The built-in option for Magento simply takes all the products and makes the sitemap. Which will work for 95% of the stores out there. But if your working on a really custom shop you might want to create your own. This one shop I’m working on has all Configurable Products so I do not want the simple products showing in my sitemap.
I also want to turn off categories like “featured” that I use for sliders and such.
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Create File to Overwrite
Create a file called “my_sitemap.xml” in your root.
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Download Script
You can download the freshest code from our GitHub Gist.
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Change Site Source
Enter Your.com in the Base Variable
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Run.
Make sure your Flat File Index is updated in the Magento Admin. Then, either run it manually when you make a change or set up a cron job.