0035523: Sitemap support

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update
0035523	mantisbt	feature	public	2025-02-28 12:33	2025-04-03 02:30

Reporter	raspopov	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	feature	Reproducibility	always
Status	acknowledged	Resolution	open
Platform	Microsoft	OS	Windows Server	OS Version	2022
Product Version	2.27.0

Summary	0035523: Sitemap support
Description	MantisBT content, even with public access, tends to be poorly indexed by search engines due to the lack of a global list of issues. To solve this problem, we can try using Sitemap technology. Follows discussion in forums: https://mantisbt.org/forums/viewtopic.php?p=81300
Additional Information	According to the description of sitemap, this file should be located in the root relative to the indexed files contained in it, so the implementation of this functionality in the form of a plugin is apparently impossible. There is also the problem of publishing the sitemap file. It is assumed that the webmaster will do the initial publishing of the file manually, using the search engine console. There also seems to be an HTML5 tag `<link rel=“sitemap”>` that allows you to publish the sitemap file directly from the page. And there is a way, described in the official Google help, to do this using the `Sitemap:` instruction of the `robots.txt` file.
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raspopov 2025-02-28 12:38 reporter ~0069934	PR (draft): https://github.com/mantisbt/mantisbt/pull/2111

raspopov 2025-03-19 12:09 reporter ~0070002	I need to get links to the pages used by MantisBT, and to do that I need to pull the sidebar code from `layout_api.php`, for example, as a separate API.

raspopov 2025-03-20 12:48 reporter ~0070009 Last edited: 2025-03-20 12:51	There is another issue with page caching in MantisBT. In order for the browser and search engines to work properly, the "Last-Modified" and "If-Modified-Since" headers must be set and handled correctly. However, MantisBT pages use collapsible widgets that stop working if the page is not refreshed every time, because the state is stored in cookies, which is a strange choice... And cookies are ignored for anonymous users (including search engines), and accordingly widgets stop minimizing...