Questions
How to embed audio in a post?
Just wondering if there is a way to publish audio, say an mp3 file for a podcast, in a post.
Image galleries / slideshows / masonry layouts
Hi! Is there any recommended way to display multiple images in a single post alongside text, either as a carousel (e.g. Lightweight image slider) or as a masonry layout (e.g. PhotoSwipe or Masonry)?
Info on showing multiple images/photographs in a post?
I need further help related to this question: Image galleries / slideshows / masonry layouts Where you have recommended PhotoSwipe to show multiple images as a slideshow of sorts. But I'm a newbie when to comes to adding code to the template, and then I'm not sure how I'd need to format my post to show images. Can you please guide me on: how to update the template for this (which code to copy and where). Please also share if there are any other tools/ways to achieve this (other than through PhotoSwipe). I need a very basic carousel type slideshow that shows images in their full size. how to format a multi-image post (I currently follow a structure where I have a folder for each post: content .txt file + related image file (if I have an image to add) are within one folder. Thank you so much!
Adding tags to a post?
I can find a few questions/answers regarding how to display tags, but I can not work out how to add tags to my posts. I am expecting the answer to be simple and to prove my ignorance - but please enlighten me!
noindex a specific post or page?
Is there a way to add <meta name="robots" content="noindex" /> to an individual markdown page? Presumably if I put the HTML tag in the markdown it'll appear within <body></body> and so will be noncompliant with the HTML specification. Thanks!
Sharing on Twitter
How can I automatically share my blog posts on Twitter? I can’t seem to find any instructions. Cheers.
File download link
I put a file in my Files folder, prepended with the _ character so it didn't become a post. When I right-click > download on the link on the post, it just downloads the 404 html page. Can I make a link just a file download from dropbox?
How can I post images without... POSTing images?
I want to upload images to embed within posts. I DON'T want these images to appear as their own posts! I figured moving them into the Files folder would achieve this, but... apparently no such luck!
Pagination for Tagged urls?
Is there a way to enable pagination for tagged urls If a tag has a hundred posts or more, and they have images, it would be nice to only have a page worth of them load and then envoke the pagination navigation. I had tried modifying the entries.html view in conjunction with the tagged.html view but had no luck. Thoughts?
List all pages of entries in a <select> element
Is there a way to include all pages in a <select> element, so users can choose a specific page rather than clicking "view older posts" over and over? Thanks for such a wonderful platform.
Workaround for Hash-Hack
CommonMark doesn't support the CSS styles extension, so I am using a HashHack to style images. For example an image beer.jpg with HashHack would look like beer.jpg#left30, which is then declared in CSS as img[src*="#left30"]. This is somewhat cumbersome and doesn't really allow nesting or precedence, but it works. However, if I am checking the "optimize and cache" in Blot's settings, the hash is (this is 100% within the standard, I am not complaining) discarded. So I need a different way to style images that does not involve using img tags (well, I could, but I am trying to convince academics to use this, and they're famously tech-illiterate :). Any ideas?
How to embed images using Markdown?
I have an image saved as _image_name.png in the same folder as the post. I am using the following syntax but my blog doesn't render an image:  How can I fix this? Also, I noticed that there aren't any names for whoever responds to posts. You may want to put one just for yourself.
Importing posts from Micro.blog?
Hi. I am on microblog and am interested in finding the easiest way to export my posts and images. Micro.blog offers a markdown export but they also offer a few others like Wordpress WXR. I anticipate the easiest would be the markdown export and then edit the posts especially with images. Has anyone exported microblog posts into blot? Thanks!
Archives for custom metadata
Does the template engine have a view built-in for archive pages for custom metadata, like it does for tags?
Total Post Count
Is there a way to show total post count? Something like... {{#all_entries}}{{entries.length}}{{/all_entries}}
Does making a second blog affect the first blog?
I want to make a second blog, unrelated to my first and already started paying for a second account. It's important that my first blog is not influenced by this. Could you confirm that nothing will change - to the outside world - in terms of addresses and links from my first blog when i add the second? I assume that the changes in dropbox needed to have two separate blogs are automatic and below the surface.
Multiple languages?
I have content available in more than one language. Is there a simple way I can let a visitor choose the language in which a post is displayed?
Misaligned date on front page of Essay theme
My blog's front page lists a post where the date is aligned to two lines instead of one (at least on my desktop browser). Is there a way to fix this? Thanks.