Equivalent of `publish` command from Cobalt?

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Hi there,

I’m in the process of migrating my blog from Cobalt to Zola and in my automated flow, I use cobalt publish to do:

  • set the draft state to false
  • set the publish date in frontmatter
  • change the filename to YYYY-MM-DD-slug.md
  • move the file from drafts to posts folder.

What is the Zola way to do at least the draft status change and the date operations (front + rename the .md file)?

Regards,

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There isn’t a command for that, it needs to be done manually.
For my own workflow, I don’t use draft but do a PR on my site and just merge it when it’s ready after updating the date and netlify builds it automatically.

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Ok thank you :slight_smile:

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Would you accept the addition of such a feature in Zola? (If so, I volonteer to write it and do a PR for that)
Same for a permalink templating system to define where the files are going to in public.

To do something like, in a section _index.md:

page_path = "{{ year }}/{{ month }}"

will create for a post with a date 2019-10-24 public/2019/19/my_post/

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For the command no. This is pretty niche and adding a new command (like zola check recently) needs to offer a strong value to every users and a publish command using drafts is not that.

For the url templating, there is Custom URL templates. · Issue #635 · getzola/zola · GitHub (google is much better at finding things than me :sweat_smile:). I personally don’t like it for the reasons mentioned in Custom URL templates. · Issue #635 · getzola/zola · GitHub to which I would add that it makes updating an article impossible (the url will still be the old one). I’m not 100% opposed to the idea of URL templates as some of them can be useful (eg {{date}}-report) but it would take some convincing.

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Ok for the command, I’ll write some kind of wrapper in Rust (I have to write one anyway to replace my current messy mix of shell-script/awk that automate the scheduling of my posts).

For the URL, I’ll continue the discussion over there :slight_smile: