Example of using drafts in Jekyll

jekyll-drafts.md

Let's say your Jekyll site's directory structure looks like:

|-- _config.yml
|-- _drafts/
|   |-- a-draft-post.md
|-- _layouts/
|   |-- default.html
|-- _posts/
|   |-- 2013-05-10-a-published-post
|-- index.html

How to preview a draft post

Normally (and on GitHub Pages) Jekyll will ignore the posts in the _drafts folder, publishing only the posts in the _posts folder. If you run Jekyll locally with the --drafts flag (e.g., jekyll serve --drafts), Jekyll will include any posts in the _drafts folder, just as if they were published post (but don't worry, only locally).

Now that GitHub Pages are limited to 10 builds per day, is it safe for me to assume that committing to the _drafts folder does not trigger a build?

@theJollySin

It's not 10/day it's 10/h, as you can read at https://help.github.com/articles/what-is-github-pages/:

GitHub Pages sites have a soft limit of 10 builds per hour.

And as for _drafts triggering a build, it doesn't really matter. Every commit to selected branch triggers a build http://stackoverflow.com/questions/24098792/how-to-force-github-pages-build

The documentation says Drafts are posts without a date..

What does it mean?
Does it means I should remove the date field from the page:

---

title: 'Something Boring'
date: 2017-11-30
author: Someone
layout: post
class: news

Thank You.

@RoyiAvital The draft post will not appear in the site folder if it contains a date property and you are running with the --drafts switch. Remove the date property and it will output for testing

|-- _config.yml
|-- _drafts/
|   |-- 2013-05-10-a-published-post
|-- _layouts/
|   |-- default.html
|-- assets/
|   |-- 2013-05-10-a-published-post/
|       |-- file.jpg
|-- index.html

Hi all, does anyone know whether it is actually possible to view a draft with a date in the filename?

The reason I'm asking this is because I use a script that takes the filename of my blog post (YYYY-MM-DD-post-name) to create a folder where I store my images, adding the date keeps the files neatly organised.

My scripts are based on taking the filename, which works if I write my drafts in the _posts folder but my jekyll blog doesn't seem to be able to find my drafts if I add date.

Tips?