This website is designed something like an iceberg. There is a visible part, which you’re reading now, above the water. There is also a large invisible part that only I can see locally on my computers. This sometimes leads to links not working, but it affords me a great deal of flexibility in writing here.
The logic of the hidden pages is controlled by keeping them as drafts in Hugo.
To do so, I add draft: true to the frontmatter of a page.
This makes a whole page get rendered locally, but not publish to the actual website.
I can also have private material inside a public pages
using shortcode private which works like this:
{{ if eq hugo.Environment "development" }}
<div style="border: dotted; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 10px; padding-bottom: 10px; padding-left: 10px;">
✒️
{{ .Inner | markdownify }}
</div>
{{ end }}
{{ if eq hugo.Environment "production" }}
<!-- gobble -->
{{ end }}
This allows me to include private content in a public page. On my end, viewing the page locally, it looks something like this.
Published: Feb 22, 2025 @ 15:29.
Last Modified: Apr 23, 2025 @ 14:34.
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