Questions

I created a post and now it is not getting removed from my blog even though the file has been deleted.

I had initially connected by Google Drive. I have now connected it to Dropbox. But it is still the same problem. How do I delete the post?

Interestingly, this post was created for one of my blogs. It somehow is being duplicated to my second blog, where it was never there as a file.

Can I create multiple pages, have a blog at parts and use other templates in other areas? thanks!

At the moment a citation of the form [@reference] renders as Author (YYYY) but i would prefer to have it as (Author YYYY). Is there a way to do this?

There is no pages folder in my Google Drive that connects to my links on the website. How do I go about adding that so I can add content to the various links.

Can each link have a different template?

How difficult would it be to have this feature? When I enter [@citation] in my post, the resultant text is a link within the page that sends you down to the bibliography.

On the templates page of the dashboard – what does 'fork' mean under each template?

I would like my blot website to be one of the first hits when someone searches <my name>, or <my name my profession>, but i don't want the domain to be my_name.com or stuff like this.

Any advice on how to make this more likely (besides putting my name on a lot of pages)? perhaps some config file or something

I would like to have comments under my blogs, but i am not quite ready to pay $5/mo or more for this feature. Is there any plan in supporting a free comment feature?

How do I get markdown to display an image caption?

I would like for display formulas to float at the centre of the column, rather than stick to the left. Is there an easy fix for this?

I am using the Magazine template of which I love the Bignotes. But I would also like the footnotes to be visible at the bottom of the page. Is this possible? Thanks in advance

Is there a way to add a members-only paywall for a Blot blog?

Thanks!

Hani

I’m using the Magazine template but many of my titles now appear with hyphenated words on the main page. Is there a way to stop this from happening? Thanks in advance

I'd like to change the width of PDF iframe embeds – would it be possible to add a class to these so I can target them?

I am madly in love with the bibliography function. It actually was, what made me move to Blot – seriously, you made this scientist very, very happy, good bye self-hosted Jekyll.

I would love to, however, move the generated bibliography within the page. My citations can get somewhat ... excessive. So I'd like to move them, within the "Blog" template, after Date, Tags, and Backlinks, and style them the same way those are. For that, I'd need somehow access to the generated HTML. Is that possible?

Is there any simple way to implement a WebFinger with Blot? I tried to upload a JSON file, and it is served by Blot (https://lev.lc/webfinger.json), but I can't figure out how to assign it to a proper "/.well-known/webfinger" path. If you wonder why anyone needs that, it looks like an easy yet "hacky" way to use your own domain with Mastodon

We plan to add support for merging multiple files into a single post on Blot.

My question for you is, what should the syntax be?

We need to indicate that a subfolder's files should be merged into a post, rather than become individual posts.

Let's say you have a folder full of pictures of your trip to Italy. How should you indicate that instead of individual posts, per image, they should be merged into a single post automatically? A few options which come to mind:

• (Pictures from Italy)
• Pictures from Italy (album)
• Pictures from Italy --
• -Pictures from Italy-
• {Pictures from Italy}
• Pictures from Italy.post
• Pictures from Italy >
• Pictures from Italy
• @\Pictures from Italy
• #Pictures from Italy
• # Pictures from Italy
• Pictures from Italy &
• Pictures from Italy +
• + Pictures from Italy

A few constraints:

• use safe, cross-platform characters
• make the resulting folder good to look at
• make it non-language specific if possible (i.e. don't depend on english words)

There's more information about multi-file posts on GitHub, but please feel free to share your thoughts here on there. I'm writing the underlying code required for the feature at the moment, and the syntax can be adjusted down the line before release.

What exactly does the ‘Cache and Optimize Images’ option do in settings? Is that caching images fetched from other servers, or doing something with the images from Dropbox on Blot’s own CDN?

I was wondering if it would be possible to use the 'Blog' template for most of my website, whilst also having some pages on my website using the 'Portfolio' template. Is this possible? How can it be done if so?

I am trying to have a main page and want the date completely gone. How do I do it for a post?