---
type: Article
title: Remove 404 file from sitemap.xml in 11ty
description: How to remove your 404 file from you mxl sitemap.
resource: https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2023-02-06-remove-404-file-from-sitemap-xml-in-11ty/
tags: [Shorticles, Eleventy, SEO]
timestamp: 2023-02-06
---

I realised that the sitemap.xml file was listing the 404 page - we really don't want that in there as the search engines don't want it. [The 11ty sitemap.njk file](/post/2023-07-06-lastmod-in-xml-sitemap-for-11ty/) had the answer in its frontmatter for any page you don't want in a collection, and that includes the All collection, I added this in the frontmatter of the 404 page:

```
eleventyExcludeFromCollections: true

```

And then any page I want to manually jeep out of the sitemap I can add *sitemapIgnore: true* to the frontmatter.

[Read full article](https://www.simoncox.com/short-articles/2023-02-06-remove-404-file-from-sitemap-xml-in-11ty/)