Jekyll Github pages how to hide a post

Question

I am using jekyll with Github pages for my website. I am trying to make some posts not visible in the home but they can be linked from another post. In the frontmatter I tryed to add a field visible like this:

---
layout: post
title: 
excerpt: 
visible:1
---

And then in the index.html file I did a if check:

<div class="posts">
  {% for post in paginator.posts %}
  {% if post.visible== 1  %}

  <div class="post">
    <h1>
      <a href="{{ post.url }}">
        {{ post.title }}
      </a>
    </h1>

    <span class="post-date">{{ post.date | date_to_string }}</span>
        <a class="subtitle" href="{{ post.url }}">
           {{ post.excerpt }}
        </a>
      </a>
  </div>
  {% endif %}
  {% endfor %}
</div>

The idea is that when I set 0 in the visible field, the post won't be visible in the home. Unfortanely this is not working, do you have any hints? Thanks

Answer 1

Try to change your front-matter from visible:1 to visible: 1.

I just tried to reproduce your example on my machine, and I found that Jekyll seems to picky about the blanks in the front-matter.

With visible: 1, your example works for me.

With visible:1, Jekyll outputs the following error message while building the site:

YAML Exception reading C:/foo/bar.md: (): could not find expected ':' while scanning a simple key at line 5 column 1

...but it still finishes building and the generated site works, except that the post is not visible.