Creating Dynamic Sitemap with Loopers

[michigancreative]

Hey!

I am trying to create a page that will serve as my sitemap. Ideally, I would like it to display all the “pages” of the site, and display them in their parent/child relationship. (kinda like below) There are also a number of specific pages I would need to exclude from this output (the sitemap page being one, and then an array of several others).

Ex:

• home
• about
  • staff
    • management
  • locations
• contact

Is this something that is easily done through Loopers? I’ve been struggling for a while to get an output of the current looper items immediate children.

I’m currently trying:

Parent Column with Looper Provider - Query String
post_type=page&orderby=title&posts_per_page=-1&order=ASC&post__not_in[]={{dc:post:id}}
Div level 1 as Looper Consumer
Div level 2 with Looper Provider - Query String
child_of={{dc:post:id}}
Div level 3 as Looper Consumer

But it isn’t working, nor do I even think my first query is correct, because it displays all the pages, including pages which are children pages. Any help would be great.

Thanks!

[michigancreative]

Hey I figured it out! This is what I got:

1. Looper Provider on Sitemap Layer:
   post_type=page&post_parent=0&post_status=publish&post__not_in[]={{dc:post:id}}&orderby=title&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1

2. Looper Consumer on Level 1 Page using conditions to remove my excluded pages - I had to remove all pages with a certain strings in the title
   The conditions I used were something like:

   1. string1 [not in] {{dc:post:title}} [and]
   2. string2 [not in] {{dc:post:title}} [and]
   3. string3 [not in] {{dc:post:title}} [and]
   4. etc…

3. Looper Provider on Level 2 Page which is also set as the Looper Consumer (copied for level 3, and 4)
   post_type=page&post_parent={{dc:post:id}}&post_status=publish&orderby=title&order=ASC&posts_per_page=-1

Hope this helps someone else! I know there are plugins that can do this, but I’d rather it all be within cornerstone.

[tristup]

Hi @michigancreative,

Glad that you are able to figure this out and share it with others.

Thanks