How do I set my quarto website such that blog posts that I wrote ages ago are not re-rendered every time I build my site?

[Shelmith-Kariuki]

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Hi,

I have included the option freeze:auto on all my qmd files but every time I edit any file and render the site, all the files are rendered which is a slow and long process. Right now, I'm only working on file 22 (see image attached) and would want only that file to be rendered.

[cscheid]

freeze should still be happening here. If you have a reproducible example where freeze is still causing knitr or jupyter to run, that's a Quarto bug that we need to work on.

The rendering you're seeing happens after the engine, and that goes independently of freeze. (We're aware that rendering in Quarto is slower than we'd like it to be, and we're working on it.)

[Shelmith-Kariuki]

Hi @cscheid

Thank you for your response.

Actually, none of my files contain any code. It's just a bunch of texts and images.

Does it mean that the freeze mechanism works when there are code chunks in the qmd file?

[cscheid]

Yes. We should document this more clearly, but https://quarto.org/docs/projects/code-execution.html#freeze stores the results of execution engines, and not the final (eg) .html or PDF output.

[Shelmith-Kariuki]

Aaah, okay. Now I understand. Thank you.