Python Pelican: How to view draft content on a website
Posted on Sun 17 April 2022 in Python
بِسْمِ ٱللَّٰهِ ٱلرَّحْمَٰنِ ٱلرَّحِيمِ
Pelican is a static site generator written in the Python programming language.
Pelican has a feature where draft content can be published to the internet.
Draft content should have the following attribute within the .md files (assuming content is written in Markdown):
Status: draft
After generating the content, the draft content should appear in:
../output/drafts/
In order to view the draft content on the internet, the exact filename will be required. In my example, I created a file called: who-are-the-successful-people.html. The draft can be viewed at:
https://www.kentoseth.com/drafts/who-are-the-successful-people.html
The generic way to view drafts would then be:
Site URL + /drafts/ + pagename.html
OR
Site URL/drafts/pagename.html
A Pelican plugin also exists that can enable a "browsable drafts listing for your Pelican website". This would make it possible to view all drafts under Site URL/drafts/. A useful option if you have many WIP (work-in-progress) articles.
The plugin can be found at: Pelican Drafts
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