Questions

Not sure if it's an error on my google drive sync or if I'm just going about this wrong. I've been able to navigate through pages, blot doesn't support videos does it?

I'd like to use the links to point to the contents of a folder. So if they click "NPCs" the resulting page will be all the NPCs in my NPC folder (in my synced google drive folder). Is that possible? If so, how? I can't seem to figure it out.

I'd like an external contractor to update the templates and CSS of my site to provide a new design that is beyond my capabilities to implement. How do I work with them? My ideal would be to have a locally hosted version of my site that I could collaborate with the contractor via github and PRs. Is that an option? Or something like it? I don't want to just give them the password to my Blot account and let them go to town.

Using home.txt with the following syntax: Link: / [Page 1](/Pages/page1.txt) The resultant page is shown without styles. How do I link this page to a template?

I'm having issues setting up Disqus comments on my site

Is there any simple way to implement a WebFinger with Blot? I tried to upload a JSON file, and it is served by Blot (https://lev.lc/webfinger.json), but I can't figure out how to assign it to a proper "/.well-known/webfinger" path. If you wonder why anyone needs that, it looks like an easy yet "hacky" way to use your own domain with Mastodon

I noticed that Blot replaces apostrophes with dashes when converting a title to a URL-ready slug, but only when they’re singular. For example, Apple’s Striking Short Film Ahead of International Day of People With Disabilities → https://heydingus.net/blog/2022/12/apple-s-striking-short-film-ahead-of-international-day-of-people-with-disabilities vs ‘All Consuming’ Podcast is Back → https://heydingus.net/blog/2022/12/all-consuming-podcast-is-back Would you consider making it so singular apostrophes are also ignored, as it would make the URLs more readable?

is it possible to turn off my website temporarily? I do not want to delete my account but make the site inaccessible for a limited time. Best regards Florian Guckelsberger

I seems odd to me that I can easily filter "all_entries" array with "tagged.TagName" but I can not do the same with "recent_entries." If I use the combination inside a template it will output all "TagName" tagged entries within the last 30 entries. I guess the other option is "truncate" the output, but I couldn't find how to do that in the template language reference. I understand that there is a script option, but I'm already hacking too many things on blot with scripts and it's getting dangerous (( {{#all_entries}}{{#tagged.TagName}} <<-- how to limit output ? to X entries --| <a href="{{url}}">{{title}}</a> {{#tagged.TagName}}{{/all_entries}}

I've already tried implementing javascript into my blog posts which works perfectly, but I'm curious if there's a way to also use frameworks so that we don't need to write vanilla JS all the time. Specifically I'm thinking of things like React, Svelte, or MDX. My use case is that sometimes I like having interactive components within my blog posts that may take an input from earlier up in the post and cascade the changes throughout the other components in the post.

Year ago I backed up my custom template. Thought there was an option for that, but not seeing it on the Templates page. How do I do that?

I noticed that even when I don't use pagination in my template, typing /page/1 .. /2 .. etc. produces the pages with some result (depending on what's in the template). It's not a big deal, but I wonder if there is a way to disable pagination all along? I tried to create a redirect rule "/page/(.*)" > "/" but it didn't work out either

I'm wondering if there's a simple way to hide a section from a page template if a certain metadata is specified. A bit like with Menu: No which hides a page from the navbar. I'd like to create a Hero Image: No which would disable the top image on a blog post. Your help is much appreciated :)

Wondering if anyone has figured out a way to introduce lazy loading for images? I know we can add loading="lazy" in the HTML, but I'd like a way to do it in Markdown, so I don't have to write out all the HTML for every image. When my site was based on Jekyll, I could use Kramdown and add {: loading="lazy"} after the image to add the required flag. But nothing like that exists AFAIK with Blot. Do any of you have any ideas please? I'd like to avoid introducing JS if at all possible. Thanks!

I'm new to Blot and have a question regarding font customization. I'd like to use different fonts for my blog posts (incl. blog title and body) and the title & menus of the blog. I forked an existing template but the font picker applied the new font to all the text in the blog. I dug around the source code but couldn't figure out how to achieve it.

Can I create multiple pages, have a blog at parts and use other templates in other areas? thanks!

I am sure I am just missing something easy so I am sorry for this. Using blog template with full posts, wanted the title to also be link like the date is?

The server was caught in a deathloop, failing to restart properly. this meant that everything that wasn't cached failed to load. The issue is now resolved. I'm extremely sorry, and i will properly get to your emails when i return on Monday. I'm on vacation, which I hope explains but does not excuse the delay

I'm trying to figure out a way to make a post "sticky" or have some sort of Featured post that stays at the top of my Home page, and I'm struggling. I had found a question asking this about the Blog template and it was working fine when that was the only post on my site. Now that I've added more posts, though, the Sticky post is just having a plain hyperlink of its title displayed at the top of the page rather than the full width post I was seeing before. Is there any way to do this and have it work consistently on the Magazine template?

So in my site's head I've added {{> description}} which will take the summary field from my front matter and add it to the page's HTML meta. I'm trying to create a second RSS feed that, instead of containing the entire post contents, I'd like to have the page description from the meta and a link to the post. This is so I can use Micro.blog to automatically crosspost a summary, rather than the entire (poorly formatted) post. So I've tried adding the following to my RSS file, but it isn't working: <description> <![CDATA[ {{#encodeXML}} {{{description}}} {{/encodeXML}} ]]> </description> I've also tried {{> description}} and {{{summary}}} but none are working. How do I add the page description to this RSS feed? Thanks.