diff --git a/src/main/frontend/handler/page.cljs b/src/main/frontend/handler/page.cljs
index 7a3734179e..1461d90b12 100644
--- a/src/main/frontend/handler/page.cljs
+++ b/src/main/frontend/handler/page.cljs
@@ -348,7 +348,8 @@
     (when (and (state/enable-journals? repo)
                (not (:graph/loading? @state/state))
                (not (state/loading-files? repo))
-               (not (state/whiteboard-route?)))
+               (not (state/whiteboard-route?))
+               (not config/publishing?))
       (state/set-today! (date/today))
       (when (or (config/db-based-graph? repo)
                 (config/local-file-based-graph? repo)