The link and date of each post are generated from the contents of the file and the date it was created. You can override this and other metadata as needed.
Setting your own metadata is optional. If you want to set your own metadata, you must do so at the very start of the file. For example, consider this post:
Date: May 22nd, 2022 Link: introduction Metadata must be separated from the rest of the post by at least one blank line. You must leave a space after the colon between the metadata property (e.g. Date) and its value.
The publish date for a post is copied from the file’s creation date. You can set your own publish date using your folder or in the file’s metadata, like this:
Date: May 22nd, 2022 Blot supports a variety of date formats. These all produce a post with the same date: 05/22/2022 May 22, 2022 5.22.2022 2022-05-22 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 of these files become posts with the same publish date and time:
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. You can verify the date of publication if you click on the file on your dashboard.
Use tags to connect posts by similar subject. Specify tags in the file’s metadata or in its path. Here’s an example 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.
| Title | Defaults to the text of the first heading in the 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 post or the page. Can be ’Yes’ or ’No’. Defaults to ’Yes’ for 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 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 post in the file’s metadata or using the file’s path. |
| Thumbnail | Defaults to the largest image in the 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 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 posts. |
You can also define your own metadata for use in your template.
You can use a comment at the start of an HTML file to specify metadata.
<!--
Date: May 22nd, 2022
Link: /metadata
-->
The comment containing metadata in an HTML file
<b>must</b> start on the file's first line.
You can also use YAML front matter to declare the metadata for your post. For example:
--- Date: May 22nd, 2022 Link: Apple --- Blot is able to extract the metadata from this post too.