Questions

Is there a different template for pages? I'm seeing a partial double-footer on Pages, but not on Entries/Blogs posts. In the screenshot, the horizontal rules and the Kofi image are part of footer.html. On post pages only, the hr / and Kofi logo show up twice, but not the rest of the footer. Dropbox to screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/8u4f1w9rjnnn3wq/_double-footer.png?dl=1

Is there any way to embed an MP4? When I do this it just shows a static image that does not play?

Hello – where can I play with templates and are there 3rd party templates that are free or pay?

I was wondering how I can stop quotes from merging onto one line. For example in markdown I have > one line > a separate line But it renders on blot as > one one a separate line Is there a simple way to prevent/override this?

On another blot site I am working on it'll be a hybrid digital garden/blog. Since some pages and posts will be updated over time, is there a way to show the last modified/updated date instead of creation date? I could change the date metadata but it would move the post around due to how Blot displays posts in reverse chronological order. I'd rather leave it wherever it is and just show updated dates whenever folks browse it.

Anyone know if any cross-posting is possible to other sites like BlueSky or Mastodon? I see that Micro.Blog just added the ability to cross-post to BlueSky.

If I have tags that contain chars like å,ä,ö should they work, i.e. if I click on the tags should I see a list with posts? The reason I ask is that when I click on an "ascii tag", I get a list of posts with this tag. But if I click on a tag like "väder" then no entries are listed - not even the post with the tag I clicked on. Is this a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Hello Blotters It appears that the Markdown parser on blot.im is not parsing emoji delimiters, even though I believe they are supported by the Markdown syntax. Emoji delimiters are represented by colons and are used to insert emojis into a document. For example, :smile: should render a smiling emoji. I am wondering if you're using the correct emoji delimiter. Do I need to install a library in my HTML to fix this issue? I am not sure how to proceed and would appreciate some guidance in resolving this little challenge. Many thanks!

I'm using the default magazine template, and am wondering how it choses which tags to show in the left-hand menu. It seems like it's limited to 5 – is it the first 5 that are used in posts, or the top 5 most frequently used? I'm wondering how to change them. Thanks! :)

I'm gonna start building my own template for Blot. I've read through the developer docs and it mentions that one can have the template file locally in their Blot folder. The documentation doesn't say what that folder should be called in order for Blot to "see" it though? Does Blot even care? Or is it clever enough to recognise a template in the Blot folder and make it available for use in the dashboard? Thanks.

So I have a markdown file where I want to show some recent entries at the end. According to the reference, this should work: {{#recent_entries}} <p><a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a><br> {{#date}}<span itemprop="datePublished" content="{{dateStamp}}">{{date}}</span>{{/date}}</p> {{/recent_entries}} But it doesn't, unfortunately. I just get a blank space where the recent entries should be. :( Also, the reference says it shows the 30 most recent posts. That's too many for my needs. Is there a way to limit that to 5? Thanks!

I've set up pages as explained, in a Pages folder, but the titles are not the file names, but rather the first sentence of the files, like a post excerpt.

How does the magazine template determine when/which image to show in an entry's listing? Many of my posts have images, but only some appear to the right of the listing on the main page, and I can't figure out what factor determines when an image is pulled there.

I'm currently quite happy with the structure of my entries.html. Except for one thing. I would like the "intro" of that page to be easily editable. Right now, it's hard-coded in html, and I was wondering if I could insert a markdown file instead. I've tried to add {{> intro.md}} in the entries.html file. But it does not render the markdown, it treats is as a plain text.

You say that the summary: "Defaults to the text of the first sentence of the first paragraph in the file." If the first paragraph is shorter than the maximum summary length, then the summary is continuing after the first paragraph. I would like to use the Magazine template and craft summaries that fit in the available space, so have a paragraph break after my summary.

I'm trying to link to a new blog post in a post on LinkedIn. For some reason, LinkedIn is saying it can't generate the preview. I've checked the blog post in LinkedIn Post Inspector to get specific details but it's just saying 'We encountered a server error while trying to inspect the URL.' I checked with a post that has previously previewed fine in LinkedIn and that is also coming up with the error now, so I'm thinking something might have changed with the server rather than it being specific to the post I'm linking to.

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.

Any plans to support 2FA for account login, either via OTP or Yubikey?

Is there any way to know how many people have subscribed to my site’s RSS feed?

I know there's a question about time formats in the list below, I had something similar about date formats. When I've forked both Magazine and Blog templates there's a pull-down option to change the date format to Day/Month/Year, but the dates as shown on screen for each individual post always remain Month/Day/Year.