I’m experimenting with making my draft posts public (for easier unadvertised sharing), and thought I’d writeup my workflow, on the off chance it’s useful.
All feedback is welcome. Also, thanks to @davidsneighbour for early review
From the summary:
I sometimes pass around blog post drafts to friends and family for review. It’s usually by email or text, which is fine. Yet it would be cool if I could give them a real link. A discreet draft , if you will.
I did a bit of searching on the Hugo Discourse forums, and of course, I was not the first person with this idea. A few others had implemented custom solutions, but I didn’t see a writeup of how to do it from scratch. When encountering a knowledge gap like this, my tutorial-spidey-sense tingles, and I knew it was time to take a stab.
The sitemap would be the next place that might show these posts (depending on the used template). As far as I understand the default template might show these draft posts due to the buildDrafts setting.
I will play around with the system tomorrow, no time now But we might want to add to the internal templates, that drafts are never included explicitly.
Have a look at GitHub - dnb-org/dnb-hugo-robots - I will add disallows via frontmatter by post/page in a bit and also check for frontmatter-draft properties. I did modify dnb-hugo-sitemap to check for draft status already earlier. The idea in general is great for publishing workflows without too much hassle or “external websites helping”.
But we might want to add to the internal templates, that drafts are never included explicitly.