Questions

Any one using tinylytics.app with the Kudos option enabled? I am sure in my index or entries file its in the wrong place (Magazine) but tried it in several locations. To show one kudos button on the page create an element on the page with a class of .tinylytics_kudos. That allows the script to locate it and show a relevant kudos button and count. Here is a good example of what it should like: <button class="tinylytics_kudos"></button> To show multiple kudos buttons on the same page, for example on an index page full of posts, use similar markup as above, with a few tweaks. <button class="tinylytics_kudos" data-path="/the-path/to/your-post" ></button> Note the extra data-path="" attribute. If you set this, it will make sure to only grab the correct Kudos count for the path you entered here. If you leave this out, it'll use the current page path: just like the single kudos button above. Note that paths need to be correct and prepended with a forward slash (if none is set): "/". If you leave it out, then kudos might not be recorded correctly.

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?

I'd like to include the lastmod field in my sitemap – how should I go about adding this?

Below is a screenshot of my Dashboard Posts page showing a phantom post (the first one). The post was previously scheduled, but I moved it to drafts to work on it more. It was never published and it isn't in dropbox as you can see on the left of the below screenshot.

Hi, I'm looking to move the overview of posts to a subpath (/photos) and have a custom page act as the landing page. I'm using a (minimal) fork of the portfolio theme, but I'm happy to change if that's necessary. I can't find any rewrite rules or anything of the sort, and while I can create a custom page to hide the native index (posts overview) page, I don't know how to then resurface it in under a custom path. Thanks!

I'd love to use blotcdn for all my images for its convenience, but I find it extremely slow and unstable to access in mainland China if internet proxy not used. Therefore, I have to host all my images on a domestic cloud server, and embed them one by one in separate markdown files. For each individual post/entry, it works fine. However, the Portfolio template I'm using, still generates thumbnails from the embedded images and host them on blotcdn for the homepage and archives. I checked the fitted-grid.html file and tried to modify the and but have no idea what property should I refer to. Is there a way to use the original images from my cloud server for all the pages (homepage, archives, etc.)?

After intermitent recovery following last month's outages, now my home page is now stuck five days behind my site's content. For something that used to be rock-solid, I'm starting to have doubts about Blot's stability.

Is there a way what I post on Mastodon can become a blog post on blot.im? And the other way round: is there a way to automatically post by blot posts onto Mastodon?

There are several videos that differ in time, size, bitrate, and some do not appear in the post, even if you upload them separately, they are all under 20mb. I can't find a pattern. Google Drive platform. Maybe there are limits on some video parameters?

I'm setting up a page for specific posts based on a tag. This works well using {{all_entries}} and using {{#tagged.topic}} as a filter but pagination no longer works. Pagination would also be useful for /tagged/ pages because they're getting long. Would it be possible to support this? Thanks! Ray

Hey there, I'm currently not able to post anything through git. I also can't change my pages. Everything pushes normally, but nothings shows up in blot. Is anyone else seeing this?

I've added an example Org file to my blog only to see that it's detected as a file, and not as a post. The file's contents are just: This is a test. /Woo-hoo./

Maybe there is a way to name the months personally, by manually entering new names for each month. Or immediately change the language in which the names of the months are displayed in the posts, without changing the format. If possible, I am interested in both options. I understand that it should be done in script.js, but I don't know what to add and on which line. Tell me please.

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.

About 12 hours ago, when trying to open any template for editing, an error appears: "Error: Error rendering /template-editor/preview.html: Unclosed section "tags" at 7088" After duplicating other templates, the result is the same. This is with all templates. The site is working, and the template preview is working too.

I am using the Magazine template and writing my posts in Google Docs. However, I cannot get any images to show in published posts, irrespective of whether I embed them in the doc itself or use Markdown (which I suspect isn't fully supported by Google Docs). I could write my posts in Notepad for Windows but again, I suspect that when uploaded to Google Docs it will mess things up. Any advice on how I can get images to display without giving up the convenience of Google Docs? Regards, Roger.

Hi! I've setup Cusdis comments on my blog by adding their widget in my entry.html file. I have a standalone page that acts as a landing page for a newsletter of this blog and I'd like the comments to be hidden on this page. I've tried declaring "Comments: no" in that page's metadata, but it didn't work. Is there a way to have Cusdis be understood by the markdown metadata?

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.

Not a developer, programmer or anything, but I thought something may be possible if I'm not misunderstanding how Blot works or missing anything... Since everything is public as rendered from the template on the server, could it be possible to use a system of conditional templates or template-based functions based on metadata of the file to restrict access to a page or show context-depending data (like user information)? I mean, coding a script with a call to some authorization service or similar API in a template, a script that would be conditionally used either as part of a page included in another template or doing something like having a template for a whole page to show only private content, that would be used depending on the presence of some metadata or not used if such metadata is not present? For example, using a whole-page template or part of a template for conditional/private information to be shown as part of the rendered page if an "access" metadata field is not false or has a certain value. Would it be possible? Would whatever is rendering the template receive data from an API and could it be done in a secure way (like with an HTTP-only cookie restricted to the same domain if hosting the API on a subdomain), without anything being exposed in any way? Or is it impossible or insecure?