Private Pages

private_pages:

• purpose: prevent notes from publishing
• mechanisms:
  • filter_plugins:
    • source: Filter plugins
    • behavior: exclude content by criteria
    • plugins:
      • RemoveDrafts: default; excludes notes with draft: true in frontmatter
      • ExplicitPublish: excludes all notes except notes with publish: true in frontmatter
    • warning:

      Warning

      Filter plugins do not block non-Markdown assets: Quartz emits all non-Markdown files (images, audio, PDFs, etc.) into the final build, making them public.

  • ignorePatterns:
    • location: quartz.config.yaml → main configuration
    • behavior: excludes matching paths from parsing
    • syntax: fast-glob, not standard Bash glob syntax
    • examples:
      • some/folder: excludes entire folder
      • *.md: excludes all .md files
      • !(*.md): excludes all non-.md files; negations require parentheses
      • **/private: excludes files/folders named private at any nesting level
    • warning:

      ignorePatterns only remove files from the built site. A public GitHub repository still exposes source files unless matching patterns exist in .gitignore. See git documentation.

      Plugins and