Use your sitemap instead

Your sitemap is a list of every post on your blog. With it, the writers can still link to your real posts. Recipe cards and @ mentions need the WordPress connection, so they won't work from a sitemap.

What is a sitemap?

A file your blog makes on its own that lists every page on your site. Most food blogs have one whether you know it or not. Your SEO plugin (like Yoast or Rank Math) creates it in the background.

Step 1: Find your sitemap

Open a new browser tab and try these one at a time, replacing yoursite.com with your blog's address. The first one that loads a page full of links is yours.

1. yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml
2. yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
3. yoursite.com/wp-sitemap.xml
4. yoursite.com/sitemap-index.xml

Shortcut: go to yoursite.com/robots.txt. Most sites list their sitemap at the bottom, on a line that starts with Sitemap:.

Step 2: Find your post and category sitemaps

Your sitemap usually lists a few smaller sitemaps, like these:

• https://yoursite.com/post-sitemap.xml
• https://yoursite.com/page-sitemap.xml
• https://yoursite.com/category-sitemap.xml
• https://yoursite.com/post_tag-sitemap.xml

You only need two:

• The post sitemap lists every blog post (your recipes). Look for post-sitemap.xml or posts-sitemap.xml. If there's more than one (post-sitemap2.xml and so on), use the main sitemap address from Step 1 instead, so you get them all.
• The category sitemap lists your category pages, like /breakfast/ or /dinner-recipes/. Look for category-sitemap.xml.

Step 3: Add them in Food Blog Studio

1. Go to Personalization and open the Your blog card.
2. Click Not on WordPress? Use your sitemap instead.
3. Paste your post sitemap into Post sitemap URL and your category sitemap into Category sitemap URL.
4. Click Import sitemap.

Your list then refreshes on its own every day.

It says it can't fetch my sitemap

Some hosts block us from reading the sitemap. You can paste it in instead:

1. Open your post sitemap in your browser, select everything on the page, and copy it.
2. In the sitemap form, click Can't fetch? Paste the sitemap instead.
3. Paste it into Post sitemap. A plain list of your post links, one per line, works too. Do the same for Category sitemap if you want.
4. Click Import sitemap.

If your post sitemap is split into several files, paste all of them into the same box.