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Draft blog posts are published and listed in the sitemap

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
88/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
typescript
Domain
content, frontend

Research direction

Read apps/outreach/src/pages/[locale]/blog/[slug].astro and compare its getStaticPaths collection query with the filter in apps/outreach/src/pages/[locale]/blog/index.astro. Run pnpm --filter @opendatacapture/outreach build; done means the draft's page is absent from dist and its URL is absent from dist/sitemap-0.xml.

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Description

Area: Outreach Bug Difficulty: Low Good First Issue Priority: Medium

Blog posts marked isDraft: true are still published. The blog index filters drafts out, but the post route's getStaticPaths builds a page for every entry in the blog collection, drafts included. The draft is then live at its URL, and @astrojs/sitemap lists it in sitemap-0.xml, so search engines are told to index it. Today this exposes blog/open-data-capture-vs-redcap.md (isDraft: true), which is served at https://opendatacapture.org/en/blog/open-data-capture-vs-redcap/ with a 200.

Where

apps/outreach/src/pages/[locale]/blog/[slug].astro:11-23:

export const getStaticPaths = async () => {
  const posts = await getCollection('blog');

  const paths = posts.map((post) => ({
    params: {
      locale: post.data.language,
      slug: post.slug
    },
    props: { post }
  }));

The index applies the filter the post route is missing, at apps/outreach/src/pages/[locale]/blog/index.astro:17:

const posts = await getCollection('blog', ({ data }) => data.language === resolvedLanguage && !data.isDraft);

Reproduce

  1. pnpm --filter @opendatacapture/outreach build.
  2. Look for dist/en/blog/open-data-capture-vs-redcap/index.html, and grep dist/sitemap-0.xml for open-data-capture-vs-redcap.

Actual: the page is built, and the sitemap lists https://opendatacapture.org/en/blog/open-data-capture-vs-redcap/. The live site serves it.
Expected: no page and no sitemap entry for a post with isDraft: true.

Tests

apps/outreach has no unit or Playwright suite, by decision (apps/outreach/AGENTS.md). Verify through the build: after the fix, dist/en/blog/open-data-capture-vs-redcap/ does not exist and dist/sitemap-0.xml does not mention it.

Suggested fix

Filter with the same predicate in getStaticPaths: getCollection('blog', ({ data }) => !data.isDraft).

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