Feature Request: Blacklists

[imp1sh]

In wikijs you can set fine grained privileges for sites and paths.
When there are pages that cannot be seen by the public but only by authorized personel, they still appear in the sitemap.xml.
Please offer a environment variable that carries a list of paths that won't appear in the sitemap.

[Philipinho]

I will create time to work on this.
PRs are welcomed too.

[Philipinho]

What do you think of tag-based exclusion? I suggest implementing an environment variable that specifies tags for exclusion.

For instance, if you want to exclude pages marked as private or secret, you would set EXCLUDED_TAGS=private, secret in the environment variable.
Then, simply tag any new pages you don't want indexed with private or secret to automatically exclude them from the sitemap.

This method seems more clearer and easier to manage compared to editing paths, as it eliminates the need to update the environment variable each time you create new pages.

[imp1sh]

Usually it's not single pages that are set to private but paths. I'd much rather see an environment variable (list) where the user can set paths that should not be included in the sitemap.xml.

[Philipinho]

If we have EXCLUDED_PATHS=/path/to/marketing, should it exclude all pages down the path?
For example /path/to/marketing/sales/schedule is excluded too because it is under marketing.

[imp1sh]

If you'd ask me I'd say yes, block everything below a given path, except when there are whitelists that allow it (override). Like it is handled in robots.txt.

[Philipinho]

I will work on the EXCLUDED_PATHS option soon. Thank you for your input.

[imp1sh]

Hi Philipinho are you still working on this?

[Philipinho]

I didn't get to work on it as I am now building a new real-time collaborative wiki software, Docmost.

Do you have an immediate need for this feature?

[imp1sh]

Well kind of. My website keeps posting pages that are actually not supposed to be visible to the public. I mean there is access restrictions in place but I would rather not publish whole subtrees in the first place ;-)