Questions

If I have something in my YAML front matter, can I display that in my post? This does not seem to work when placed in the markdown file.

Date: September 15th, 2022
blah: Apple

{{metadata.blah}}

Is there a way to not include posts with a set tag in the RSS feed?

Is there a way to replace the site title on the top left with an image, and still have it link to the landing page?

The site is lookingout.io

Is there a way to combine two themes to have two types of posts? I’m running a blog (based on an older blog template) but I’d also like to show photos (or photo albums) akin to the Portfolio template. Is there a straightforward way to accomplish this?

Using the default blog template Metadata in my post works as expected eg. {{entry.metadata.title}}

But when looking at the homepage, the title of the post is blank?

Looks like it only fails with the blog template If I preview with all of the other templates it works

Looks like pages with the tag "Menu: no" are excluded from the search results.

Is there a way to tag them to be included in the results?

First of all, thanks so much for this wonderful tool, and your attentive service. I'm actually enjoying creating a site again.

Second, on this page I have a phantom image blog post.

I've deleted all instances of the image from my file structure, but the image nonetheless persists.

Can you please help learn how to remove it?

Cheers, Drew

Here's a weird one. I use the link (🔗) emoji in the title of my linked blog posts. But that has caused the first letter in the title of this post to be lowercase instead of uppercase. (It also has the permalink problem noted here.)

For this post I've specified the metadata to be:

---
Date: 2021-01-01 17:15
Link: the-2020-upgradies-upgrade-332
Tags: nerdery, podcasts, favorites
Author: Jarrod Blundy
--- 

but I want the permalink to follow the Link Format that I've specified in settings: /blog/{{YYYY}}/{{M}}/{{slug}}

Is there a way to it to work like that? Did I set something wrong?

Do posts automatically get an Author tag? I know you can specify Author in metadata, but I wondered if I should include that for each post or only the ones not written by me.

Related, at least in my RSS reader app, regardless of whether I include Author in the metadata, it's getting parsed as the title of the post. See here for an example where I've highlighted where the Author of the post would typically be displayed.

I update my "about me" page a push new version into GIT, but on web I still see old version of the page. How can I force refresh this page to new version?

Despite removing the file and ensuring it's gone from the Google Drive folder, I can't seem to get rid of a duplicate blog post. I've tried the "Fix your folder" option as well.

Is there a way to add a TOC only on one page, which is very long? I don't want to have it on all the pages.

Is there a way with the default blog template to add keywords to your post?

Blot connects (so far) only to Dropbox as data source. Some writing tools I work with only connect to iCloud. If I want to continue working with both, I would need a sync solution between an iCloud folder and a Dropbox folder. Does anybody know of some online services doing this?

I am trying to embed an image and I have tried linking to the image in the folder on google drive which I have named "_sociallinks" but cannot work out the correct path to link to the image. I just get a question mark icon on the page.

Any idea what path I should use?

I am using a custom template and would like to add the bigfoot.js plug in. I saw that the magazine template includes it but cannot figure out how to install it from scratch.

I have set up the google adsense to my site created by blot.im. And google said “ put the ads.txt on root directory. So I did it. And ads.txt was published as post. I want to avoid that ads.txt is published… Are there any ways to avoid that?

Thanks in advance.

I want to create a partial which just outputs a formatted entry line (like for the Search or Tagged page).

When I read the Blot doco on the template language, partials have the extension .mustache, but all existing partials in the given templates have .html as the ending.

What's the best extension to use? Does .mustache work? Or should we stick to .html?

The date_display variable works brilliantly to define how dates look in my templates. -- At the moment I set it in my package.json. Hwever, I thought there was a way to set it in the web UI too -- but I cannot find this anymore. Where is it? Thanks!