Metadata
The link, title and publish date of each blog post are generated automatically. You can override some or all of this metadata on the file’s first line.
Date: January 23rd, 2021 Link: metadata You must leave a space after the colon between the metadata property (e.g. Date) and its value. Metadata must be separated from the rest of the post by at least one blank line.
Dates
A blog post’s publish date is the same as the file’s creation date by default. You can specify a different date in the file’s path or in its metadata:
Date: January 23rd, 2021 Blot supports a variety of date formats. These all produce a post with the same date: 01/23/2021 January 23, 2021 1.23.2021 2021-01-23 00:00 You can use underscores, dashes, slashes and dots to separate the numbers in the date.
You can specify a post’s publish date in its path. For example, all four of these posts share the same publish date:
Please note that a date specified inside a file overrides a date specified in its path. If you specify a date in the future, your post will be scheduled for publication at that future date.
Tags
Use tags to connect posts by similar subject. Specify tags in the file’s metadata or in its path. Here’s an example blog post with two tags in its metadata:
Tags: Getting started, Documentation Tags are case-insensitive and may contain whitespace. Blot picks the case you used last when displaying the tag on your blog.
| Path | Tagged |
|---|---|
| Pictures, Holiday | |
| Reviews | |
| Notes |
Metadata reference
| Title | Defaults to the text of the first heading in the blog post or the file’s name. |
| Date | Defaults to the file’s creation date. Specify a different date in the file’s metadata with one of the supported formats. You can also change a post’s publish date using the file’s path. |
| Link | Defaults to a URL-friendly version of the post’s title. Specify a different link in the file’s metadata, or adjust the default link format. |
| Comments | Determines whether comments are enabled on the blog post or the page. Can be ’Yes’ or ’No’. Defaults to ’Yes’ for blog posts and ’No’ for pages. Has no effect if comments are disabled in the blog settings. |
| Summary | Defaults to the text of the first sentence of the first paragraph in the file. |
| Teaser | Defaults to the first few paragraphs of the blog post. You can specify a teaser in the file’s metadata or insert the breakpoint {{more}} yourself.You can specify the end of the teaser using the {{more}} tag somewhere in the file.Everything above the {{more}} tag, including this line, will be in the post’s teaser. |
| Tags | You can tag a blog post in the file’s metadata or using the file’s path. |
| Thumbnail | Defaults to the largest image in the blog post. You can specify a URL, or a path to an image in your blog’s folder. |
| Draft | Determines whether a file becomes a draft. Can be ’Yes’ or ’No’. Defaults to ’No’ unless the file is inside a folder called ’Drafts’. |
| Page | Determines whether a file becomes a page or a blog post. Can be ’Yes’ or ’No’. Defaults to ’No’ unless the file is inside a folder called ’Pages’. |
| Menu | Determines whether a file appears on your blog’s menu. Can be ’Yes’ or ’No’. Defaults to ’Yes’ for pages and ’No’ for blog posts. |
Custom metadata
You can also define your own metadata for use in your template.
Metadata in HTML files
You can use a comment at the start of an HTML file to specify metadata.
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<!--
Date: January 23rd, 2021
Link: /metadata
-->
The comment containing metadata in an HTML file
<b>must</b> start on the file's first line.