Questions

After not adding any files to my sync folder for about a year, I just added one. At first I thought the problem was a Google Drive sync issue, but then I copied all of the files into a Dropbox folder and synced that folder. Just like with Google Drive, every old file synced except of the new file. This has happened both with GDrive and Dropbox. I'm flummoxed.

Hi, As a newbie... I'm somewhat confused with templates. This URL, https://blot.im/templates doesn't marry up with this URL: https://blot.im/sites//template, i.e. in relation to the list of available templates. If I select one of the templates from https://blot.im/templates and choose "Install template" nothing seems to happen (other than the page changing to https://blot.im/sites). Also what's the significance of the Templates folder on my sites? Re. the option to download a template, what's the value of that, do I place the files in the Templates directory.

Can we exceed the total number of articles per page? It is limited to 60. Or, and this would be simpler, make the home page display the following 60 articles in the same way. Thank you in advance for your reply.

Every answer has an Edit answer link that allows me, who is not the author of every answer, to edit every answer. This seems...problematic? Is this a bug or am I just confused?

Hello, I used to have my website, firsttuesdays.net, in an Apps subfolder called Blogs. That folder has now disappeared from my Dropbox. I don't see it on my desktop and I don't see it in Dropbox on the web. Yet, somehow, according to Blot, the site is located here: Dropbox>Apps>Blot>First Tuesdays, which I do not see in my Dropbox either. The site is still live, but, obviously, I'm not sure how I can post to the site or otherwise work with it if I can't find the folders. Is this a Dropbox problem or is it something on your end?

When setting up folder sync does blot only need readonly access to the share?

I currently have this block in archives.html: <div> {{#allEntries}} <a href="{{{url}}}">{{title}}</a> <span class="small">{{date}}</span> <br /> <div class="spacer8"></div> {{/allEntries}} </div> Instead of allEntries is it possible to do all entries except entries that have tag x?

This is probably an obvious question, but is there a way on the Blog template for it show to the left (or right) on a desktop screen, but at the top on mobile? The default at the moment shows the navigation to the left and it completely squeezes out the main body.

I recently set up a redirect of a tagged page to a gallery page but it doesn't seem to be working: From: /tagged/photos to: /gallery Clicking the photos tag below the post still sends me to the tagged page rather than the photo gallery I set up. How can I tweak this further to make it work? Thanks!

I started using the Mira template and I saw it had a search.html page and an archives.html page. I wanted to merge them, so I added a search field to the archives page, following all the same logic that's defined in the search page. But the search that I added to the archives page didn't actually work--the JSON data for the page doesn't contain the query parameter when I run the search from archives.html, even though the exact same code works on search.html. Does Blot have a special case for the search.html page of some sort?

On pages where multiple posts are displayed, the <h1> is the page name, e.g.: Archives, Home. Posts titled are rendered in <h2>. On a single post page, the post title is an <h1> tag and subheadings are <h2>, <h3>, etc as needed. All good so far. The issue arises when a post with subheadings is not displayed on its own page, e.g.: when shown on a page showing the ten most recent posts in full. There, the titles are rendered in <h2>, but then the subheadings are one level off. My thought was to write the headings within each post something like: {{{#singleentry}}}h2{{{/singleentry}}} {{{#multientries}}}h3{{{/multientries}}} But I am not sure what the appropriate key would be, if it exists. I had a look through the developer reference doc but didn't see something like this. Since something like this would be useful for things beyond just modifying heading levels, I feel like there must be something that will do the trick that I am simply not seeing. If there's a better way, I'm all ears!

Anyone care to share the URLs to their Blot blogs here? I know David has a few listed in examples on the front page, but I'm sure there's many more. Would love to see others to follow (and gain inspiration!)... Here's mine: Along the Ray: https://alongtheray.com

It used to be possible to edit the menu with all the links from the dashboard, but now i don't see that option anymore

Does anyone know of any templates or tools to support two different languages on the Blot website?

At the moment, Blot supports fours ways to sync a folder: Dropbox Google Drive Git iCloud We're currently working on adding others – which tools or services would you like us to support?

I see to edit the menu it's not under editing your template the website. However the section does not seem to be usable in the browser. Everything is all over the place and it's hard to click things because of odd alignments. Is there a way to edit menus when just editing a template locally?

If I search for a phrase (multiple words), the results seem to include posts with either word rather than both/all words. I would prefer the search use AND not OR by default (without something like typing "AND" in the query). Is there any way to change the behavior? Currently, the results get very "noisy" because many of the results aren't relevant. Thanks.