Questions

I am working on a photography based theme but I am struggling with grouping each project based on the dropbox folder they are in. I saw that the “Portfolio” theme is also ignoring the folder. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I’m in the process of redesigning my website. The idea is to create a static portfolio as a landing page, which has a link to take the user to the blog.

When I try to change the entries.html URL in the package.json file to point to another URL (E.G: /articles) the page does not load any entries. I tried to use the ?debug=true option and discovered that entries don’t get added in the returned json object.

I could use the all_entries tag, but then I will lose the pagination.

Another thing I tried is to create a new view and calling entries from there, but that didn’t work either.

Any thoughts?

I added a post and then deleted it, yet it still shows on my blog. I’ve cleared cache and tried other browsers. The post .md file is gone from the Dropbox folder, and gone from the web view of my blog folders, yet still it remains. Actually, two copies of it appear on the blog. Ideas?

Is there a way to publish a post, but not have it show up in the main feed?

It’s been over a week since I posted questions and emailed support for migrating my blog from Wordpress.

I have since begun migrating it over manually but this lack of presence of support for this long has me concerned I may have made the wrong move coming here.

Can someone please answer and at least let us know you are alive & well and still supporting this product?

Thank you, Ray

Hi folks, I’m just wondering whether anyone has a method they would recommend for embedding something like a slideshow / image carousel in a Blot post. Thanks in advance for any tips.

Would it be possible to enable HTTP/2 in Nginx configuration?

I just discovered that Commento seems to register URLs with or without trailing slashes as different posts. Is this expected behavior? Is there any way to redirect the version with the trailing slash to the version without, so comments won’t keep being split on future posts?

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 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! Ray

Is it possible to extend the Markdown parsing with our own additions?

I’ve tried a few things to see if I can affect what makes some thumbs large and some small, but haven’t figured out what the pattern might be.

One entry has a single image and its thumb is small on the front page, another entry has a single image and its thumb is large on the front page.

Hi, how can I import from my Wordpress blog into Blot that will also honor the existing permalink structure?

Thank you. Ray

I’ve tried all three of the potential settings available at https://blot.im/settings/services/permalinks, but changing the setting and saving doesn’t seem to work as I might expect. My URLs default to the standard/original “Title” option.

Ideally I’d like to have permalinks be of the format https://example.com/foldername/filename which I would expect to work if I choose the “Custom” option and use the syntax {{path-without-extension}} in the field. However, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Am I doing something wrong, or is the setting just not saving and propagating properly?

From a documentation perspective, perhaps some examples of how to chain together the tokens on https://blot.im/how/configure/urls and the expected URL outputs might also be helpful for people?

Thanks in advance for your help.

It looks like if I have some nested folders under Pages, Blot will convert and publish them all, but the URLs are flat URLs based on the title. Is there some way to get the URLs for pages to reflect the folder structure? I’ve tried {{stem}}/{{slug}} but that doesn’t seem to have any effect.

I’d like to create a link to the most recent post with a specific tag. I can use {{recent_entries}} or {{all_entries}} and filter by tag but I can’t find a way to get (or reference) only the first result.

Elsewhere I have pagination of entries working as I want so I don’t want to change local.page_size for the whole blog.

Is this possible please?

I’ve just switched to the Blog theme and like it quite a bit. Just one problem: The navigation bar isn’t completely visible on mobile & my title (which, to be fair, is too long) partially hides the content. See here. Is there any quick CSS tweak to achieve something similar to how my old theme worked, putting the title on top & the navigation links in several rows below as needed? See here to see what I mean.

I was creating a series of pages a few days ago—the first 10 worked perfectly, then things stopped updating from my dropbox sync. It looks like Dropbox is functioning fine, and I haven’t changed any of my process for adding to blot, so I’m not sure what I broke!

When I try to reset/fix my folder on https://blot.im/settings/client/fix, I get an orange error message that says “Failed to acquire folder lock.” Any advice?

Have been getting no reply from him for the past 2+ months on a technical issue, and there has been no github activity (including activity on blot) either

Just wondering if everything is okay

I’ve been getting this error when I try to sync Dropbox, change to a different client, or reset my folder, but this message in orange prevents from doing anything. Is there a fix?