Questions

Currently the way things seem to be set up for showing entries (i.e. #all_entries) is they're in reverse chronological order. Is there a way to sort by chronological order? Thanks! Ray

I found something intriguing: Some of the Blot templates render the title of a blog entry (as you can set it in the metadata) nicely as a heading, others don't do so. For example Isola renders it, but Magazine doesn't. So for Magazine you would need to repeat the title as na explicit Markdown heading. This might be desirable -- or not so. In any case the inconsistency makes it hard to switch between templates. So my question now is: What's the standard here? Is there even a wider standard beyond Blot?

I am used to a date format like 18 Jan 1999 or at least 18-01-1999. I have set the date format in the settings to DD-MM-YYY, but still the blog displays January 18, 1999.

I use FeedPress to manage my RSS feed. Ideally it would replace the standard feed for my site. For that I would have to set up a redirection from my site's normal feed to the FeedPress feed, while still giving FeedPress access to the normal site feed so it can be updated. Usually that's done via .htaccess file (see here). Is there any way this can be accomplished?

In the doco I read that after forking a template I can edit it on the Blot admin site and in the filesystem. I found where to edit them on the admin site, but I don't know where they are in the filesystem. -- I can't find them in Blot's Dropbox folder.

Trying to conceptualize how to set up my portfolio site and I was wondering if it's possible to return a more refined list of tags than either {{#all_tags}} or {{#popular_tags}}. Specifically, I'd love to be able to display a list of tags that are subhierarchical to a tag folder they reside in. Using examples from the docs, let's imagine a site set up like: [Pictures]›[Sicily] [Pictures]›[Venezia] [Essay]›[Roma] And calling {{#all_tags}} {{tagged.Pictures}}... would return the tag links [Sicily] and [Venezia] (which could be used to generate categorical navigation links as in the nav of the portfolio theme which is the base of the fork). Is there a different way to approach this or is a function similar to this possible?

Another newbie question: In the documentation I read somewhere that I can change the colors (background, text, etc) of the blog. However in the settings I could not find anything relating to this. - Do I need to make my own template for this?

Does Blot support Markdown’s custom heading IDs? For example, using iA Writer it is possible to change the ID assigned to a heading when it's turned into HTML like so: ### This is a heading with a lot of text [short-id] You'll then be able to link to #short-id instead of the full heading title.

Hello, I couldn't find anything in my short trips through documentation and questions that mentioned embedding images with wikilinks. I've been experimenting a little in case it does exist, but I figure I should ask here: is this possible or at least a potential future feature? It would be a huge plus with the synergy between Blot and Obsidian.

Hi! I just signed up for Commento, added my URL (https://russbonchu.site) and checked off the box here in the services page, but it's not showing up. i also put their code snippet at the end of my post. Does it take some time?

Getting an error when I try to switch from Dropbox to Google Drive. ":( Error"

Image files render directly in blot, but not so videos (eg. mp4). It the ideal solution to host videos on a 3rd party site and then embed them?

Just curious as to how you insert an image (stand alone or in a. blog post) that renders as a wide image as in the example in the video? Can this be done in markdown or html so the image extends beyond the edge of the text column ? Thanks in advance!

It looks like an image tag, ![](), generates <p>...<img ...>...</p>. I assume this is a fixed thing, or is there a way to generate <figure><img ...><figcaption>...</figcaption></figure> ?

As the title says, I've looked at some of the templates but they have different number of files and I didn't see anything about this in the documentation (but I'm sure that I've missed something).

I'm new to writing templates and I want to create a menu like this item1 - item2 - item3 - item4 My problem is that only want the '-' between the items. With the help of 'last' I can write something like this {{#menu}} <a href="{{url}}" title="{{label}}">{{label}}</a> - {{#last}} <a href="{{url}}" title="{{label}}">{{label}}</a> {{/last}} {{/menu}} Which of course results in two 'item4'. What I haven't figured out is how to match 'this items isn't the last item'. Can anyone tell me how to do this

Can you give an example of how to add a javascript library to a site?

Are diagrams supported? If not is there a way to get them to work? Here is an example.

Is there a way to flag a section of markdown to not be processed by blot? For example, let's I wanted to include a section of pure HTML inside the markdown, so it might look like this: regular markdown <div class="do-not-process"> Line </div> more regular markdown As it is currently, blot will process the following and spit out: <p>regular markdown</p> <div class="do-not-process"> <p>Line</p> </div> <p>more regular markdown</p> The extra <p> inside the div is causing problems for the mermaid diagram tool. It looks for a div with the class of mermaid, and inside that div does not expect any <p> tags. When it encounters them, it throws a syntax error. A workaround right now is uploading pages as HTML files but that isn't a desired workflow. Thanks!

I noticed on Blot's own about page the following text - "Dropbox’s traffic limits do not apply because Blot hosts the contents of your folder on its own server." Guessing the same applies when syncing with Google Drive and that there are no traffic limits to worry about?