https://wehrend.github.io/tags/github-pages/Recent content in GitHub Pages on Bits & pieces - Sven WehrendHugoenThu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://wehrend.github.io/til/repair-hugo-sitemap/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 10:00:00 +0000https://wehrend.github.io/til/repair-hugo-sitemap/<div class="sect2"> <h3 id="_the_problem">The Problem</h3> <div class="paragraph"> <p>When checking the sitemap on a Hugo website (e.g., hosted on GitHub Pages), you might occasionally land on an HTML page (<code>/sitemap/</code>) where all URLs are jammed together without formatting or separating tags. Search engine crawlers (like Google) fail to parse such invalid sitemaps and will reject them entirely.</p> </div> </div> <div class="sect2"> <h3 id="_the_solution">The Solution</h3> <div class="paragraph"> <p>You can force Hugo to generate a clean, valid XML sitemap by providing a custom layout template.</p> </div>