Deploy Your Locally Edited Site

Option A: Edit on your computer

1. Open src/content/blog/ in your code editor
2. Copy an existing post and rename the file (for example my-new-post.mdx)
3. Edit the content and frontmatter
4. In GitHub Desktop, write a short summary, click Commit, then Push

Option B: Edit in your browser

1. Go to your repo on github.com
2. Open src/content/blog/
3. Click any post, then click the pencil icon to edit, or Add file > Create new file
4. Click Commit changes at the bottom

No download needed. Good for small fixes from any device.

Easy way: Use the draft flag

This works right out of the box. No extra setup.

1. Write your post and set draft: true in the frontmatter
2. Commit and push. The post will not show on your site.
3. On the day you want it live, edit the post and change to draft: false
4. Commit and push. It goes live in 30 seconds.

Good for: small batches, one or two posts at a time. Bad for: setting up posts months ahead and forgetting them.

Auto-publish on a future date

This is the real WordPress-style scheduler. It needs three small pieces, but once they're set up you never touch them again.

Piece 1: Filter future-dated posts

By default, your blog index shows every post no matter the date. Open src/pages/blog/index.astro and find the line that loads posts. Change it to:

const allPosts = await getCollection('blog', ({ data }) =>
  !data.draft && new Date(data.publishDate) <= new Date()
);

This hides any post whose publishDate is still in the future. Do the same in any other file that lists blog posts (like the homepage).

Piece 2: Get a Cloudflare deploy hook

1. In your Cloudflare Pages project, go to Settings > Builds & deployments
2. Scroll to Deploy hooks and click Create deploy hook
3. Name it scheduled-rebuild and pick branch main
4. Copy the URL it gives you. It looks like https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/pages/webhooks/deploy_hooks/...

Piece 3: Add a daily GitHub Action

1. On github.com, go to your repo > Settings > Secrets and variables > Actions
2. Click New repository secret
3. Name it CLOUDFLARE_DEPLOY_HOOK and paste the URL from Piece 2
4. Save

Now create a new file in your project at .github/workflows/scheduled-rebuild.yml:

name: Scheduled rebuild

on:
  schedule:
    # Runs every day at 09:00 UTC
    - cron: '0 9 * * *'
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  trigger-build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Trigger Cloudflare Pages deploy
        run: curl -X POST "${{ secrets.CLOUDFLARE_DEPLOY_HOOK }}"

Commit and push. GitHub will run this every day at 9am UTC and rebuild your site. Any post whose publishDate has passed will appear automatically.