Hide draft blog posts from listings, feeds, and search

[atharvadeosthale]

What

Makes draft: true in a blog post's frontmatter hide the post everywhere except its own direct URL.

A draft post:

• stays reachable at /blog/post/<slug> (renders normally)
• is excluded from: the blog listing (plus the featured hero and pagination), author pages, category pages and chips, the "read next" list, RSS (/blog/rss.xml), the JSON feed (/blog/feed.json), and llms.txt / llms-full.txt
• emits <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> so search engines drop it while the URL stays live

How

A single source of truth: a new publishedPosts (non-draft) export in blog/content.ts, reused by:

• the blog layout context (covers author pages, category pages, and "read next")
• getBlogEntries() for the listing and category chips
• both feeds (rss.xml, feed.json)
• both llms generators (matched by slug)

Post.svelte gains a draft prop and the conditional noindex meta. The post route itself is untouched, so the URL keeps working. unlisted behavior is unchanged.

Testing

• svelte-check: 0 errors, 0 warnings
• Verified with a browser (Playwright) and curl: the draft is absent from every listing/feed surface, present only at its direct URL with noindex; published posts are unaffected

Call-outs (not included here)

• The sitemap (server/sitemap.js) builds from the route manifest, not frontmatter, so a draft URL can still appear in sitemap.xml. noindex still prevents indexing; excluding it from the sitemap would be a small follow-up.
• On-site search is handled by an external Meilisearch crawler, which is not guaranteed to skip drafts from this change alone.