View Jekyll Drafts and Future Posts

How to create a Jekyll draft?

All you have to do is simply create a directory called _drafts in the site’s root and place your draft posts inside.

Avoid including a date in the file name and the front matter for draft posts.

Build Jekyll site locally

To build the Jekyll site locally, one of the two below commands can be used.

1. jekyll serve
2. bundle exec jekyll serve

depending on whether you use Jekyll through Bundler or have it installed directly to the system.

View drafts and future content

1. Using the --drafts flag with the terminal command will allow Jekyll to read the source files under _drafts and build your site.
2. Using the --future flag with the terminal command will allow you to view all posts that are dated in the future.
3. Without the --future flag, all source files dated in the future will be skipped over including those under _drafts
   • System message → Skipping: _drafts/2023-09-25-test.md has a future date

Code

My current serve command looks like this:

bundle exec jekyll s --port 4002 --drafts --future