Questions

I’ve included tags in my post’s file name.

Do you happen to have the layouts.txt file from the demo video available to share? I’d like to get an idea of all the different formatting options available and figured that would be the perfect reference.

Hi! Is there any recommended way to display multiple images in a single post alongside text, either as a carousel (e.g. Lightweight image slider) or as a masonry layout (e.g. PhotoSwipe or Masonry)?

I’ve already forked the diary template and tried to create a new html file for this “Blog” page. But this new blog.html file does not show anywhere on the published site. I would like to display a link to this page inside the header.

My understanding is that it has to do with the views in the package.json file, but I’d like to learn more about the best way to implement this properly.

Is there a way to display the number of posts in a tagged article list or the archive? Something like “Archive (182)” and “Tagged ‘news’ (34)”? Thanks!

I’m currently using the diary template and would like to make a few adjustments to the structure of the website.

Filtering content on certain pages

Right now, all the posts (or entries) appear in the home page.

I’d like to create a kind metadata for each entry with either blog or work as possible values. So that only the entries with kind = work would appear on the home page, and the entries with kind = blog would be on a dedicated page called (drumroll…) “Blog”.

Note that I don’t want to use the tags to achieve this result. Entries in blog and work could share some common tags. Hence the need for an additional kind metadata.

Different page rendering depending on the kind of entry

Last but not least, I was wondering if there was an easy way to differentiate the layout of each entry page. For instance, all kind = blog entries could have a dark background or a “Subscribe to newsletter” button at the bottom. Things like that.

In the header of the Diary template, the tags that appear next to the title: Are these automatically every tag on the site? Is there any way to edit which tags/categories appear in this space? Or have nothing appear there?

This is the most trivial thing, however, I have a homepage set with the metadata: Permalink: /and no matter whether or not I include (blank) Title: metadata, the page’s title (in a browser tab) displays as ‘- [Site Title]’.

All my other pages display as ‘[Page Title] - [Site Title]’, so I get that this is the page looking for a page title, not finding one, but leaving in the hyphen delimiter. Is there a way to stop it doing that, and just display the [Site Title]?

I can do it site wide by taking the ‘>’ out of this line in head.html: <title>{{> title}}</title>, but that makes the title of every other page look weird.

Any and all suggestions appreciated.

I’m asking if you can help me about the Rosa template that was previously used by default onto Blot. I’d like to use that one in my brand new blog, how do I do it?

Dear friends who know more about JavaScript than me, do you think I can do this on my Blot site without a) breaking things; b) taxing Blot in some burdensome way?

I have display popular_tags on my home page. I want to limit it to the top 10 or 15 most popular tags. How can I do that?

I want to have a curated list of topics on the main menu. I can do this using tags (by putting the tagged url in the menu), but this doesn’t allow me to have a custom introductory text for each tag.

Say I want to put Coffee and Cities on my menu. I want to write something about coffee in general, followed by a list of all posts tagged coffee. Ditto, for Cities. The introductory text is different for the two topics, so I can’t just put it in tagged.html

Will be grateful for tips that’ll help me achieve this. Thanks.

Is there an easy way to change the displayed date format to something else? I use the Essay template.

I would like to have yyyy-MM-dd, as in 2021-06-20 for today’s date.

Is it possible to display posts by tags or a single category per post, so that I could have an archive with headings, something like this:

Apples

This is a post title, January 1st 2021

An earlier post, December 20th, 2020

Oranges

My latest post about oranges, June 5th, 2021 …

I’ve put text-decoration: none in most places where the anchor “a” is defined in the style.css file of the Diary template; but it still won’t go away. What should I change to make a global change such that none of the hyperlinks are underlined?

Is it possible to embed a Soundcloud song into a blog post?

When sharing links to my website on social media, how can I get thumbnails to show up?

Hi! Is there a way to sort entries by modified date, or by some custom numeric metadata field in posts?

For example, if I have something like:

        {{#allEntries}}
        {{#tagged.Home}}
        <li><a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a></li>
        {{/tagged.Home}}
        {{/allEntries}}

Can I specify the order in which these entries appear? Even the ability to sort by modified date might be enough, since I can “touch” each file to put them in the correct order.

Thank you!

I’m seeing a new best practice around regarding Content Security Policy (CSP): any solution planned in Blot regarding this or is an individual implementation to consider, like analytics? Thanks!

How do you personally handle Drafts, Images, Files, etc., in terms of workflow?

I’m thinking of the following:

• /Drafts (initiate all writing here prior to sliding into /Posts or /Pages for publication)
• /Files (other than images)
• /Images (all images and graphics)
• /Pages
• /Posts
• /Templates

Do you personally underscore Folders or individual files?