Thanks @irkode for explaining with your example on how to use the cascade. I tried using the snippet from issue in 2023 ( How to set all md files front matter draft false default ,in config file or other method? - #4 by jmooring ) before I created the script but I could not get it to work reliably (sometimes a .md will still be published when it didn’t have the draft parameter). I think I’ll start using the cascade snippet in my Hugo config and add a section to the blog post I wrote, and use the external script as a fallback for edge cases. Thank you so much!