# Seeking Thoughts: What to do when a page doesn’t need to be built **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [June 4, 2019, 8:34am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/seeking-thoughts-what-to-do-when-a-page-doesn-t-need-to-be-built/19038 "2019-06-04T08:34:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3

**Author:** ![HenrySkup](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.gohugo.io/henryskup/32/8183_2.png) [@HenrySkup](https://discourse.gohugo.io/u/HenrySkup)\ **Post date:** [June 4, 2019, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/seeking-thoughts-what-to-do-when-a-page-doesn-t-need-to-be-built/19038/3 "2019-06-04T08:50:27Z")

def take a look at Page Bundles as @alexandros suggested. All of this ill probably have to do with your editorial workflow. I had a situation where I wanted to, in a list page, list out the titles of pages that were still a draft with then intention that as they were ready to be published that the Hugo would not only build the pages but link to them. In this case, I also wanted to control the directory structure in a way that (i believe) a headless page bundle would not allow. Below is the solution that I can up with: > [@\[SOLVED\] Get Draft Front Matter without Generating Page?](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/solved-get-draft-front-matter-without-generating-page/18259/3): > > Hmmm, interesting – that could work in another context. I’m building this for Forestry, so I don’t think that it would fit within their [current] editing workflow. I feel that this could be fairly useful and since Hugo is already going through all the pages to check if draft = true or not, I could imagine that it could easily store all front matter / content, and then filters out all the drafts when it writes to public/ --- _[View the full topic](https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/seeking-thoughts-what-to-do-when-a-page-doesn-t-need-to-be-built/19038)._