I can't enable draft option in jekyll admin sidebar

[Grifo89]

I'm trying to figured out how to add draft option in the sidebar but I can't find how. I appreciate the help.

[ashmaroli]

It should render automatically if there are drafts in the site.
Have you enabled drafts for the Jekyll site? Either via config file or via the terminal:

bundle exec jekyll serve --drafts

[Grifo89]

Yes, it works! Thank you!! @ashmaroli

[vcavallo]

This isn't working for me. i'm runnning jekyll serve with --drafts (and I do see the items in _drafts on the served site) but the /admin interface doesn't show drafts anywhere. Furthermore, I have this in my _config.yml:

jekyll_admin:
  show_drafts: true
  homepage: "posts"

For what it's worth, the homepage isn't rendering "posts" but the default "pages", and the "Error could not fetch the config" message still appears (but the "configuration" item in the sidebar does show my current _config.yml

[vcavallo]

Okay, fixed it. I needed to have show_drafts: true in my top level config:

show_drafts: true
jekyll_admin:
  # hidden_links:
  #   - pages
  #   - staticfiles
  #   - datafiles
  #   - configuration
  homepage: "posts"

[vcavallo]

Problem with that is the drafts show up on the live site...

[chr0nikler]

+1 just had this issue, looks like --drafts option locally is no longer applying the same logic as the show_drafts config, which affects live site.

[chr0nikler]

Opened #714