Questions
Making a piece of custom metadata act like a tag?
I create a new post for concerts I attend. Currently, I include the venue name as a piece of custom metadata. I would like for this piece of metadata to be clickable, to show all other posts that were “tagged” with that specific venue. I could add the venue as its own tag, but then it would be displayed with the other tags, and I would like it displayed separately. But, when I display the venue in its own metadata section, then I can’t retain the functionality of the normal tags. Any way to accomplish this or something like this?
Disable backlinks for Pages, but keep them for Posts?
I have an "about" Page, and a Post that links to it. At the bottom of the "about" Page, there is the Links here/backlinks section that appears at the bottom of regular Posts. I’d like to disable this for Pages, but keep it for Posts. I had a look through the entry.html template, and I can see the section that adds backlinks right above the section that adds pagination. Pagination is not shown on Pages, but backlinks are, but to my untrained eye, I don't see a difference between the way the sections for backlinks/pagination are set up in the template.
Order of Pages
Morning, You used to be able to reorder the pages on the navigation link through settings, but that seems to have disappeared since the redesign of Blot.im... unless I'm going nuts! Is this still an option?
How to turn a folder of pictures into a post?
Is there a way to turn a folder of images into a post instead of having each one show up one by one?
Use relative dates on a specific page?
I'm creating a custom archives.html of sorts. When using {{date}}, is there any way to get it to display as relative? I'd only like to do so on this one specific page.
Has the status page been decommissioned?
I went to check the status page because my site stopped refreshing content from Dropbox. It appears the page is no longer operational ("Last check: July 11, 2024") Is the status page no longer being updated? Are there other better channels for troubleshooting a site? (edit: Just wanted to add that Dropbox status page is reporting all systems up as of the time of this question.)
Does Blot handle [[wikilinks]]?
I plan on testing this myself later, but while I'm away from my desk... Can Blot handle wikilinks? It would make it a great companion for e.g. Obsidian.
Google Drive access issue
Blot prompted me to reconnect my Google Drive, but when I attempt that I get "This app is blocked: This app tried to access sensitive info in your Google Account. To keep your account safe, Google blocked this access." This appears to be an issue with Blot's security. I've tried to set up an app password via Google but this does not appear to work, either.
Is there a way to create a widget to my blog's feed on the homepage?
I've created a new homepage and would like to show the 3 latest posts from the blog on a section of the homepage. Is there a way to write some code to do this? Thanks!
Bug with new PayPal subscriptions
The error reads: "Stripe: I require argument "customerId", but I got: undefined" I also raised this via support email but not sure which one is checked more often?
How to activate a Template?
I have downloaded a few of the templates and unzipped them and, one at a time, dropped them in the Templates folder of my Blot folder but it seems to have no effect. Is there a way to enable or activate a template?
link format ignores settings
I can't seem to make bolt use the filename (both {{name}} or {{name-without-extension}}) as default link — it keeps processing the file title. My folder has markdown files with yaml front-matter titles, I wish to use title: for page metadata, but I don't want the longer URLs or filling the parameters for link: for every file. Is this a bug? I tried to reset the folder - it didn't work.
Analytics proxy?
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.
editing source for site template ux issue
Blot's new UX is gorgeous, but it became painfully hard to edit a template's source code, as the preview images on the left render in several different sizes and push the rest of the screen far-right.
Add description to tag?
Is there a way to add a description to a tag so that when viewing domain.com/tagged/tagname a block of text could be included?
Editing a template locally
I am unsure what happens if I switch over to editing a template locally. Will the active and current version of the template be saved in a folder on Dropbox (which I am using for my entries and pages)? And what if I, at one point, want to switch back to online editing?
inside code block isn't being encoded
If I put an e.g. literal string inside a code fence: myString.replace(" ", "") That renders literally as a space, so I need to manually encode the ampersand  : myString.replace(" ", "") Then Blot actually renders encoded characters vs a literal non-breaking space. Perhaps it's an issue of properly handling ampersands?
Komments integration?
I'm thinking of switching from Commento to Komments to save money. For now that would mean having to create a Komments URL for each post by hand. Is there a chance you might integrate it as an additional options for comments, so that every new post would automatically create a corresponding Komments URL? Apparently that should be possible via the API.