Filter drafts

[pgstef]

Hi,

I saw in a few closed issues that drafts posts should be filtered out from the generated feed xml. Is it true?
I use github-pages to build my blog, and the show_drafts: true property works using {% if post.draft %} to preview the posts in a drafts section.

However, those drafts are automatically published in the feed.xml too. Is it normal? How to prevent it?
Is it possible to write a custom feed xml file that would automatically be updated when adding new posts (with specific tags)?

I'm probably missing something here.
Many thanks in advance for your help.

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[pgstef]

Issue still occurring. Please have a look at it ?

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[meribold]

Drafts used to be excluded from the generated feed. It seems #316 changed this. I just updated jekyll-feed and was surprised to see my drafts pop up in my feed reader.

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[meribold]

This is still relevant. I think the options are reverting #316 or adding some kind of configuration flag that restores the old behavior.

[ashmaroli]

@parkr What do you think would be the best path forward considering the fact that this is a whitelisted plugin on GitHub Pages?

[parkr]

I'd add a show_drafts config under feed to filter them. The global show_drafts field is really meant for non-production environments, like local or a Netlify Preview deploy.

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[meribold]

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I don't expect anyone to volunteer their time working on this issue, but @jekyllbot doesn't seem helpful. Why not just leave issues open even if there isn't much activity? Here's a pretty good case against using bots that automatically close issues: https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html.

[parkr]

Sorry about jekyllbot. The motivation there is to cut down on noise for the maintainers by ensuring that the open issues are ones that are still occurring and still important to the user. On a big project like Jekyll you get a lot of drive-by issues for folks that never follow up. Many folks use the Jekyll issues for support too but we prefer folks to use talk.jekyllrb.com for help with installing etc. Anyway, I pinned this issue so Jekyllbot should stop following up.

My solution here would be to add a flag to config.yml. Since we're pre-1.0, stability is not guaranteed per semver. I think the right behavior is: if show_drafts is true, then show everywhere (including the feed) unless explicitly turned off for the feed.

show_drafts: true
# no feed config, show in feed

show_drafts: true
feed:
  include_drafts: false
# don't show in feed

Adding a flag makes things just a little more complicated but the use cases are valid for both scenarios.

By the way, Netlify and Heroku would gladly deploy a draft site from a pull request that you can share to others. This isolates the changes you want reviewed from your "production" environment and might be the best option moving forward for sharing drafts with others and previewing on mobile.

[meribold]

I pinned this issue so Jekyllbot should stop following up.

Thanks!

By the way, Netlify and Heroku would gladly deploy a draft site from a pull request that you can share to others. This […] might be the best option moving forward for sharing drafts with others and previewing on mobile.

You're right and I have actually set up something similar for my website in the meantime. I.e., (speaking only for myself) I don't really need the ability to exclude drafts from feeds anymore. Back in 2016 there were quite a few people in issue #94 and PR #95 that wanted drafts to be excluded from feeds, but this issue barely has drawn any interest since it's been opened about a year ago. Perhaps it's become much more common to only push drafts to a testing environment since then. OTOH, having an include_drafts: false option might still be useful for GitHub Pages users.

[pgstef]

OTOH, having an include_drafts: false option might still be useful for GitHub Pages users.

Very useful :-) I'm indeed using GH Pages (because it is very easy to use for my simple/basic use-case)