Auto generate _site folder on a schedule

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Glad to be back on JT after having trouble logging in with Github credentials for several months. Anyway …

I have a large number of draft posts with DATE set to a future day according t my site’s editorial calendar. New posts become current several times a week. Currently, I’m manually running Jekyll to regenerate the site with the new-that-day posts.

Is there a way to have Jekyll automatically run & regenerate the _site folder say at 3:00 a.m. every day?

I thought I’d seen something about this somewhere a while,back but cannot remember the right term. Googling & searching JT with terms I can think of hasn’t gotten me what I need.

Any insight or direction would be awesome!

Thanks.

Rich

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I’ve seen a couple of ways people do this.

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Awesome. Thanks for the links. I’ll check those out in a bit.

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Travis have recently added the ability to turn on daily builds (cron). If you used or were to use Travis for building your site that could be an option. I have it turned on for a site I maintain.

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Travis … that was the other thing I vaguely remembered but couldn’t pull out of my brain! Thanks.

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CloudCannon now has scheduled build. Check it out at https://CloudCannon.com