Questions

Is the Slug metadata field new? I know I've wanted it for a long time and only just now noticed it on the Metadata page. Either way, it is not working as advertised. When I tested it on an old post where I had used the Link field to customize its slug, it just dropped the rest of the Link Format I had defined. Instead of domain.name/path/to/post/slug it loaded as domain.name/slug So it basically functioned the same as the Link field.

Does Blot serve something like a page ID that would allow me to suppress the header on a particular page using .page-id-x #header {display: none;}? Specifically I'm hoping to display the header on all pages apart from the homepage at '/'.

Hey there, I'm currently not able to post anything through git. I also can't change my pages. Everything pushes normally, but nothings shows up in blot. Is anyone else seeing this?

Simple formating such as titles in bold and quotes in italics are not appearing in published posts, despite being in source Google Doc. Also not all the "tags", which are in the Google Doc titles, are updating after being amended.

If the post contains a video, the image from it is displayed as the cover of the post, regardless of the size of the other images. Please tell me how to choose the first picture in the post for the thumbnail. And also how do I mark the borders of the text, for display near the cover. I found a discussion on this topic but couldn't apply it to my template.

Is there a way what I post on Mastodon can become a blog post on blot.im? And the other way round: is there a way to automatically post by blot posts onto Mastodon?

Would it be possible for Blot to automate setting up a proxy for analytics script (as a safe-guard for add-blockers)? Or better yet, maybe some in-house analytics are in the workings? I currently use Umami as a simple privacy-focused self-hosted and cloud analytics and I keep wondering why wouldn't they just license the script to the third-parties like Blot to run along smoothly with the web-server itself.

My posts used to have timezones ("EDT", "EST", etc.) in the timestamps, but now they're all UTC. How can I make Blot recognize timezone ("z") again? Thank you.

How do I prevent this? Please see example on my site

I'm not sure if either are possible, but here goes: When I click into a tagged set of pictures, could it just go straight to the full size of the first one? And then, when you're viewing a tagged set, can it not have navigation back to any images not using that tag? What I'm trying to do, as I remember indexhibit working, is to use tags to create static finished sets of pictures, and then anything not tagged goes under Posts as the main feed. But I don't want picture navigation between the two, especially as there is no title showing what tag you're viewing.

I'm wondering if there's a simple way to hide a section from a page template if a certain metadata is specified. A bit like with Menu: No which hides a page from the navbar. I'd like to create a Hero Image: No which would disable the top image on a blog post. Your help is much appreciated :)

I'm new to Blot and noticed that the search feature returns no results when querying non-Latin scripts (e.g. CJK characters) even though the query exists in the blog posts. I'm vaguely aware the issue stems from the fact that the search feature only matches results wrapped in spaces & line breaks etc. My blog posts will be mostly written in Simplified Chinese, so the search feature is rendered near useless for my blog. I do understand that this may not be a good business decision since I assume the vast majority of blot.im users write in Latin scripts. Nevertheless, I hope you'll consider improving the search feature to accommodate languages that doesn't use spaces as delimiters. Thank you in advance!

Is there a different template for pages? I'm seeing a partial double-footer on Pages, but not on Entries/Blogs posts. In the screenshot, the horizontal rules and the Kofi image are part of footer.html. On post pages only, the hr / and Kofi logo show up twice, but not the rest of the footer. Dropbox to screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8u4f1w9rjnnn3wq/_double-footer.png?dl=1

I was wondering how I can stop quotes from merging onto one line. For example in markdown I have > one line > a separate line But it renders on blot as > one one a separate line Is there a simple way to prevent/override this?

On another blot site I am working on it'll be a hybrid digital garden/blog. Since some pages and posts will be updated over time, is there a way to show the last modified/updated date instead of creation date? I could change the date metadata but it would move the post around due to how Blot displays posts in reverse chronological order. I'd rather leave it wherever it is and just show updated dates whenever folks browse it.

Anyone know if any cross-posting is possible to other sites like BlueSky or Mastodon? I see that Micro.Blog just added the ability to cross-post to BlueSky.

Hello – where can I play with templates and are there 3rd party templates that are free or pay?

Is there a way to add a class to the page you're currently visiting in the menu?

I'm setting up a new theme and I'm trying to add some CSS variables (example below) but every time I try, it seems that blot isn't parsing them and is basically ignoring that CSS. Are CSS variables supported? Example: :root { --text: #333; --bg: #fafafa; } body { color: var(--text); background: var(--bg); } Apologies if this question has been answered before, but the search bar isn't working for me. I just get a faded screen with no results.