitemap import BlogSitemap
# a dictionary of sitemaps
sitemaps = {
'blog': BlogSitemap,
}
urlpatterns += patterns (''
#...<snip out other url patterns>...
(r'^sitemap\.xml$', 'django.contrib.sitemaps.views.sitemap', {'sitemaps': sitemaps}),
)
You can find the full thread out on StackOverflow here.
