# Front-matter parameter/variable or something...that could 'mark' a page to be published/unpublished?

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**Created:** [April 23, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/front-matter-parameter-variable-or-something-that-could-mark-a-page-to-be-published-unpublished/5925 "2021-04-23T12:15:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![jordila](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/jordila/32/3488_2.png) [@jordila](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/jordila)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:15pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/front-matter-parameter-variable-or-something-that-could-mark-a-page-to-be-published-unpublished/5925/1 "2021-04-23T12:15:09Z")

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Hi jekyllers

Posts can be i draft mode… Fine.

Yet, on pages…  
Is there a front-matter little hack, parameter/variable or something…that could ‘mark’ a page to be published/unpublished or may have i dreamed it '?

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**Author:** ![jordila](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/jordila/32/3488_2.png) [@jordila](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/jordila)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2021, 12:25pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/front-matter-parameter-variable-or-something-that-could-mark-a-page-to-be-published-unpublished/5925/2 "2021-04-23T12:25:39Z")

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i answer myself

```
published: false

```

Source: [Front Matter | Jekyll • Simple, blog-aware, static sites](https://jekyllrb.com/docs/front-matter/)

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**Author:** ![rahil627](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rahil627/32/4244_2.png) [@rahil627](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rahil627)\
**Post date:** [January 20, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/front-matter-parameter-variable-or-something-that-could-mark-a-page-to-be-published-unpublished/5925/3 "2022-01-20T13:39:42Z")

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thank you for posting this! I had trouble finding it in the docs too!! 🙂

an importer i used automatically added this for me…

at first i thought the idea of `_drafts` folder was really strange design, but now i realize it’s not as easy to find those drafts! 😑 I have to learn to cli `grep` or `head` or something…?