Creating a pseudo-section for "drafts"

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Hi folks, I am planning to compile a site with --buildDrafts, but

  • I don’t want the drafts to be included in section/list.html template by default
    (I guess I can use {{ range where .Pages "draft" "!=" true }} to filter the posts in pagination etc).

  • I want drafts to be still compiled to the output, but instead of /blog/hello-world, I want the draft posts to go to /drafts/hello-world/. (I’m not sure how to do this.)

An option: I can create a new section (content/drafts/, in addition to content/posts/) but then I wouldn’t be using draft: true anymore.

What would be your tip to get where I want the easiest way? (I’m still new to Hugo architecture so haven’t fully wrapped my mind about the possibilities yet.)

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Instead of using the draft param, you could use the type param and set it to something custom. Then in your templates, filter on where "Type" == "foo"

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Thanks. How do I then somehow create a /drafts/ directory with these posts compiled into it based on that “type” parameter?

4

Create a list template at

layouts/draft/list.html
5

Also, configure the permalink for type draft to be what you want.

6

From Hugo 0.60 (hopefully) this will be more straight forward as these changes are planned:

  • recursive draft behaviour
  • new nolist and norender flags that can be set in markdown, can be made recursive by putting them in the cascade section
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Hi, I just came across a few threads (like List all posts but drafts or Keeping drafts out of the rss feed), I’m still fuzzy on how to actually make it happen.

I would like to build future and draft posts content, but not list them in the usual lists (tags, rss, posts), however I would like to list then in a specific path (e.g. host.tld/d/). So I’d like to hide draft posts anywhere exept when explicitly asked.

  1. Currently I’m having difficulty to just create a list in a /d/ path, I have tried various combinations
  • content/d/_index.md or without
+++ 
draft = true 
title = "Drafts" 
+++
  • layouts/d/index.html or layouts/d/list.html
{{ define "header" }}
    {{ partial "header.html" . }}
{{ end }}

{{ define "content" }}
    {{ partial "drafts/content.html" . }}
{{ end }}

{{ define "footer" }}
    {{ partial "page-list/footer.html" . }}
{{ end }}

<!-- https://gohugo.io/templates/lists/ -->
  • layouts/partials/drafts/content.html
<span class="section__title">{{ .Title }}</span>
<ul class="posts drafts">
    {{ $paginator := .Paginate (where (where .Site.Pages "Type" "in" "posts") "Draft" true ) }}
    {{ partial "pagination.html" . }}
    <br/>
    {{ range $paginator.Pages }}
    <li>
        <span class="list__title--small">
            <time class="hidden-tablet">{{ .Date.Format (.Site.Params.dateformat | default "Jan 02 '06") }}</time>
            <a href="{{ .RelPermalink }}" {{if .Draft}}class="draft"{{end}}>{{ .Title }}</a>
        </span>
    </li>
    {{ end }}
</ul>

But of course the given setup is wrong, either the HTML is empty or the page only contains what’s _index.md but nothing else. Did I missed something in https://gohugo.io/templates/lists/.

But then even if it works I’ll probably have to go through every template to filter drafts right ?