Questions

I feel like Blot is capable of serving as place where I can both create blog entries and register notes. The first ones are more structured, and the second ones are the kind of things I've been using Obsidian to write.

This being said, I wonder if there is a way, using template tags or any other Blot feature I'm still unfamiliarized with, to completely hide my posts tagged as #notes from the homepage, while still being able to access a list of them separately, by, say, clicking mysite.com/notes/ in the menu. What I'd like to achieve by doing this is to have a mix of digital garden/ wiki/ blog in the same site.

Am I aiming too high? Thanks for any help.

Apologies if it's been asked but are there (or can there be?) dedicated RSS feeds per tag? It would be nice to have these split out to triage posts out to different services automatically.

My posts used to have timezones (“EDT”, “EST”, etc.) in the timestamps, but now they're all UTC. How can I make Blot recognize timezone (“z”) again? Thank you.

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

When I tried to push a file to Blot using Git, I encountered the following : HTTP 413 Error despite reasonable file sizes:

  git commit -m "changes"
  git push
  shell: /usr/bin/bash -e {0}
  env:
    BLOT_REPO_NAME: ***
    BLOT_REPO_URL: ***
    BLOT_USER_EMAIL: ***
    BLOT_USER_NAME: ***
[master 8ba9cc2] changes
 5 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 assets/_L1000146.jpg
 create mode 100644 assets/_L1000189.jpg
 create mode 100644 assets/_L1000205.jpg
 create mode 100644 assets/_L1000213.jpg
error: RPC failed; HTTP 413 curl 22 The requested URL returned error: 413

I thought the files might be too large, so I checked their sizes, but they weren't excessively big:

-rw-r--r--@ 1 xxx  staff  354982  9 11 22:32 _L1000137.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 xxx  staff  837096  9 11 22:32 _L1000146.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 xxx  staff  626368  9 11 22:32 _L1000189.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 xxx  staff  585994  9 11 22:32 _L1000205.jpg
-rw-r--r--@ 1 xxx  staff  502986  9 11 22:32 _L1000213.jpg

Is there any workaround for this issue?

Hi! I'm a student and would like to publish the full text of my master's dissertation in a dedicated web page with its own address. I'd like to implement a few features to improve the reading experience (like a fixed side menu with chapters and sections, specific styles for tables, etc).

I currently have a Blot blog hosted at blog.rodolfoalmeida.info, but I'd like the dissertation page to have its own template. Is there anyway that I can achieve this through Blot while still having just one single blog subscription?

Thanks in advance! Rodolfo

Is it possible to have slides of images in a post? I use magazine template

I've been updating my blog - mostly just photos, and noticed that changes I've been making to my dropbox haven't been properly reflected.

I've done the reset Dropbox options, all of them from resync to clearing cache, but doesn't appear to be working.

Like [Main Tag] [Sub Tag] 2023 > 09 > 20 > My Scheduled Blog Post with Folder Tags.md ?

I can't for the life of me get anything to appear on the home page. I added a new page with some custom content and set the link to / but it's still blank.

For reference, I forked the blog template, changed some colors and started using it. I'm not sure if the homepage was blank before then because I hadn't uploaded any pages yet. Might be worth noting that the home page doesn't have the colors of the template either. The search page also doesn't have the right colors, but the archive page does.

Is there some sort of delay in between making posts / changing template and the homepage updating?

I've noticed that some pages seem to be stuck in the cache

I was just looking to see if there's been an update on the potential improvements to search, but it seems that the search field on this site is broken.

If I search for any query, nothing happens. I've tried in Safari, Firefox and Edge on MacOS Ventura 13.5.2.

I'm new to Blot and noticed that the search feature returns no results when querying non-Latin scripts (e.g. CJK characters) even though the query exists in the blog posts.

I'm vaguely aware the issue stems from the fact that the search feature only matches results wrapped in spaces & line breaks etc. My blog posts will be mostly written in Simplified Chinese, so the search feature is rendered near useless for my blog.

I do understand that this may not be a good business decision since I assume the vast majority of blot.im users write in Latin scripts. Nevertheless, I hope you'll consider improving the search feature to accommodate languages that doesn't use spaces as delimiters.

Thank you in advance!

I want to show a YouTube video just like the Blot introduction video.

Hi! I'd like to create a page for my blog, where the button to open the page includes javascript code to make it flash red and yellow. I have the code, only I don't know how to use it to individually effect the appearance of one of the page-buttons … is there a way to achieve this through the metadata?

How do I prevent this?

Please see example on my site

I would like to modify my template to add the <meta> tags required by Open Graph. Could you provide information, articles, tips, or known issues related to correctly setting up open graph data for shared posts?

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

Using a hashtag for title, or using “Tag: ” for tags doesn't register when I source my files from Google Drive. What formatting style should we use for Google Drive?

I would like to customize my template so the home page has a couple sections that show the first 3 posts of a couple different tags.

So far I have

{{#all_entries}}
  {{#tagged.SomeTag}}
      {{title}}
    {{#tagged.SomeTag}}
{{/all_entries}}

But I'm not sure if I'm able to limit all_entries or access certain elements of the array with Mustache.

Also, is there a way to combine inverted sections? Like if I want to filter out multiple tags from all_entries?