Questions

When sharing links to my website on social media, how can I get thumbnails to show up?

I’m seeing a new best practice around regarding Content Security Policy (CSP): any solution planned in Blot regarding this or is an individual implementation to consider, like analytics? Thanks!

E.g., setting canonical links, meta descriptions, og:image, site title/description, etc.

I currently have a paid Dropbox account. But I am considering switching to an alternate service (probably iCloud). I remember reading somewhere – on the Blot website I think, but can no longer find it – that with recent changes in Dropbox plans, free Dropbox accounts will no longer sync with services like Blot in the same way paid Dropbox accounts do. Will my Blot website be affected if I switch to a free Dropbox account? Also, do you have any future plans to sync with iCloud or other services like Google Drive?

Blot's metadata system is awesome. So is YAML metadata, which is used by a bunch of other apps and services. Do YAML's --- separators break Blot's metadata, or are the two compatible? Edit: just noticed that this seems to be in the todos: https://blot.im/about/news Looking forward to it!

Hi, I have been playing around with trying to set up ap_shortcodes.js on my site to allow shortcodes to format RPG 'actual play' reports. I've tried pointing the head scripts and css to the default location and also downloading them to my local site and pointing to them there, but the JavaScript doesn't seem to be getting picked up. The example page provided by the developer works just fine (the example html) so my browser is certainly able to render the scripts...and I'm assuming the default scripts (that I've been trying to point to) also are functional. I presume it's just something at the Blot end that I've done incorrectly! Can you please point me in the direction of any information that might help me configure these settings?

I have purchased some font files (.ttf, .woff) which I would like to use on my blog. How do I change the font?

I’m attempting to set up my Blot blog with my domain but my DNS provider doesn’t allow for ALIAS records to be set. I ended up just setting up an A record that points to Blot’s direct IP address. Would you anticipate this ever causing any issues?

Hi. I’d like to set up a second blog I think. I use 2tb on Dropbox do plenty of room. Can the second blog have its own custom domain? What is best way to set up folders? I have the blot folder with three folders on inside. Is there a basic convention or howto for this? Thanks!

I would like to use Analytics to see how many people read my blog. (Probably only my mum :)) But I do not want to give google my log files 'for free'. I would rather just analyze the log files on my own with a service like goaccess.io. is there a way to access the Log files?

How would I go about displaying the Title and Link to my most recent blog-post on the Landing page? Thank you

I just published a post with a couple of embedded tweets, and they hang just a little bit left of where the body text is aligned. I've tested this with both the tweet's URL and Twitter-provided embed code, but the result is the same. Does anyone have a solution for how I can force the embed either to stay in line with the body text, or else to align centrally on the page? Thanks.

I used the {|<} tag to put an image and a video in the margin of my post, and looks fine. But when I go to my home page where all my posts are listed, the video (a screen recording) is longer than the text next to it, so it is hanging down past the post it goes with and looks messy on the home page. Is there a way for content in the margins to push other posts on the home page down vertically so that posts are not overlapping? Thanks

Hi, is there a way to add our own robots.txt to disallow crawling, without it being turned into a post of its own? Also, if there is, how can I make User-agent: * Disallow: / not be read as metadata

I have searched the documentation and the questions here, but I have not found an answer to the question. If I have a post, and I want to display an excerpt (teaser) for it on the list of posts (using the Diary template), how do I accomplish this without having to duplicate post content in the metadata section? I have tried a variety of combinations of the {{{teaser}}} and {{more}} special tags in my post content but nothing seems to work. I simply want to know how I can flag the first paragraph of the post as a teaser. Thanks for any help you can provide.

Is there a fairly straightforward way to set the permalink to the entry title rather than the date that is displayed for that entry from the entries list?

Hi! Loving Blot and delighted to be moving towards it as my main platform. I've just been doing some minor tweaks to the Diary template - increasing the size of the text in the navigation bar with a slight adjustment to opacity. (Also tweaked the blockquote right margin font size which was a bit teeny for my feeble eyes.) I'd quite like to increase the size of the website name (and is it possible to add a small logo/image alongside the name?) as it is currently just a little smaller than H1 text. Any help appreciated - though I will understand if you re-direct me towards a developer as we're getting into custom template territory.

Just wondering if there's a maximum total size or a maximum filesize. Now that Blot supports wikilinking I'm thinking about making my site quite a bit bigger...

From what I have seen, you have the option of either using {{{html}}} or {{{teaser}}} and {{more}}in the entries.html page. Is there a way of integrating both, meaning the post is displayed in its entirety unless a {{more}} tag is included somewhere to turn it into a teaser?

I'm using Commento, but the problem is that it is lacking visibility. How could I add a "Comments" link under the post date on the left, on each post, on the main page? Thanks.