drafts

This post explains how you can add scheduled publishing to your 11ty blog (with a bonus for drafts). Before I jump in though, 11ty is a surprisingly simple system for generating a static site from very little HTML, and drives content from markdown. Why is this good? Because it lets you, the author, move focus to writing and communicating. Why is writing good? It's , it's a safe experimentation area and it's good to own your content rather than contributing to another that could vanish any day. So, you're going to blog. Now onwards to scheduled posts and drafts!

Exercise more control over when, and if, your posts appear.

A look at various ways of supporting draft posts with Eleventy

Making new boilerplate files is one of many tiny professional pet peeves that makes me ask "what would a real engineer do?" Answer: automate it!

With its 0.11.0 release, Eleventy offers a powerful feature. Let's see how to exclude draft collection items from build output in Eleventy programmatically, using eleventyComputed.

Several static site generators and content management systems have built in functionality to mark posts as drafts. Eleventy (11ty) isn't one of these…