Exclude Drafts from feed

[jeremiemartinez]

Hi there,

What do you think about filtering future posts from the feed.xml ?

To give you some context, most of the time I write a new article, I publish it with a future date, it is not listed and I send direct link to friends for proof reading. My problem is that even if my article has a future date, it still appears in the feed.xml...

Would you be willing to accept a PR if I work on it ? Is there any other way to filter posts appearing in the feed.xml ?

Thanks,

[pathawks]

I have also published a post “publically” for the purpose of sending it to somebody to proofread.

I’m not sure if future date is the way to do this, seems like that could lead to some trouble if time zones or something caused Jekyll to improperly exclude a new post from the feed.

Perhaps a way to explicitly exclude a post from the feed, similar to sitemap: false?

[jeremiemartinez]

So we could have something like: feed: false that could be added to the frontmatter of each post and then filtered in the for loop in feed.xml. Is that what you mean ? It would also be a good solution since I understand your concerns about time zones.

[pathawks]

So we could have something like: feed: false that could be added to the frontmatter of each post and then filtered in the for loop in feed.xml. Is that what you mean ?

👍

[benbalter]

@jeremiemartinez how do you prevent future posts from appearing in your site's human-readable index?

I'm wondering if rather than have the user specify the feature they want ("don't include this in the sitemap", "don't include this in the feed"), the user should expose intend ("this shouldn't be public"), and the two plugins should respond accordingly.

[jeremiemartinez]

@benbalter Well, my approach is very similar that the one advised by @pathawks. However, don't judge me, this is not the best code I wrote...

First, I add future: true to my _config.yml.
Then, I declare in the frontmatter of my post: public: 1
Finally, in my index.html, I loop and filter:

{% for post in paginator.posts %}
   {% if post.public != 1  %}
        […]
   {% endif %}
 {% endfor %}

Your idea about a public flag that could be used for every plugin is great but it would require to directly modify jekyll to expose such an API I guess :/

[pathawks]

Jekyll has a Drafts feature already: is there any way in Liquid to detect if a post is a draft?

I can think of multiple reasons why a public page/post should be excluded from a sitemap (even if not excluded from the public view of a site), but the only reason I can think of to exclude a post from the site feed is if it is just a draft snd not yet “public.”

I am just trying to think through this aloud.

[jeremiemartinez]

Draft would be a good solution but it seems that Github does not deploy drafts so I cannot ask friends for proofreading unfortunately.

[jeremiemartinez]

Sorry I am completely wrong with my last comment. Just need to add show_drafts flag to my _config.yml. So knowing if a post is a draft matches our need.

[pathawks]

I wasn’t thinking about GitHub Pages. That makes things a bit trickier, doesn’t it.

[jeremiemartinez]

Well, as I corrected in my previous comment, with show_drafts Github Pages does work.

I looked for a way to know whether a post is a draft or not. We can with something like:

{% if post.draft == false %}

Or

{% unless post.draft %}

What do you think about this solution?

[KingScooty]

{% for post in site.posts %}
    {% unless post.draft %}
    {% endunless %}
{% endfor %}

[jeremiemartinez]

Fixed by #95.