Creating draft posts in Jekyll

How to create and develop with draft posts in Jekyll

If you want the ability to write an article over the course of a few days and ensure it’s version controlled but not publicly visible, here’s where drafts come in useful!

You will want to create a folder called _drafts/ in the root of your project. In that you can place your draft article using the same naming convention as you would for something in your _posts folder (i.e. 2024_04_30_my_article.md). This will ensure the article doesn’t show up on your site.

To work on a draft article locally run jekyll serve --draft, this will show your draft article so you can view it locally on the frontend.

When you’re ready to publish your article just move it from the _drafts/ folder to the _posts/ folder and deploy.

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