Questions
Menu: no - Excluded From Search?
Looks like pages with the tag "Menu: no" are excluded from the search results. Is there a way to tag them to be included in the results?
Phantom image blog post.
First of all, thanks so much for this wonderful tool, and your attentive service. I'm actually enjoying creating a site again. Second, on this page I have a phantom image blog post. I've deleted all instances of the image from my file structure, but the image nonetheless persists. Can you please help learn how to remove it? Cheers, Drew
Link metadata not following link format
For this post I've specified the metadata to be: --- Date: 2021-01-01 17:15 Link: the-2020-upgradies-upgrade-332 Tags: nerdery, podcasts, favorites Author: Jarrod Blundy --- but I want the permalink to follow the Link Format that I've specified in settings: /blog/{{YYYY}}/{{M}}/{{slug}} Is there a way to it to work like that? Did I set something wrong?
Author Metadata
Do posts automatically get an Author tag? I know you can specify Author in metadata, but I wondered if I should include that for each post or only the ones not written by me. Related, at least in my RSS reader app, regardless of whether I include Author in the metadata, it's getting parsed as the title of the post. See here for an example where I've highlighted where the Author of the post would typically be displayed.
New version of static page
I update my "about me" page a push new version into GIT, but on web I still see old version of the page. How can I force refresh this page to new version?
Can't remove post
Despite removing the file and ensuring it's gone from the Google Drive folder, I can't seem to get rid of a duplicate blog post. I've tried the "Fix your folder" option as well.
Add a Table of Content only on one page?
Is there a way to add a TOC only on one page, which is very long? I don't want to have it on all the pages.
Image Embed
I am trying to embed an image and I have tried linking to the image in the folder on google drive which I have named "_sociallinks" but cannot work out the correct path to link to the image. I just get a question mark icon on the page. Any idea what path I should use?
Adding bigfoot.js to custom template
I am using a custom template and would like to add the bigfoot.js plug in. I saw that the magazine template includes it but cannot figure out how to install it from scratch.
About ads.txt
I have set up the google adsense to my site created by blot.im. And google said “ put the ads.txt on root directory. So I did it. And ads.txt was published as post. I want to avoid that ads.txt is published… Are there any ways to avoid that? Thanks in advance.
What are good extensions for partials?
I want to create a partial which just outputs a formatted entry line (like for the Search or Tagged page). When I read the Blot doco on the template language, partials have the extension .mustache, but all existing partials in the given templates have .html as the ending. What's the best extension to use? Does .mustache work? Or should we stick to .html?
Where in Blot's UI can I set the "date_display" variable?
The date_display variable works brilliantly to define how dates look in my templates. -- At the moment I set it in my package.json. Hwever, I thought there was a way to set it in the web UI too -- but I cannot find this anymore. Where is it? Thanks!
Blot server location
What’s the location of Blot’s servers? If data is exported from the EU/UK to the US, a data processing agreement is required and standard contractual clauses. An IP address counts as personally identifiable data (court decision).
How do I embed a link to a random post in my template?
I'd like to add a section to my site which displays a link to a random post. What's the best way to accomplish that?
Hot reload for the theme preview?
Hi! Is there an easy way to add some hot reload feature to a theme preview? At the moment my dev cycles is: Making a change to a theme file. Switching to the browser with the open theme preview URL Hitting cmd-R, and again cmd-R, and again cmd-R - until Dropbox is synced and the server serves the new version. Would be great if I could skip step 3 and just wait until the new version appears by itself! I could think of some server-side injected JavaScript or maybe there exist extensions (I use Firefox) which do the same client-side?
Does my draft have a URL I can share?
Setting Draft: true in the metadata gets me a rendered HTML file as a sibling of the source. Is the draft article also exposed at a URL I can share?
Scope of tag names
I'm a bit confused about the scope of tag names from the Reference page: For example, the reference lists blog.title and entry.title, but on the entries.html they don't seem to work for me. However the unqualified title does work.
Mobile view not retaining font weight for blog title
I've set font weight: 600 (and a few other style changes) for the blog's title in header.html, and it looks great on desktop. But when I view on mobile (iOS Safari), the font weight is missing. The title doesn't look as bold as I like. Please let me know how to fix this.. thank you.
How to use the {{more}} tag?
I am changing entries.html so that it only shows {{{summary}}} of a blog post. I would like to indicate a "more" link if there is more text. The {{more}} tag contains this information -- but how can I use this to display a "More" links? Can Mustache do this? Or do I need JavaScript?