Preparing paginated sitemaps for search engines

Sitemaps protocol tells search engines about all different pages on your website. Usually, it's a single sitemap.xml file that informs what can be indexed and how often. If you have lots of different pages on your website, you can also split and paginate the XML file to render each list of resources faster.

In this recipe, we will show you how to create a paginated sitemap to use in your Django website.

Getting ready

For this and further recipes, we need to extend the music app and add list and detail views there:

1. Create the views.py file with the following content:

# myproject/apps/music/views.py
from django.views.generic import ListView, DetailView
from django.utils.translation...