Drafts and publishing

Frontmatter and a couple of config options decide which pages make it onto your published site.

Drafts

Mark a page as a draft to keep it out of the site entirely:

---
title: Work in progress
draft: true
---

Draft pages are left out of navigation, search, and the sitemap. This is on by default. This vault includes content/drafts/hidden.md as a draft, which is why it never appears on the site.

Unlisted pages

Set listed: false when a page should stay reachable and embeddable, but should not show up in the sidebar, search, or sitemap:

---
title: Embed helper
listed: false
---

This is handy for small helper pages — like the note this vault embeds on the Embeds and assets page. Use draft: true instead when the page should be excluded completely.

Explicit publishing

For a stricter workflow, require every page to opt in. Turn on explicit publishing in silica.config.ts:

filters: {
  explicitPublish: true,
}

Now only pages with publish: true are included; everything else is held back. This is useful when staging content that must never go live by accident.

Which one to use

These options live in Configuration.