Through Catalog > Google sitemap I have just generated a sitemap.xml file.
The file itself works perfect. My problem though is, that the file also contains inactive categories.
I can't seem to find any options to exclude these inactive categories from my generated sitemap.xml file.
Do anyone know how this can be solved?
I am using Magento ver. 1.7.0.2
Try this.
Edit the app/design/frontend/your_package/your_theme/template/catalog/seo/tree.phtml file in your theme. Add an if condition just after the foreach loop which checks for activeness of the $_item.
<?php $_items = $this->getCollection(); ?>
<?php if($_items->getSize()): ?>
<ul class="sitemap">
<?php foreach ($_items as $_item): ?>
<?php if( $_item->is_active ) : ?>
<li class="level-<?php echo $this->getLevel($_item) ?>" <?php echo $this->getLevel($_item)?'style="padding-left:' . $this->getLevel($_item, 2) . '0px;"':'' ?>><a href="<?php echo $this->getItemUrl($_item) ?>"><?php echo $_item->name ?></a></li>
<?php endif; ?>
<?php endforeach; ?>
</ul>
<?php else: ?>
<p class="note-msg">
<?php echo $this->__('There are no %s available.', $this->getItemsTitle()); ?>
</p>
<?php endif ?>
On your frontend when you access this URL you will see only active categories
http://project_name/catalog/seo_sitemap/category
But if you look at the sitemap by accessing the below URL you will see disabled categories too
http://project_name/sitemap.xml
The reason is **sitemap.xml** is already generated when the category was active. You have to again generate a sitemap.xml file after disabling any category to reflect the active categories only.
