Questions

We plan to add support for merging multiple files into a single post on Blot. My question for you is, what should the syntax be? We need to indicate that a subfolder's files should be merged into a post, rather than become individual posts. Let's say you have a folder full of pictures of your trip to Italy. How should you indicate that instead of individual posts, per image, they should be merged into a single post automatically? A few options which come to mind: (Pictures from Italy) Pictures from Italy (album) Pictures from Italy -- -Pictures from Italy- {Pictures from Italy} Pictures from Italy.post Pictures from Italy > Pictures from Italy @\Pictures from Italy #Pictures from Italy # Pictures from Italy Pictures from Italy & Pictures from Italy + + Pictures from Italy A few constraints: use safe, cross-platform characters make the resulting folder good to look at make it non-language specific if possible (i.e. don't depend on english words) There's more information about multi-file posts on GitHub, but please feel free to share your thoughts here on there. I'm writing the underlying code required for the feature at the moment, and the syntax can be adjusted down the line before release.

Hi! I'm having an issue where my Open Graph meta tags are causing problems with link previews on Slack (and others) due to a protocol mismatch? Currently, my {{{absoluteURL}}} template variable is generating HTTP URLs (like http://mysite.com/blog/post), but my images are served over HTTPS. I think this is preventing Slack from displaying link previews, though they work fine on other platforms like iOS Messages. Not sure why. Is there a way to configure my blog so that {{{absoluteURL}}} outputs HTTPS URLs instead of HTTP? I've looked through the settings but can't find a site URL or domain configuration option. My site is accessible via HTTPS, so I'd like the template variables to reflect that. Thanks!

Has anyone figured out a way to synchronize posts with an email distribution platform like Beehiv, Ghost, or Buttondown? I'm currently copying and pasting posts into Substack (and looking to move away from Substack in the near future) which is a bit tedious.

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

As the question says, I don't use these previews and would like to turn them off. My Drafts folder has ~75 files in it at any one time and it's hard to find the things I want when editing/publishing from my phone (which I do more frequently than I'd like). On the desktop I filter them out, but on mobile it's a bit frustrating. Any tips (if turning the feature off isn't possible)?

I'm trying to add a simple animation to page content when it loads, targeting the class main. This works all well and good but it disrupts the image zoom overlay (the images don't display in the lightbox). Is there any way to target this div but ignore the native zoom effect? I don't know much about the zoom effect stuff but wondering if there's a way. .main { opacity: 0; transform: translateY(10px); animation: fadeInMoveUp 0.3s ease-out forwards; } @keyframes fadeInMoveUp { to { opacity: 1; transform: translateY(0); } }

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?

I was trying out the draft functionality and I noticed that the HTML page that gets added to the Drafts folder is just an iframe that pulls in http://[my site name].blot.im/draft/view/Drafts/[the file name]. And if I open a private browsing window and enter that URL I can see the draft on the public internet. That means that anyone could guess or bruteforce their way to reading my drafts. That seems... not ideal? And definitely makes me wary of storing drafts in the Drafts folder unless I'm just about to publish them.

I posted a photo on my blog. I noticed it set the time to 12:00 am, even though that wasn't the timestamp on the photo. How do I set the time on a jpg? Also can I add a tag to this photo? Thank you!

This is a recurring problems from our site. I need help to delete this page. Somehow when I edited existing .md files, the older version of its page on the site remain and other new page will be created (in this case this page). Is there something on the code that I can check?

Is it possible to make the layout of my "photos" page into a gallery view similar to this example, instead of displaying it as a text list? For context, I currently use a tag to generate a page of all photos. Did I set this up correctly, or is there a better way to achieve a gallery layout?

Can you use metadata fields in Google Docs? I cannot seem to get it to work.

Is there any documentation that outlines the fundamental architecture behind the various sync options? While I’ve found setup guides for each method, I’m particularly interested in understanding how each one works under the hood. My goal is to select a sync method that best fits my needs while also being as straightforward and reliable as possible from your perspective. Of all the supported sync methods, which are considered the most robust and low-maintenance?

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.

Is there something I could put into the markdown of an entry to get the Updated date for that entry? I know I could maintain a date in the metadata, but I was wonder if there is some tag or whatever I could use to have that date automatically set with the last save date of the markdown file.

I am really trying to leverage the use of my markdown files across multiple applications without duplicating them. For that reason, I want to use Blot and the Notebooks app (by Alfons Schmid) on the same folder of markdown files in my iCloud Drive based Obsidian vault. The issue I anticipate is that Notebooks creates a plist file in the folder, and I don't want that file published or uploaded to Blot's servers. Normally, I can exclude a file with an underscore; I can prevent it from being published by applying "Draft: True" in YAML. But neither of these options are available with the plist file. In the past, I have used Blot.im's GIT option and I could create an exceptions list to exclude plist files, but I'd like to try using the (relatively) new iCloud Drive option. Can anyone tell me (a) if I can prevent the plist file from being uploaded and (b) if uploaded, would the plist file actually be published?

Within a post, I want to embed/add a Youtube video in such a way that it can be played right in the post, without going to Youtube. Please let me know how to achieve this. Thank you! I'm using a forked Blog template.