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I have a content which still appear after I delete the file in my GDrive folder. Previously I have explored multiple ways of making different menus to categorize my contents like "Projects" and "Notes" menu (which will have different type of contents/files). The introduction "Projects" file which I created earlier still stuck in the home page. How to delete this content or reset the template?

If I am on a blog post page with tag x, is it possible to only show items in #next that have tag x?

We have folder syncing with iCloud Drive ready to go. For new sites, you can now select iCloud on the sync setup page. How to sync an existing site with iCloud: Log in and open the folder settings page Disconnect from your current method of syncing your folder. Select iCloud You can switch an existing site over seamlessly. Blot will transfer your files across and you can pick up where you left off. Please see the documentation for the iCloud client and don't hesitate to contact us or ask a question.

Hi, Can you help? I'm new to Blot, so apologies if this is a newbie question. I've posted an image on this page: https://brokenbiscuit.blot.im/doc-photo I'm using this reference: a notebook and pen Blot is seeing the title, but not showing the image. What am I doing wrong? thanks Nigel

Hello, I'm thinking about changing the license of Blot's source code. At the moment, Blot's source code is licensed under CC0, a public domain dedication that allows unrestricted use, modification, and redistribution without attribution or copyleft obligations. I am considering switching the license to AGPLv3, a copyleft license which requires that anyone who modifies and distributes (or provides network access to) Blot must release their modifications under the same license. This shift would prevent proprietary use of Blot's code and ensure that any derivative works remain open-source. Obviously this would only apply to new contributions going forward. Why? I'm developing one-click deployable containers to make Blot simple to self-host I anticipate there will be other people offering hosting services for Blot, especially in different countries / legal jurisdictions I want to ensure these services keep their source code public Please let me know if you have any objections, thoughts or questions.

Do you support the slug/URL with folder, like the posts under journal will be rendered to https://xxx.xxx/journal/xxx?

Hi, does Blot support to use different templates for different folders? For example, to use Blog(templeate) for main/root folder, and I can create another folder for CV with CV (template)? Thank you.

I'm pretty close to what I want at https://rapidresponsechoir.org, but the index.md file with: --- Link: / --- # Rapid Response Choir seems to stuck at a date in February and I'd like the most recent posts to be listed underneath. I'm using the Magazine template. Also, how do I get consistent top banner photo across all pages? Thanks! - PeterB

I noticed that if I change the template variables in the Templates/Portfolio view (either in the code directly or in the template preview/editor), those variables will change back to default at some point in the future. I didn't measure exactly how long does it take to go back to the default, but basically every time I go back to my website and check it, the variables are default. I can instantly see it cause the main variable I'm trying to change is the "Thumbnail size". Here's my website: https://lotafak.blot.im/ Please advise! Thank you

I do I remove the phantom links in blue showing on my links pageThere is no delete option

Is there a best practice for blocking AI bots on a Blot site? I can include a robots.txt sourced from here: https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt But that's very soft step. What else might I do? I saw that Cloudflare has an AI blocking feature, but I'm not sure if I can use Cloudflare with Blot: https://blog.cloudflare.com/declaring-your-aindependence-block-ai-bots-scrapers-and-crawlers-with-a-single-click/ Any other ideas? Alex

It appears you can set the title of an image like so. I'm wondering if there could be an option to allow using the title instead of alt text for the image caption. Could be a nice convenience over putting in HTML for a caption. Or is there already a good way to set a separate caption that I'm missing?

I have my homepage set up to display my posts in full. Problem is, google crawls and indexes the home page and then links to it. Eg: my.blog/page/2 As I make new posts, the relevant post moves further down the page list, and the link goes stale. How can I get Google to link to the article itself and not the homepage? Thanks!

Hello, I have a custom date field that looks like this: update: 2015-05-12. I've seen there are ways to format dates for built-in fields. Is there a way to do so for custom fields? Alex

Hi there, I understand that I can set the "slug" metadata to change the slug to something other than a slugified version of a post's title. Is there a way to just default to using the filename? For example, if the filename is 2015-04-05.pithy-slug.md And the title is # How to write pithy slugs in 17 steps or more! I would like the slug to be pithy-slug. Alex

I have a line of HTML I need to set dynamically it may have one or two links and different wording Doing this fails, any suggestions? In the markdown page_footer: Back to <a href=/Weather>my local weather</a>. {{entry.metadata.page_footer}} Then displays as this plain text on the generated pageThe HTML shows, not a link Back to <a href=/Weather>my local weather</a>.

I've set custom metadata for one of my posts, as per this doc. In this case, it is for describing magic spells. The metadata is as follows: title: Magic Spell tags: spell date: 2023-01-16 isSpell: yes magicWord: boo Now, I want to have this custom metadata show up, only for posts where the isSpell: metadata is set to yes. So I've modified my entry.html template as follows {{#entry}} {{#metadata.isSpell}} {{metadata.magicWord}} {{/metadata.isSpell}} {{{html}}} {{/entry}} But when I go to the corresponding post, I can't see the Magic Word. I've added ?debug=true to the URL and I can see the metadata in the JSON, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here.

Say I want to post a gallery of images on a specific blot page but am not using a gallery/artsy-type template that specializes in that sort of thing. Is it possible to do this in markdown or would I have to use some type of custom CSS or another type of fancy code?

How can I check in mustache if I'm on the homepage? I want to do something different on the homepage, but the same on entries and the archive page. So using {{#entry.title}}...{{/entry.title}} doesn't help me in this case. Alex