Hugo Schedule posts

How to schedule posts

This step is how to schedule blog posts for the future, and to get them to appear on a given day. It lets you create content, and spread it out over a period, instead of having to push the new changes on a given day.

The following steps only need doing once

  1. Open c:\hugo\sites\example.com.github\workflows
  2. Copy the .yml file, and give it a name of “schedule.yml”
  3. Edit the schedule.yml file
  4. Change the “name” property to add “Scheduled”
  5. Remove the “on” section (lines 3 to 10)
  6. Add the following
    on:
    schedule:
    • cron: “0 6 * * *”
  7. Remove the following line:
    if: github.event_name == ‘push’ || (github.event_name == ‘pull_request’ && github.event.action != ‘closed’)
  8. Save
  9. Commit and push
  10. Hope. Note, will not be at exact minute.

The following steps need doing for each post

  1. Create a new page as normal
  2. Open the new page in your editor of choice
  3. In the section at the top of the page, there should be a “date” property.
  4. Change the value of the corresponding date to be the date you want the content to be visible. It is in the yyyy-mm-dd format.
  5. Add whatever content you want to the post.
  6. Run the command “hugo server -DF” The “F” flag will include future changes
  7. Make sure you are happy with the changes
  8. Push and commit you changes.

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